The pledge of allegiance in schools is straight out of North Korea. Calling your parents 'sir' or 'ma'am' would be creepy and authoritarian here. Bathroom attendants? Fuck off. The insane cost of healthcare. Here in Australia, it's 1.5% of your income (or less/none if you're poor), which covers unlimited GP and public hospital treatment, most prescriptions are around the $10 mark (or $2 for pensioners), and I think there's an annual cap of like $2k beyond which they're free.
Guns here are for farmers and organised crime only. Nobody has one; not junkies, not road-ragers, not abusive spouses. They aren't in people's bedrooms or cars, they aren't lying around like ballpoint pens and you can't just go buy one. Nobody here fears getting shot, because to even get your hands on one, you have to be rich and well-connected and you're not going to blow that on some shitty random act of violence.
Your breakfast cereal oh my god. Marshmallows are not a fucking breakfast food. You don't have electric kettles or eggcups, you absolute weirdos. Disgusting weak burnt stewed filter coffee, and don't get me started on the grey sadness you call tea.
Treating your politicians like they're better than you, or even worthy of respect. Here we think of them like real-estate agents who've worked out how to fiddle their expense accounts. Speaking of real-estate agents: what's with the bizarre uniform jackets?
Here it's generic office-worker garb, only with a slight air of rat about it. And renting apartments... from the building? What? Here the individual units are purchased individually by residents or investors, who then rent them out independently through agents.
You've made an actual civic religion out of your government. Your constitution is its scripture, your flag its holy icon, the whitehouse its temple - and people are every bit as weird and fundamentalist about it as any church. (see also: sovereign citizens lol)
All the goddamn fonts on all your products are wrong. Useless volume measures in your recipes. Yeah, I'm going to try and mash cold butter into a measuring cup, sure. That's going to happen. Imperial weights and measures, and fahrenheit temperatures: lol
None of your roadsigns or business signs, etc, ever tell you where you are. I play a bunch of geoguessr, and it's so incredibly frustrating. Here in .au, every other business is named after the local area and it makes life vastly easier.
Nobody here cares if they see nipples on the beach; it's a beach ffs. And nobody cares if they see nipples on TV; haven't you ever been to a beach? College fraternities: what the actual fuck Cutting bits off baby genitals: again what the fuck is wrong with you.
Your insane work culture, which hilariously is coming back to bite you in the arse. Paying sweatshop wages, no mandated annual or even sick leave, even taking the leave you do get being treated as disloyalty, treating your workers like farm animals...
Bonecrusher handshakes, constant high-beams eye contact, Mister Anderson, it all comes off as insecure, frankly. Walmart greeters
The number of people who think it's absolutely fine, and an opportunity (if not an outright duty) to kill anyone in the commission of a crime, no matter how minor - and the number of people who think it's right and good for police to brutally takedown, beat, tase or even shoot people for failing to comply with 'legal orders'. Acting like Australian wildlife is particularly dangerous when you live in a country that has bears and mountain lions and fucking moose.
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