What are the "only in X country" things of your countries?

well in the capital of iceland, reykjavik, a comedian started to do campaign and end up being the city mayor XD so it's not far away from that!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/15/jon-gnarr-comedian-mayor-i...

Here are a few things that I think only exist in Germany:

• "Generally", there's no speed limit on motorways (but instead too many construction sites and limits for environmental or noise reasons, so that limitless speed actually doesn't work).
• The opposite of "etwas umfahren" (="to circuit something with a vehicle") is "etwas umfahren" (="to knock something over with a vehicle").
• As building the new Berlin airport takes a lot more time than expected, its bosses have once announced when the announcement of the announcement of the opening will be announced (currently around the middle of 2019 – perhaps).
• The constitution of the federal state Hesse has still officially got the death sentence, but it can never be applied as it is forbidden on national level.
• The term "Heimat": It describes a home where your roots are; or where you feel comfortable; or where you currently live; or where your family and friends are; or where your heart is; or where you dream to live; or or or…

Try to top this! :P

I just came upon a quite interesting video (or rather, sequence of pictures) about Russia. It's very long and the (repetitive) music will soon get on your nerves, so : 1/ switch off the sound, 2/ don't watch the whole video in a row - keep some stuff for later ! It's funny (Russian humour) and there's no Putin around, as far as I've seen. Here it goes :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP6IcIA_Ueg

Enjoy ! As they say, "ЭТУ СТРАНУ НЕ ПОБЕДИТь!!!"'

No safer situation than walking with a backpack.
Thieves can't run with a big backpack (you'd be faster ;) ) and a fishy looking local carryring a tourist's backpack would rise anyone's attention. You may have slit open your outside pockets though; so don't put anything there you wouldn't like to loose.
I was stolen at my hotel room, when I wasn't in.
They took the cash but despised the credit card. (it was not in Mexico!)

A good Soviet comedy with that music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tJPKSz6Gaw

I have an idea for our American brethren - come and VOTE! Can't understand a single black or Hispanic or woman (any color) vote for trump's trolls in November !

Short ton equals to 2000 pounds
It is roughly a metric ton if you do the math

I found this interesting. Thank you for mentioning it.
How many times people in your countries kiss? In Serbia, regular number of kisses is 3. And you can see two men kissing at formal events like wedding ceremonies, New years eve and other holidays or when they see each other after a long time, if they were godfathers, or relatives etc.

I sometimes see parents kissing their children in the mouth (on tv or Facebook). Is that a custom in your country? It was really weird when I saw it for the first time.

You are completely right.

But still, someone can misuse those pictures. I'm not saying those pictures should be forbidden, I just want to say that people should be more careful and they should protect their children.

Pierre, I'm so glad you're back. Hope you'll stay forever with us. You know a lot of people love you, don't you?

But recreating a new account won't work - you're a social tombcat, you don't hide, your comments are just like footprints...

Keep up the good work. You're translations are appreciated by many!

I've rememered one more little thing "only in Serbia" - the family tree

We have so many words for introducing our family members. For example, "aunt" can be "tetka", "strina" or "ujna" depedning on whose sister or wife she is.
Fun fact: "Tetka" was synonym for an old bat for years, but now it means "young and desirable girl, usually without her own children"
Our parents or grandparents call us "sine" (son), even if we are girls!
I can tell to my sister:"Brate, nemoj da budeš dosadna", literally "Brother, don't be so annoying". :D
Words for -in laws are a bit weird too. The father of the bride and the father of the groom call each other "prijatelj"(friend).
And so on, and so on...

In Germany, we use the funny sounding "Schwippschwager" ("Schwager" means brother-in-law, "schwipp" doesn't really mean anything) for family members not related by blood that we have no specific name for. For example, your brother-in-law's brother and sister would be called "Schwippschwager" and "Schwippschwägerin", respectively. But it's getting a little outdated.
Nowadays we use the full connection ("die Schwägerin der Nichte meines Schwagers" = "my brother-in-law's niece's sister-in-law") if we know it.

I remember a school trip to Rome where I carried all my money in a neck pouch. One of our teachers kept telling me how ridiculous that was, until he got 1,000 bucks pick-pocketed off him on the subway on the last day of our trip. :D

That's pretty smart, even if others think it look dumb it saves you the heartache of realizing you've been pick-pocketed when you were least expecting it.

I live in the US (NY to be more specific), where we use card more often than cash (I still keep cash around just in case. My reply was for when people visit Mexico, where using a card is more of a privilege than an actual necessity since only tourists, the middle class or higher have access to one.

What's wrong with cash? I pay most of my stuff in cash.

Germans say American beer is only water.

Well, most people get paid through direct deposit, meaning it sits in the bank and it's easier for us to just use our cards. Older generations still cling to paying with cash, as generations heading that way (I'm talking 40s 50s) are slowly beginning to favor card over cash, since generations younger than that are already on the card form of payment.

And yes, American beer is disgusting; I much prefer tequila (or vodka if there's no tequila) over their piss beer.

Eh, about the same. It depends on the brew you make, mine is always dark and even then I try to grind my own beans when I can. I know they hate me when I order coffee and I'm very specific about sugar, because it's too "excessive", well it wouldn't be excessive if their coffee didn't taste so gross, I'm just trying to make the best of a bad blend of coffee.

Where can I join a mushroom-hunting contest? My dad used to take me to pick mushrooms since I was 5 or 6. He was very upset sometimes because I would spot the best ones (not being tall enough is not a bad thing sometimes) :)

Have they heard about “Bud Light”? — it is distilled water they call a beer. :D

American coffee is just colored smeally water if you get it in cheap joints, but you can find a good stuff if you know how to order it :)

Yglf! I wouldn't dream of washing my tableware in such awful muck! Evidently the French and Italians are less fastidious about treatment of plates and cutlery than we Scots are.
For myself, I prefer Spanish coffee - I drink a lot of coffee in wintertime (because these days I'm in Spain during the coldest 5 or 6 months every year) and almost no coffee in summer (because I tend to be in England during the warmest 6 months of the year, and coffee there is at best marginally less awful than coffee in the USA, and at worst even worse that American coffee). I will always remember a Spanish restaurant in London where if I asked (in Spanish) for a cortado largo I would get a small cup half-filled with something even weaker than americano and a small jug of cold milk - that despite all the restaurant staff being Spaniards (in Spain I get a large expresso and hot milk). I guess they had been in London too long and picked up English ideas about coffee.

You forgot yo say that Czechs, Moravians and Slovaks equally hate the Roms.. perhaps having some reasons to. I was in Košice in 1991, little time after Berlin Wall fell, I parked my red Lada break (kind of Zhigouli) on an hotel parking for the night, and in the morning, the window was broken and everything I had left inside was stolen. Wenn I complained to the hotel receptionist, she immediately looked very scared (Western tourists were still scarce then) and said : OMG, it's the Roms. Czechoslovakian police showed up in exactly the same model of car as mine, only was it a white one. I had to declare everything that was stolen, with the value of each item in Czechoslovakian crowns (!) Of course, I never heard anything of my stuff any more. Košice is famous for its Rom area, Luník IX .

No I don't, but I was listening to it and didn't hear any sound that would be similar to ř. However, Polish people have rz, but it's not the same.

Only in Australia :)

Don't watch if you don't like spiders.

This Macca's sign

It's really not hard to find "only in Australia" content. As an immigrant to Australia it's definitely a culture shock. But to be honest, there's a lot of good stuff here that's very unique. The stereotypical weird stuff tends to happen in the outback in the Northern Territory, I haven't really seen much weird stuff in Sydney.

They eat pork and drink alcohol in bahrain too!

It's like that in England, Bolivia and Brazil too.

It does flood a bit but not too badly in Sydney so I don't know a whole lot about if people actually die from flooding. And as long as you don't piss off the kangaroos they won't hurt you, as with many animals. People sometimes try too much to interact with animals and it's their downfall. :( They also get hit by cars a lot which is harmful to both the animals and the people. The skin cancer thing is very scary. Overall, as someone who moved here with previously no desire to travel here, I very much enjoy Australia in comparison to the USA, and Sydney avoids a lot of the crap that most of the rest of the country has to deal with.

Aww, that's cute! That reminds me of a portuguese girl I met a while ago who told me that people from Portugal call people from Spain "hermanos nuestros" 😊