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Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of a gig that you've invested a whole lot of training in, only to realize that said gig is speeding toward complete disaster. The imminent disaster could be the result of a rather terribly entitled customer, or perhaps the very thing you're expected to repair is honestly beyond salvaging. Such a situation can occur. These electricians, plumbers, and tradespeople had their run-ins with insurmountable jobs. 

It's easy to forget just how strange the place you call home is, until you're offered that outside-in perspective. It could be something like not being aware of how comically big the serving sizes can get in America, or perhaps the differences in greeting behavior. 

Someone on AskReddit fired up a thread about various things that are common in one country, but generally unheard of in the rest of the world. The thread ends up doing a great job at highlighting how dang different the world can be outside of our respective cultural bubbles. Sometimes for better, sometimes for far worse. 

Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about the first things that Non Canadians think of when considering Canada. Things like poutine, ice hockey, and the legal drinking age of 19 seem to be some of people's ideas of Canada. Oh, also, kindness, sweet wholesome kindness. 

This fun AskReddit thread has folks sharing the most American things that'd sound completely absurd to non-Americans. It's funny how the outside perspective helps create awareness over the normalized weirdness of a particular place. Things like giant soda cups, free refills, or how Americans are afraid to call for ambulances due to the costs, are some of the things that pop up in this thread. 

Get some more fun culture content over in this Tumblr thread where cultures clashed over what lemonade is.

This Tumblr thread employs an American Gothic style of writing to highlight stereotypes --- imagined and potentially accurate --- for different places in American. The resulting descriptions are vivid and unsettling and might just chill you to the bone. It's almost like the whole place is cursed. 

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.