Bad habits / customs of your country

[Efim45]

Americans have a bad habit of eating fast food, alas I am no different. I eat about 4 cheeseburgers once every weekend from Burger King and have McDonalds, Wendy's, or KFC for lunch on workdays.

[Grumpy Cat]

At Mcdonalds they now have a 40 piece chicken nugget meal.. Yea..

What the hell? That's considered a family pack, right?

Most McNuggets you can get here is 10. I can barely eat a 6 piece.

I'm not really as against fast food as it seems most people are. I have little issue with it. It's convenient when I'm on the go. People who eat it everyday, I cannot understand. I only eat it when I'm really hungry and in a rush, or when I'm out. That's what it's supposed to be for.

[askra]

this is very common bad habit in sardinia, easy to see along the minor roads: the traffic signs used as targets by stupid hunters

[Bloodeagle]

this is very common bad habit in sardinia, easy to see along the minor roads: the traffic signs used as targets by stupid hunters

We also have this problem. I have holes in the stop signs along my street.

[Talvi]

Graffiti, tagging, writing on the walls especially if its in a "culturally important place" like the historical old town!




Even if it "looks decent", the medieval old town is NOT where i belongs! Youve got to be really stupid to do crap like that!

[Aces High]

The average Britons lack of pride and ignorance of his own history and ancestors achievments.

I think Joe Strumer of the Clash summed it up once in an interview when he was asked if he did what he did for the benefit Joe Public.

He replied.

"I met Joe Public once....and he was a cunt"....how true.

[Wanderlust]

You're right Talvi.It shows stupidity and utter lack of respect.This Historic District seems to be so charming..Is it in Tallinn?

[Talvi]

You're right Talvi.It shows stupidity and utter lack of respect.This Historic District seems to be so charming..Is it in Tallinn?

Yeah, thats in Tallinn.


Also something else that is utterly stupid: writing/carving your name into a historical building or natural object like some caves. Nobody cares who you are and that you were here!

[Aces High]

Also something else that is utterly stupid: writing/carving your name into a historical building or natural object like some caves. Nobody cares who you are and that you were here!

That can sometimes be a good thing and add to the ambiance,like the Viking mercenaries who carved their names into the marble balcoy in Hagia Sophia church/mosque in Istanbul.

[Foxy]

Long list but like every Italian issue it is very regional:

Lombardy: asshole-ism/snobbism (they are simply asshole, it's difficult to explain, you must try)
Rome: swearing (Roman official sport), rudeness.
Tuscans: feel superior to every other people in the WORLD. Oh, what am I saying? Of the Galaxy and they blaspheme worse than Satana.
Abruzzo: talk very few, we are stubborn like mules, introvert, few expansive and can seem rude, especially with strangers/foreigners, but after all we are very tender.
Veneto: a common stereotype says that women are whore and men blaspheme.
Campania: excessively loud, victimist, disorganized.