Ask a foreigner

[LuckiLee]

I'm curious if the teens and 20 somethings (even 30+) in your country are dying their hair bright colors like they are in America?

 

[Teasel]

Yes here in the UK

 

[Sideways]

I'm curious if the teens and 20 somethings (even 30+) in your country are dying their hair bright colors like they are in America?

Here in Aus? Yes. Not a lot though.

If I had more time and money on my hands I’d join them. Electric blue? Hot pink? Pretty much anything ridiculous. As part of my recovery I’ve discovered the joy of not taking my appearance seriously at all, and it rocks! I’m wearing a pair of banana earrings to work today…because I can!!!

But the reality is that technicoloured hair takes way too much time and money. If I went down that path, I’d have funky hair for a few weeks, and then really nasty regrowth (and good intentions to get back to the hairdresser) for years.

 

[ziter]

Don’t even get me started on “half six”

We say "half six" here. It means 5:30.
You would looove counting in Danish - 75 is "femoghalvfjerds" which basically means 5 + 3½ * 20

 

[Freida]

I have metallic blue/purple/turquoise stripes in my hair LOL. I have a great gal who makes it blend in more than you would think, so people don't always see it at first. Then they stop and go --- You have all those colors!!! Always makes me kinda giggle.

 

[OliveJewel]

Question for people who live in really urban zones, big city type places (like a foreign country to me.). What do you like about it? Is it comforting to have so many people all around you? (seems like it could be a nice distraction.). Is it your preference to live there versus a place more suburban or rural?

 

[Friday]

Question for people who live in really urban zones, big city type places (like a foreign country to me.). What do you like about it? Is it comforting to have so many people all around you? (seems like it could be a nice distraction.). Is it your preference to live there versus a place more suburban or rural?

The only 2 places I live by preference are Ultra-Urban & Back of Beyond. For many of the same reasons.

Ultra Urban?
- Being able to walk anywhere I need to go, and most places I want to go.
- Immediate access to international airports & seaports, as well as train yards & private air strips, heliports, & marinas.
- Able to make as much noise as I like, 24/7/365, without bothering anyone. (Part of that are my choices in where to live. Which are usually 1st floor above retail, or several hundred up to over 1,000 years old, in both cases über sound proofed/solidly built; plus the locations of the buildings themselves, which are loud to begin with. The Quarter in NOLA, The Old City in Rome, Artists districts, Warehouse Districts, University districts, etc.).
- NEAR 24/7/365 access to almost anything & anyone; it’s like the internet IRL.
- Buying directly from butchers, bakers, candlestick makers & building relationships with them.
- Incredibly fast shipping when I am sending away for something, as the distribution hub starts where I’m at, as well as messenger service within the city itself.
- It’s incredibly easy to both disappear & to build up pockets of alliances/support.
- Top shelf universities, medical centers, libraries, museums.

I DESPISE living in the suburbs. I’ve done it. Minimum 50mikes a day, driving (HAVE to own at least one car per adult), just to get kids to school, me’self to work, necessities bought, activities gone to. Everyone is living cheek and jowl, noise isn’t tolerated, private lives are not tolerated, nosyness without closeness, commutes from hell, jacked up prices, everything inconvenient. No privacy. No community. There’s nothing I like about it.

 

[OliveJewel]

People outside of U.S. do you have American cheese (aka processed cheese) and if so do you eat it?

 

[sidptitala]

People outside of U.S. do you have American cheese (aka processed cheese) and if so do you eat it?

i have seen it in supermarkets but not for a long time (since the 90s?). it was called something like 'easy cheese', no sign of it these days

 

[Freddyt]

It;s not usually called "American" cheese, usually just processed cheese.

Same as Kraft Mac & Cheese - here in Canada its Kraft Dinner or KD. It's part of the culture here. Really. Everyone has their favorite way of prepping and eating it. Milk, no milk, cream, just butter, and in it? If it goes with cheese - its good. Some even like it with a little Ketchup........

 

[OliveJewel]

and in it? If it goes with cheese - its good.

You mean putting the processed cheese slices on the KD? Side note: strange how in the U.S. we don’t call it Kraft Dinner, I think we call it “box Mac and cheese” to differentiate from “homemade/oven Mac and cheese”

 

[Freddyt]

You mean putting the processed cheese slices on the KD? Side note: strange how in the U.S. we don’t call it Kraft Dinner, I think we call it “box Mac and cheese” to differentiate from “homemade/oven Mac and cheese”

Well... you can add to it....usally just use the powdered stuff in the box though. How you mix it - is how you like it.....