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People outside of the USA: What are some interesting, cool, or fascinating aspects of your country you'd like to share with the world? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (9 children)

People are racists on a town to town basis.
One of the official language isn't used in the daily life despite having the larger speaker base. People use dialect.
These dialect can vary a lot between regions or even towns.
People will be angry and rant if the train run 5 minutes late.
The biodiversity is actually bad.
You can legally urinate on a UNESCO monument.

Switzerland

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Which monument is this you speak of? :o

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (5 children)

The Zytglogge in Berne is the UNESCO monument you can urinate on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Rather amazingly, set into its outside wall on the street is a pissoir. The "Herren WC" sign is a little misleading, as there is neither WATER nor a CLOSET."

How wonderful!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is actually misinformation and misleading. The sign says "WC 'a man' pissoir". like on the picture.

My link was for the illustration.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't know what "Herren" means, but WC stands for water closet. It sounds to me like there isn't any running water or stalls.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Herren means "men". "WC" means toilets, the place, in this case. I get the pun but it's not the best one.