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I was given to understand on other internets that they were unheard of in the Commonwealth

direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Monday, 12 February 2018 00:26 (eight years ago)

My wife did not grow up in the US and said they didn't use them, just duvets with duvet covers.

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 12 February 2018 00:27 (eight years ago)

turnpikes

startled macropod (MatthewK), Monday, 12 February 2018 02:58 (eight years ago)

idgi, do non-Americans wash their duvet covers every time they change their sheets?

how to diss a peer completely (unregistered), Monday, 12 February 2018 03:13 (eight years ago)

short answer: no

trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Monday, 12 February 2018 04:14 (eight years ago)

lol change sheets, wash what’s on the bed and put it back on the bed

rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 12 February 2018 05:27 (eight years ago)

you can bother with multiple sheets if you really really care about bedroom variety

rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 12 February 2018 05:28 (eight years ago)

I have slept in beds in Australia and England and France and Norway and Scotland and Finland and New Zealand with top sheets

Haribo Hancock (sic), Monday, 12 February 2018 06:12 (eight years ago)

I've slept in an Airbnb and a hotel and mostly on a sofa in Canadia but I couldn't swear to the bedding

Haribo Hancock (sic), Monday, 12 February 2018 06:15 (eight years ago)

corndogs
chex mix
half n half
tri-tip
outdated plumbing
shower valves (seriously i HATE this)

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 February 2018 06:55 (eight years ago)

cool whip

rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 12 February 2018 07:00 (eight years ago)

miracle whip

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 February 2018 07:01 (eight years ago)

Garrett's Chicago Mix Popcorn

American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 12 February 2018 07:02 (eight years ago)

shower valves (seriously i HATE this)

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, February 12, 2018 1:55 AM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

What do other countries have instead?

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 12 February 2018 07:09 (eight years ago)

shower valves (seriously i HATE this)

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, February 12, 2018 1:55 AM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

What do other countries have instead?

― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 12 February 2018 18:09 (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Buckets

American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 12 February 2018 07:19 (eight years ago)

Manifest Destiny
Fruit Roll Ups.

Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Monday, 12 February 2018 07:22 (eight years ago)

Reese's peanut butter cups
peanut butter m&ms
peanut butter and jelly
peanut butter an marshmallow fluff

American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 12 February 2018 07:23 (eight years ago)

actually I'm not sure what you mean by a shower valve, do you mean the fact that there is a single control for both pressure and temp?

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 12 February 2018 07:24 (eight years ago)

shower valves

is this a home-owner thing or a UI thing?

Haribo Hancock (sic), Monday, 12 February 2018 07:26 (eight years ago)

x-post

Haribo Hancock (sic), Monday, 12 February 2018 07:26 (eight years ago)

that reminds me though,

104. toilets that are so full of water and also weirdly short that you have to lower yourself carefully, tensing your quads as you pause several times a second, calculating whether it's going to be safe to sit down or you'll have to fish your dong out of the way and hold it someway out of the drink for the duration

especially bad if the loo is so small that [deleted for propriety]

only an east coast problem ime but still American

Haribo Hancock (sic), Monday, 12 February 2018 07:30 (eight years ago)

Tootsie roll
California Roll
Roller Disco
Operation Rolling Thunder

Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Monday, 12 February 2018 07:33 (eight years ago)

shower valves: in bathtub showers

you have to switch the water between the shower & the bathtub. and there’s only one set of controls for both.
ie raise a lever on the bathtub faucet that switches the water to the shower & then turn on the shower

it’s weird & silly to me

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 February 2018 07:40 (eight years ago)

I think I've seen that in other continents too

Haribo Hancock (sic), Monday, 12 February 2018 07:43 (eight years ago)

it's just a "some baths have this, some baths don't" thing. like one spout or two.

Haribo Hancock (sic), Monday, 12 February 2018 07:44 (eight years ago)

only an east coast problem ime but still American

not only an east coast problem, they are like that in LA as well

Colonel Poo, Monday, 12 February 2018 07:48 (eight years ago)

maybe not the weirdly short thing, but definitely the so full of water it looks like the toilet's blocked thing

Colonel Poo, Monday, 12 February 2018 07:51 (eight years ago)

I also hate overly full toilets, seems so wasteful

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 12 February 2018 07:52 (eight years ago)

it is weird crapping into a swimming pool, but it’s cleaner in a lot of ways

rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 12 February 2018 07:54 (eight years ago)

I've pooped in LA a lot, and only EXCEEDINGLY RARELY, if at all, had to manually cradle my dick or rest it on the seat to avoid reverse-periscoping

Haribo Hancock (sic), Monday, 12 February 2018 09:01 (eight years ago)

Well

Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Monday, 12 February 2018 09:15 (eight years ago)

only an east coast problem ime but still American

i've once had this problem on the west coast! (while exceedingly jetlagged and it was one of the most scary moments ever)

Shitpost in Opposition (King Boy Pato), Monday, 12 February 2018 10:17 (eight years ago)

yeah i’m forever having to rest my giant plonker on things

reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 12 February 2018 12:09 (eight years ago)

American things?

Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 12 February 2018 12:14 (eight years ago)

-sensible, compact plonkers that don't dangle into the toilet water

how to diss a peer completely (unregistered), Monday, 12 February 2018 12:29 (eight years ago)

I'm not bragging but mine has been known to drag across the poop shelf

Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Monday, 12 February 2018 12:40 (eight years ago)

chimes with what I've heard

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 February 2018 12:57 (eight years ago)

Heh, listen to all these forigeners who sit down to poop.

pplains, Monday, 12 February 2018 14:01 (eight years ago)

Oh I didn't say that

Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Monday, 12 February 2018 14:48 (eight years ago)

900 year old flight attendants

Shitpost in Opposition (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 11:36 (eight years ago)

Scriptures in yr airplane lunch basket.

Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 16:15 (eight years ago)

Everything from the tiniest village and hamlet upwards calling itself a city.

Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 16:19 (eight years ago)

one doesn't build villages and hamlets on rock 'n' roll

mookieproof, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 16:26 (eight years ago)

It takes a city

Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 16:27 (eight years ago)

i actually searched for threads where i could put this but really it comes down to an "only in america" thing

http://rate-driver.com

F# A# (∞), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 20:28 (eight years ago)

Ha, holy shit, ∞. That site is great!

https://i.imgur.com/Jkb7jTa.png

pplains, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 20:34 (eight years ago)

Scriptures on yr fast food packaging.

Shitpost in Opposition (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 15 February 2018 21:14 (eight years ago)

Chick tracts

startled macropod (MatthewK), Thursday, 15 February 2018 21:20 (eight years ago)

Chick-Fil-A tracts

how to diss a peer completely (unregistered), Thursday, 15 February 2018 21:30 (eight years ago)

NORAID

Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 February 2018 21:34 (eight years ago)


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