"The fact that so much American cheese is coloured orange surprised me."

[bluemagicrose]

So instead of doing some schoolwork due Tuesday I decided to spend my night reading this.

Oh dear lord.

Some of my favorites:

"I cannot imagine why nobody yet mentioned root beer. From a German perspective, that is the single weirdest thing to learn about, tightly followed by the taste of "grape" juice."

"4700 kinds of toothpaste."

"I was startled to

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[moerlin]

Hee! For me, a comfortable traveling speed is 160 km/h (100 mph), anything lower than that actually makes me lose my concentration after a while and makes me feel less safe, go figure. Depends on what you're used to, I guess.

We have squirrels, but the reddish variety has seen to it that there are no other species anymore. And I think I've seen 2 or 3 of them in the past year, whereas I'd see as many in a week in the States easily. I will admit to thinking they're kinda cute, and may have taken a pic or two. ;)

Yeah, let's not start on the US educational system. :D Did I mention our unis are free? ;)

I actually posted a picture of most Euro bills in comparison with dollar bills here, so yeah, much more colorful. Our currency before the Euro had differently sized and colored bills too, and I like that we actually have coins of value (up to €2, which is ~$3,20).

Heh, I'm sure a lot of the stuff we do seems silly to you guys, too! :) And hey, if there's one thing I'm thankful for, it's American cities built on a grid system. Everywhere else in the world I just get lost - never happens in the States. ;)

[bluemagicrose]

Holy crap. I would go crazy being in a car driving that fast. I'd totally be the slowest car on the road. Everyone would be shaking their fists and flicking me off.

The Euro bills kicks the dollar bills ass.

See, college can't be free here. We'd have to pay higher taxes and we can't have that. Taxes are EVIL EVIL EVIIIIIIIL so we can't do something like being able to send everyone to college. Plus, I think that's socialism. (I really hate Americans sometimes.)

Grid system. We got one thing right! :D

[moerlin]

Hee, probably. ;) It's kinda funny, we have some highways (Autobahnen) that go from e.g. Denmark to Germany or Holland to Germany, so it's kinda funny to see the Germans speed away as soon as they're "back home" and everyone else keeps their lower speeds. ;)

Much prettier, right? Your bills could at least use some color. ;)

IKR? OMG, taxes? And maybe even universal healthcare? That's so... socialist. :D

Something to be proud of, heh. :D

[roganrules]

All of our exchange students were obsessed with squirrels and took lots of pics. Our Swiss student was even obsessed with the word "squirrel" and kept repeating it for 30 minutes straight while watching squirrels play in the backyard one time. Have you ever heard the sound that a squirrel makes? I see squirrels all the time, but I only recently heard a squirrel, thanks to a video that someone took and posted on Twitter a couple months ago (I think the video was postd by one of the Starkids, but I am not sure). The sound that the squirrel made makes me love them more. :D When I was a kid, I loved to feed squirrels french fries at the park because it was cute to watch them eat and they would get so close to you in order to get the fries.

I actually kind of like American currency, but I definitely get that it would be confusing for non-Americans. I just like the history aspect (the people on the bills) and the various symbols used. For instance, I am obsessed with the fact that there are spiders on the $5 dollar bill because it is so random.