Laughs in Australian
are we talking about feet hours or meter hours?
Schaut mal, Kinder, Big Ben
To be fair germans would probably drive that long just for the pleasure of polluting the air
So do Americans.
Mr bean, is that you?
American here, I have no problem with them. There was a roundabout nearby in my city. When they unleashed it, the first driver brave enough to traverse it swerved off the road and died on the spot. It caused such a scene that the next 3 cars watching entered the wrong way and started to pile up. More cars piled up over the coming weeks, it couldn’t be taped off because the city service workers were unfortunately not Europeans and also could not traverse the labyrinth, they too piled up and died of starvation. Eventually it collapsed into a singularity under its growing weight (Americans are fat, so it was over the Chandrasekhar limit), cars add into the eternal swirl each day and emanate slowly as Hawking radiation. It’s quite beautiful to see.
How can one be too stupid to use a roundabout?
I don’t think it’s a matter of ‘can’t figure it out’ as much as ‘don’t like change’. We’ve been putting roundabouts in my shithole state and the number of people who complain about them boggles the mind. They will successfully navigate them, but they’ll whinge about it the whole time.
This happened to me just the other day as I was chauffeuring some good old boy around. Mind you he wasn’t even driving, but still had to let it be known that he disapproved. There was no traffic so I barely had to slow down to navigate the intersection and his input was “I hate these things, they just slow you down!”. I tried pointing out that if it had been a 4-way stop we would have had to stop, so it was actually faster this way. I don’t know if he was immune to logic or just unwilling to admit that something that was different than what he was used to had a benefit, but he just repeated that he hated them, so I dropped the subject.
I asked my neighbor, he said Europeans are stupid for driving in circles all day. So, that’s how.
for a country who’s core values is Car, they suck at driving
Our core value is taking necessary services and pricing them like a luxury.
Spread everything out really far, get rid of public transit, and, since everybody still needs a license to drive your expensive cars, make the driving test super easy to pass so almost everybody can drive. Boom, 1.2 passengers per car and nobody can actually drive them well.
Yep. This person gets it. The auto and gasoline industry basically ruined the environment and our culture so a few select people can make a few $$$.
Our core value isn’t Car, it’s “individual freedom, especially at the cost or inconvenience of others”. It just so happens that Car aligns pretty well with that
So interesting to me that Americans think being dependent on a car is “freedom”. Individual freedom should be the freedom to get to where you need to go with viable options to walk, bike, train, bus, tram, or drive.
To be fair the mindset that a car means freedom is also quite common in Germany too. Especially in the countryside (tbf its often required if you dont want waste a lot of time due to shitty public transportation)
I think you’re focusing too much on the “individual freedom” bit and missing the “at the cost or inconvenience of others” bit
No one can make a profit on people walking, so I dont understand how your point makes any sense.
edit: oh wait! footware and sports drink companies. OK, well, you’ve made some compelling points here. And we use small handed children to in America to make these shoes and sports drinks, right?
We rarely have other viable options. Long before most of us were born, the U.S. built an infrastructure centered around cars, sidelining other forms of transportation.
In America, owning a car is often the key to freedom of movement. So it’s no surprise people equate cars with freedom. Getting people to see how car dependency actually limits our freedom is like trying to wake someone from the Matrix.
Yeah, you can’t drive like a dangerous asshole on your way to park your full size truck based SUV across two handicap spots if you don’t have a car in the first place!
you don’t have to be smart to drive, we made sure of that.
Hey, I represent that implication!
Muh freedum to die in a raging, alcohol sparked ball of fire, metal, bone, and blood.
This was brilliant.
I’ve never seen this copypasta and I love it.
I typed it up while driving through a roundabout. It came from the hea
do germans move their cars like the flintstones or how do they manage to have fuel/battery for 74hrs?
Their cars run off centrifugal force.
There’s a few diesel cars that can reach that distance on one tank (though it requires hypermiling)
Two words: German Efficiency
I hear their gas devices are very efficient.
Gassing out your soldiers during the first deployment of chemical weapons because you forgot about the wind is less than impressive.
Since you’re in a roundabout, you just need a large funnel into the gas tank. Every time around, someone standing at the side pours a bit of fuel in while you pass, so you get a splash of fuel per lap!
As an American, I can ride my mobility scooter for 74 hours and still be in Walmart. Comprend that.
Do they have pit stops to recharge the batteries at Walmart? I would imagine there is also a burrito stand nearby
They’re not called burritos any more. They’re called Americas.
If you imply different you’ll get deported.
Can easily do this around the Arc of Triumph
You mean Arc of Trump?
Paint It Black starts playing in french
You can pick up a coffee mug with a $9.99 price tag, then be asked to pay $10.74 at the register. The German mind cannot comprehend this
Not any sane mind can comprehend this.
I can comprehend it, but I’m certainly not happy about it
sane
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🎶Insane in the taxbrain🎶
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All there is to comprehend is that the US contains states that have distinct sales tax laws.
EDIT: I was correctly reminded that sales tax legislation can vary at the county and city level as well:
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State Level: 45 states (plus Washington D.C.) have a statewide sales tax. The five states without a statewide sales tax are Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon, and Alaska (though Alaska allows local sales taxes). Each of these 46 jurisdictions has its own base sales tax law, defining what is taxable, what is exempt, and how the tax is applied.
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County Level: Many states allow counties to levy their own sales taxes, which are added on top of the state tax.
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City/Municipal Level: Even more granularly, many cities and municipalities have their own sales taxes, added on top of state and county taxes.
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Special District Level: This is where the complexity truly explodes. There are thousands of “special taxing districts” (e.g., transit districts, school districts, stadium districts, hospital districts, fire districts, etc.) that can overlap city and county lines, each adding its own fractional sales tax rate. A single street could literally have different sales tax rates on opposite sides due to these overlapping districts.
None of these a reasons the store, which posts it’s own prices and barcodes, can’t just include the total on the tag, or better yet set the price to the nearest whole number (or division of .10/.25) and take the tax out of that full amount. I know because I live in the midwest, I worked in retail/grocery store and our store piloted a test program of doing exactly that. Customers were incredibly happy and our overall sales actual went up because people who didn’t normally shop with us started to because it was easier to budget.
We got shut down by corporate beancounters who were freaking out because we were supposedly making less money. Except our sales and profits were up for the 8 weeks we demo’d the program and 4 weeks after we were forced to stop sales dropped below our year-on-year average. Literally forced to stop a program that benefited the customer and retailer because corporate greed couldn’t tolerate the customer not being screwed.
There is zero reason that can’t be on the price tag.
There isn’t zero reason, you’re just unwilling to accept the reasons.
Prices tags are normally prepared using computers which are famously good at maths. Here in the UK, England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland have different rules for tax on certain products and yet everything is advertised with the final price.
I would love tax-included pricing (or maybe VAT?), though from what I know:
TV ads, sponsorship spots, circulars all complicate this.
So does Europe.
Europe is not a country, and Germany is not a state.
Germany certainly is a state if you use the right definition.
And counties that have their own sales taxes. So not even within the state is the rate the same.
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Not only can Americans comprehend it, they actively choose for it to be this way. Macys tried to switch to straight forward pricing and it did not go well for them so they switched back to their bs sales.
Imo it would only work here if everyone does it at the same time and if it’s implemented by legislation enforcing it. If one company does it, their competitors can take advantage of the perceived differences.
I thought that was JC Penney’s
E: it was
I stopped off in Oregon once for some McDonald’s. My total ended up being $8.00 exactly and I let out a little smile and told the cashier ‘wow perfect, what are the chances’
She looked at me like I was an idiot, and I learned some things about Oregon that day.
Oregon has entered the chat
A lot of germany has deposits actually, so an extra 25-50 cents on top for cans and glass bottles
Which are only added in fine print on the price tag usually. But it’s more like 8-25 cents for cans, most plastic bottles, and some glass bottles.
neither can the Oregonian mind
You can fit 74 Germanys inside a Texas roundabout. The European mind cannot comprehend this.
You can fit 74 texases inside an Australian cattle station. They’re hilariously angry about it.
That says more about the fat-ass Texans than the Germans
I think those are called beltways
America’s been adopting roundabouts in the last decade.
Finally! People complain about them, but those people don’t understand how beneficial they are overall.
Yeah, I have a few in my Pennsyltucky town and over the years people have even learned not to stop at the yield signs!
Yielding is a woke liberal socialist concept
They put one on a rural overpass where farmers have to cross all the time where I live. Everyone I know who lives there or farms there hates it.
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If you overshoot your destination, do you have to drive another 74 hours to get back to it?
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If you turn around (going against the circle), does it go up in time?
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Why did it stop at 74? Why not infinity or 99? I can plot 79 hours from Key West Florida to Anchorage Alaska
What a neat bug.
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Don’t even have any nice landmarks on the drive, like Big Ben.
Parliament.
big ben, parliament!
I navigate by Walmarts
You’ve never heard of NASCAR. We are good at turning left for hours on end.
You’ve been turning right since at least '80…and you started far on the right already.
Hey!
Don’t forget Nixon.
Oh, please. There’s way more to NASCAR than that.
