world

It's a humbling and startling moment when you get out in the world, far outside your comfort zone, and in a foreign land with its own set of cultural norms. You never know what might be totally normally in your country, and considered absolutely bizarre in a different country. 

Redditors are sharing the things that Americans are genuinely better at than the rest of the world. This is just the kind of thread that's bound to stir up some passionate debate. Are they really accurate answers, or just Americans getting all kinds of cocky about what they're good at. 

When these Americans traveled abroad they quickly learned that behavior they saw as completely normal, was anything but that for other countries. It's crazy what we can learn from the world when we leave our homes for places unknown. Sometimes foreign countries can remind an American just how "American" they're acting. Whether that's a good thing or bad thing, varies. If you want to check out another interesting post on a clashing of cultures, check this tumblr post about grading scales from different nations here!

This mess of first world problems might be all kinds of painfully relatable! This list might help to remind you just how ridiculous some of the stuff we get worked up over, really is. It is simply NOT worth getting angry about those earphones getting tangled up, or knocking over your water glass that was conveniently located next to your bed, or how the automatic soap dispenser isn't performing its job correctly. But even then, we probably still will. 

Take this bunch of interesting and useless facts to keep your bored brain vaguely entertained on a Monday! You might just learn something, but there's no guarantees that it's actually true...

Culture yourself like never before with this makeshift Rosetta Stone for Australia. Hell we might as well start calling this, How To Speak Australian 101. 

These facts are just crazy enough to make you double take and question whether they could actually be grounded in truth. But the world is brimming with madness, and shit we just don't understand, and can't explain away. Consider the following list a solid collection that speaks to that. 

Turns out that tourist rocking the oversized tee, shorts, and a loud demeanor is just an American tourist. That, or this AskReddit thread dedicated to the ways people can tell a tourist is American, is far off the mark. 

Are these unexplained mysteries only unexplained because we haven't tried hard enough to understand them, or is something bigger afoot? You be the judge! Maybe most of these will end up getting debunked in the comments section...

This whole subreddit is basically the world telling humans to quit their bullsh*t on a brutal level. The resulting moments are satisfying on a biological response kind of level. It just feels kind of good to see arguably bad people, getting what they had coming to them. 

It's a wild world out there...

Keep it ever crazy and nonsensical in the land down under.