Funny cultural difference quotes

• So I got a call from a telemarketer, and he said he couldn’t understand me. I told him, “Press 1 for English.”

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  3 weeks ago

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• Americans be like, “MM:DD:YY” is how you say dates verbally, and then have a national holiday called “4th of July.”

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  3 weeks ago

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• It’s so unfair that saying “xd” is still socially acceptable, but only if you’re speaking Spanish.

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  1 month ago

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• “There’s a particular type of insufferability that rich people from poor countries have, that I don’t yet fully know how to verbalize.”

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  1 month ago

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• I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ — which is so much better.

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  1 month ago

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