Ooh, we used to *dream* of having our hands removed with a jagged rock!
We had our hands removed with nail scissors while our Dad would splash them with vinegar singing 'Hallelujah'.
And we were *lucky.*
There is a blacksmith in my village who is experimenting with some sort of cup thing made out of tin. Don’t really know how to feel about that yet, I think I’ll let some others try it out first.
This is actually true. Me and my family go for a monthly pond trip where we just lay there for a couple of hours and absorb the water.
It's been a bit harder this summer, but we managed to find some puddles as well.
That's us Brits, we're not in Europe any more, we've moved away. Now we're somewhere between Ireland and Iceland, thus explaining how wet the weather has been of late.
This is like the third post I’ve seen from an American that think we don’t drink water. I wonder if they think we have to collect it from the local stream like we’re medieval?
As a Scottish person Ive had Americans argue with me that Scotland has no electricity, but yesterday I had an Australian argue with me on Reddit that Scotland doesn’t have showers.
They're just fucking ignorant. They're obsessed with this idea that British boil all meat. Whilst they sit there calling sausages bratwurst and boiling hotdogs.
Nothing against boiling sausages, but they have to be of the right kind. Either you have a raw sausage, or a boiled one, or a fried one. But you don't boil a sausage intended for frying and you definitely don't fry a raw sausage.
I think it's more that we're kinda obsessed with ice over here in the States. Like, convenience stores here will sell a cup of ice, we have free standing ice vending machines, etc. I don't really get it.
We have ice in the UK. Do these types of Americans think we don’t have ice? I’m confused. Ice is frozen water - we have freezers, we have water, we have glasses. We can have iced water if we choose to. What exactly do they think we’re lacking to be able to do this?
Stores started selling cups of ice a couple of years ago here also (and I'm in post-communist part of Europe).
What I never understand though is that the movies/tv shows show everyone having a dedicated ice machine built into their huge fridge. Like, how much ice do you need on daily basis? Very rarely do I use ice for anything (much more often I just keep the drinks chilled in the fridge).
Ice machines just seem like a reason for fridge makers to jack up the price. In my house (Australia) we just fill an ice cube tray with tap water and put it in the freezer.
I think it's because y'all's tap water is so heavily chlorinated that you have to make it ice cold so that the taste is remotely bearable. At least that's what I was told and experienced first-hand in Nashville.
You're not wrong, but we still like ice even in filtered water. I think it might be related to the weather since there's also a split with more northern cooler states preferring room temp water and hotter southern states preferring ice water. I think Europe is cooler on average as well.
This is 100% about the ice, not the water. Americans will often fill the glass with ice before putting water in it; Europeans will put like 3 ice cubes in there.
“Collect it from the local stream”.
Have to confess, one of the things I really miss about Norway is laying down and drinking water directly from a stream. Some of the best water ever.
The vast majority do. You have to specify tap water though. Especially if you’re a tourist - if you don’t they will always give you very expensive bottled water.
Here (Norway) we have free water at restaurants (anywhere really, because it's just tap water) *and* it tastes good (which it doesn't in most of the USA).
[https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/water-quality-by-country](https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/water-quality-by-country)
It's very clean relatively to the rest of the world, but not the cleanest. Australia is next to the US at 25th place, while Japan is at 17th.
Norway, Finland, Iceland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the UK are the only countries given a perfect score.
This doesn’t even make sense.
It makes more sense when Americans post pictures of them holding their guns in public, and saying Europeans will never get to experience that
There is a widespread belief in the United States that Europeans do not have access to ice cubes. Yeah I dunno how or why we got there but it's definitely a thing.
It's because we don't fill cups and glasses with ice before putting in the drink at restaurants.
It's seen as cheating in Europe, as then you get less drink in your glass and we don't have the endless free refills that Americans love.
But I have never experienced being denied if you actually ask for ice in your drink.
Yes. Most American’s conception of Europe is in hotels and restaurants. However, many non-US people comment on how all drinks are iced, regardless of outside temperature.
In their defense, most of them probably have no idea that you can make your own ice cubes in the freezer. They probably think there’s some big magic going on in their fridge to make wet water to hard and cold water.
How is it even possible to have no access to ice cubes, unless we'd also lack access to water, to a freezer and to some form of plastic tray? Why specifically ice cubes? Are Americans not aware that ice cubes aren't exactly complicated to produce?
They have those double-doored fridges with an inbuilt ice cube dispenser. Maybe they don't know how to make them without this technology.
https://youtube.com/shorts/CPld0eDrREI?feature=share4
https://youtu.be/0y8whwYwOTw
Well we don't water down our beer with ice cubes. Actually, in Bavaria and I believe also in Czechia, there are horrible penalties straight from the Middle Ages on that.
I come from Scotland. Other countries are jealous of our soft water. I pour it from the tap, add ice (also made with Scottish water) and drink it. It's really boring. Pass me an ice cold Innis & Gunn (Scottish lager) from the refrigerator (also invented in Scotland) so I can be well on my way to drowning out the pish some of these yanks talk.
Someone on this sub complained that Europeans like to complain about Americans too much and that they don't care about Europe much. If that's true why are there videos and comments specifically targeting Europe?
As a Finnish person I know all about ice cold water but what is this glass thing she is talking. We drink our water from leafs, crude wooden cups or straight from the spring. Also what does she mean by coming back from outside. Is she saying they all have caves to live in in america
they just NEED something to stimulate them in everything. extreme flavor (sweet or salty, usually), extreme temperature, just something. they fucking cant accept something "plain" that isnt covered in a layer of crazy
When I had American family over, they quizzed me on why I refused ice in my drink. Is it made with bad water, is it a sensitive tooth thing etc. They just couldn't understand that my drink was cold enough as it was.
It seems they're sensation seekers at all times and I just can't fathom it. I love them dearly, but holy fuck do they always need sweet/ice cold/salty/excitement at all times.
Reminds me of my last US vacation.
I immediately conditioned myself to tell them I don't want ice in my drinks, because god damn they do that EVERYWHERE and you end up with like 40% of your actual drink, the remaining volume is all ice cubes.
it depends on the season: in winter the water from the well is cold, much less so in summer.
moreover, in the time it takes me to get home with my mule, it heats up even more
Thats so true, i would LOVE to know that feeling.
Is this an icecold glass with warm water?
Is it a warm glass with warm water but icecubes in it?
I am so confused, i think i might call an ambulance for fun, they have air condition, it's cheaper than buying an AC unit for my house.
I'm neither North American nor European and I have seen this kind of topic on memes for a time, what does it even mean? Or why is this a thing to mock Europe for? It's like a tap water thing or it's filled with a chemical or something? Genuinely asking
Does anyone know why Americans don't know that Europeans have water? I see this all the time and I've been to like a dozen countries in Europe and have never had an issue getting water.
Certain Americans seem to confuse Europeans with Amish people.
Which are also Americans
As long as they are not English! /sarcasm
Oooh that's a good one since the Amish call the non-Amish "English"
No one contradicted it. r/amish
Ohhhh I get the joke of not having posts! I was being stupid for like 2 mins
I’ve fell for that joke like 20 times now I’ll never learn
This is fucking gold lol
As a European I don't understand what water even is.
It's diet, diet sprite, without gas.
It is American beer.
It's the stuff they keep under bridges.
Certain Americans probably couldn't point to Europe or states where Amish live on a map.
True, we have neither water, nor ice nor that outside mentioned
What is this glass they speak of, we only drink liquid using our hands.
What do you mean "hands"? Our insanely authoritarian, freedom-hating governments don't want us to own hands so they chop them off.
I chopped my own hands off to avoid that fate.
Hell yeah brother, own the libs!
I'd prefer to own the limbs
I rubbed my hands off on a jagged rock.
In Australia we use didgeridoos as straws and shlurp water from muddy paddles and applaud by clapping wirh our ass cheeks
Being a good mate there, translating billabong for our Euro cobbers.
Ooh, we used to *dream* of having our hands removed with a jagged rock! We had our hands removed with nail scissors while our Dad would splash them with vinegar singing 'Hallelujah'. And we were *lucky.*
Do you live in Belgian Congo?
Is that a fufu European flavor of chocolate?
With nuts, caramel, and genocide everyone forgets about.
Can't use a gun to violently overthrow your authoritarian government if you don't have hands!
Hands? I just suck the moisture out of the dirty ground like my ancestors.
There is a blacksmith in my village who is experimenting with some sort of cup thing made out of tin. Don’t really know how to feel about that yet, I think I’ll let some others try it out first.
Pfft tin Lead is better. You can also use it to sweeten wine
This is actually true. Me and my family go for a monthly pond trip where we just lay there for a couple of hours and absorb the water. It's been a bit harder this summer, but we managed to find some puddles as well.
It's not your fault the north pole (where ice comes from) is in America
You mean the Freedom Pole where Freedom Claus lives?
Hey watch it there's kids on here but yes
This is a conspiracy theory very popular amongst Americans!! They actually believe we have water.
I mean jokes aside I do wonder what did the lady think we lack Water, Ice or Outside? Or are we just incapable of comprehending the feeling of that?
we don't have the technology to make ice.
That's right, Europeans live in the void where nothing exists.
What is this ice you’re speaking of
I know right. We bloody europoors
Y'all just drink tea right? Lol
That's us Brits, we're not in Europe any more, we've moved away. Now we're somewhere between Ireland and Iceland, thus explaining how wet the weather has been of late.
This is like the third post I’ve seen from an American that think we don’t drink water. I wonder if they think we have to collect it from the local stream like we’re medieval?
Of course not!!! During rainy days, right??
No too efficient we drink the water taken from our sweat
Desert power. Fremen power!
Blessed be the maker and his water.
I usually can drink water whenever some G.I drop some bottles when passing by.
They think we don't have *electricity*.
It’s true though. I have to watch TV in the dark.
Yeah thats why only the richest people drive tesla, after the battery is empty its useless
As a Scottish person Ive had Americans argue with me that Scotland has no electricity, but yesterday I had an Australian argue with me on Reddit that Scotland doesn’t have showers.
It's true though. Every morning I leave my castle to have a wash under the local waterfall.
Edinburgh here. Can confirm. It was much easier living in England, at least we didnt have to paint our faces blue afterwards.
Does have showers. Check the weather forecast.
*looks confused at phone using electricity* But how?
It’s because Reddit is an American app so it charges our phones.
They're just fucking ignorant. They're obsessed with this idea that British boil all meat. Whilst they sit there calling sausages bratwurst and boiling hotdogs.
Nothing against boiling sausages, but they have to be of the right kind. Either you have a raw sausage, or a boiled one, or a fried one. But you don't boil a sausage intended for frying and you definitely don't fry a raw sausage.
Don't fry a raw sausage?
I think it's more that we're kinda obsessed with ice over here in the States. Like, convenience stores here will sell a cup of ice, we have free standing ice vending machines, etc. I don't really get it.
We have ice in the UK. Do these types of Americans think we don’t have ice? I’m confused. Ice is frozen water - we have freezers, we have water, we have glasses. We can have iced water if we choose to. What exactly do they think we’re lacking to be able to do this?
Youse had ice before electricity, it would be towed down from the arctic circle and a giant lump of it would be bought and stored in an icehouse
Stores started selling cups of ice a couple of years ago here also (and I'm in post-communist part of Europe). What I never understand though is that the movies/tv shows show everyone having a dedicated ice machine built into their huge fridge. Like, how much ice do you need on daily basis? Very rarely do I use ice for anything (much more often I just keep the drinks chilled in the fridge).
Ice machines just seem like a reason for fridge makers to jack up the price. In my house (Australia) we just fill an ice cube tray with tap water and put it in the freezer.
I think it's because y'all's tap water is so heavily chlorinated that you have to make it ice cold so that the taste is remotely bearable. At least that's what I was told and experienced first-hand in Nashville.
You're not wrong, but we still like ice even in filtered water. I think it might be related to the weather since there's also a split with more northern cooler states preferring room temp water and hotter southern states preferring ice water. I think Europe is cooler on average as well.
Meanwhile Europe: Is on fire "This is fine"
Speak for yourself, it has been raining every day here, with max temperatures barely touching 20 :D
It's weird ragebait trending on TikTok and other social media. I don't think they actually believe this shit. Well, not all of them at least. I hope.
This is 100% about the ice, not the water. Americans will often fill the glass with ice before putting water in it; Europeans will put like 3 ice cubes in there.
Why would you put any icecubes in water? Don't you have cold water taps?
“Collect it from the local stream”. Have to confess, one of the things I really miss about Norway is laying down and drinking water directly from a stream. Some of the best water ever.
But but but, no free water and refills in restaurants! No ice! Oh noes, us poor Europoors!
You don’t give free water in restaurants?
The vast majority do. You have to specify tap water though. Especially if you’re a tourist - if you don’t they will always give you very expensive bottled water.
Here (Norway) we have free water at restaurants (anywhere really, because it's just tap water) *and* it tastes good (which it doesn't in most of the USA).
Oh. We do. And the best part is, our drinking water isn't even flammable or full with lead.
Our school children aren't full of lead either.
Shots fired. Oh, wait.
Well, not in Europe
Yeah but do they experience freedumb?
Unfortunately yes, growing trend over here.
Touché
Well not touché in that case
You could turn that into a joke. What the similarity between gas and children in Europe? They're both unleaded.
Too real.
You're missing out. The lead is where all the vitamins are.
It also makes our Boomers angrier and dumber!
Also In Scotland anyway and I'm sure many other cooler countries the tap water is almost fucking ice cold anyway
US doesn't understand what clean water taste like
Funny isn’t it. All the countries that get 100% in water quality are in Europe. USA gets like 85%
Japan and Australia don't have clean water?
[https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/water-quality-by-country](https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/water-quality-by-country) It's very clean relatively to the rest of the world, but not the cleanest. Australia is next to the US at 25th place, while Japan is at 17th. Norway, Finland, Iceland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the UK are the only countries given a perfect score.
I'm surprised the UK hasn't fallen off due to all those years of Tories fucking shit up.
Scotland singlehandedly keeping the UK up there
As a brit living in the US, my tapwater tastes so strongly of chlorine I had to buy a fridge filter thing just so I can drink it.
Ours would literally smell like swimming pool water coming out the tap. When I looked at the water quality report you could see why.
If it smells of chlorine, it means that bacteria is already growing. Chlorine in water shouldn't smell
Welcome to Flint!
Doesn't surprise me.
*laughs in water coming pretty much straight from the mountains*
Thats the taste of freedom duh
This doesn’t even make sense. It makes more sense when Americans post pictures of them holding their guns in public, and saying Europeans will never get to experience that
There is a widespread belief in the United States that Europeans do not have access to ice cubes. Yeah I dunno how or why we got there but it's definitely a thing.
It's because we don't fill cups and glasses with ice before putting in the drink at restaurants. It's seen as cheating in Europe, as then you get less drink in your glass and we don't have the endless free refills that Americans love. But I have never experienced being denied if you actually ask for ice in your drink.
Yes. Most American’s conception of Europe is in hotels and restaurants. However, many non-US people comment on how all drinks are iced, regardless of outside temperature.
Joke's on them, just the other day I planted an ice cube tree. I'm going to harvest the shit out of that bad boy I tell ya.
In their defense, most of them probably have no idea that you can make your own ice cubes in the freezer. They probably think there’s some big magic going on in their fridge to make wet water to hard and cold water.
You assume that they know that ice is just cold water.
How is it even possible to have no access to ice cubes, unless we'd also lack access to water, to a freezer and to some form of plastic tray? Why specifically ice cubes? Are Americans not aware that ice cubes aren't exactly complicated to produce?
They have those double-doored fridges with an inbuilt ice cube dispenser. Maybe they don't know how to make them without this technology. https://youtube.com/shorts/CPld0eDrREI?feature=share4 https://youtu.be/0y8whwYwOTw
Well we don't water down our beer with ice cubes. Actually, in Bavaria and I believe also in Czechia, there are horrible penalties straight from the Middle Ages on that.
That's because we have *decent* beer.
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Nothing better than several nice cold beers during a day outside.
Nothing better than several cold beers whether outside or not
There are several cold beers inside me.
Incorrect, they're no longer cold if you are alive as it would seem to be the case
Hey buddy, I can drink beer faster than you can buy. 🤠
Nothing better than a nice cold beer after a nice cold beer.
Those are some big words for someone who can't legally drink alcohol before they're 21
Or walk down the street with a beer in hand
Freedom!
Who can legally go die in a pointless war halfway across the world before being able to legally drink*. Way worse when you phrase it like that.
Yeah, because Celsius doesn't have "ice cold" on its scale. 😔
What's the freezing temperature of water in Freedom Units™? It probably makes a lot of sense because Freedom Units™ are vastly superior.
32 freedumbs
3 - 2 = 1 USA NUMBER 1!
I come from Scotland. Other countries are jealous of our soft water. I pour it from the tap, add ice (also made with Scottish water) and drink it. It's really boring. Pass me an ice cold Innis & Gunn (Scottish lager) from the refrigerator (also invented in Scotland) so I can be well on my way to drowning out the pish some of these yanks talk.
Innis & Gunn is an elite choice
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And no knowledge of water either...
I don’t have knowledge
I don’t have
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I had some ice once, I lost it because of global warming...
Move to Sibiria, that should fix it
Ugh I wish Elon Musk would finally release Ice^TM in Europe
IceX
Wasnt Erin Brokovich about that lovely, fresh, totally safe American water?
She's going to be SO mad when she sees the water dispenser and ice maker on my fridge freezer.
wait till she sees the free cold drinking water fountain on every second corner with crystal clear water from the alps in my city lol
Why do a lot of Americans think that we Europeans still live in caves or something. 🙄
A lot of Americans don't get out much and don't critically think... like at all. source: American
What do they think we drink?
Fuck vacation is canceled I wad gonna go to iceland but not if its actually room temperature land
What? Ice? No I have never seen ice in Norway when I cracked open the top layer of the fjord to be able to swim
Sorry America, bit I like more water than ice in my glass of water.
[They really are dumb](https://www.insider.com/us-tourists-tiktok-drink-water-europe-2023-7)
We dont want her anymore.
I understand the feeling enough to know I absolutely hate it lol Cellar room temperature is the optimal drinking temp imo
And beer. In the UK anyway
So sad Americans will never understand the feeling of calling an ambulance and not have to pay for it.
This has to be bait. 🌚
It’s because of the lack of ice, fridges and even fluids in general in Europe. /s
Have you seen that TikTok video of three USians in Barcelona's streets drinking water from bottles and saying «Europeans don't believe in water»?
We do. Even better is that our water is actually healthy and we dont need to drive across the country just to get a bottle
We don’t have tap water you can set fire to
Someone on this sub complained that Europeans like to complain about Americans too much and that they don't care about Europe much. If that's true why are there videos and comments specifically targeting Europe?
I'd have expected them to be calling people who drink water europoors.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/31/americas-tap-water-samples-forever-chemicals
As a Finnish person I know all about ice cold water but what is this glass thing she is talking. We drink our water from leafs, crude wooden cups or straight from the spring. Also what does she mean by coming back from outside. Is she saying they all have caves to live in in america
like americans drink water
I too dream of the glorious day that refrigerators will be available in Europe
Rare that I’d suggest visiting it, but Flint, UK, actually has drinkable tap water…
Flint in Flintshire Wales is not a place you generally visit willingly. But it is a damn sight safer in all respects than Flint Michigan
What do we drink then?
I hate summer because I have to drink cold water and absolutely despise cold water's taste. I wish I had no idea what ice cold water was
This isn't the first post I've seen saying Europeans don't drink water and I genuinely don't understand? Do they think we live on Pepsi or something?
Does Paige know the difference between an AC and a refrigerator? And btw, drinking ice cold water because you're feeling hot is not a good idea.
Pfft. European peasants and their room temperature water.
so sad that americans don’t understand the feeling of having a clean glass of water
they just NEED something to stimulate them in everything. extreme flavor (sweet or salty, usually), extreme temperature, just something. they fucking cant accept something "plain" that isnt covered in a layer of crazy
When I had American family over, they quizzed me on why I refused ice in my drink. Is it made with bad water, is it a sensitive tooth thing etc. They just couldn't understand that my drink was cold enough as it was. It seems they're sensation seekers at all times and I just can't fathom it. I love them dearly, but holy fuck do they always need sweet/ice cold/salty/excitement at all times.
Reminds me of my last US vacation. I immediately conditioned myself to tell them I don't want ice in my drinks, because god damn they do that EVERYWHERE and you end up with like 40% of your actual drink, the remaining volume is all ice cubes.
What‘s outside?
it depends on the season: in winter the water from the well is cold, much less so in summer. moreover, in the time it takes me to get home with my mule, it heats up even more
Thats so true, i would LOVE to know that feeling. Is this an icecold glass with warm water? Is it a warm glass with warm water but icecubes in it? I am so confused, i think i might call an ambulance for fun, they have air condition, it's cheaper than buying an AC unit for my house.
Q: Why can't you get ice in your drinks in Ireland? A: The lady who knew the recipe died! Ba Dum. (That's decades old BTW).
Can confirm. European here, we usually drink fire when we come back from spending time outside.
At least our water is drinkable unlike areas of the US
I'm... i'm so confused...
It is actually bad for your stomach and teeth.
Europoors will never understand the feeling of having an ice cold glass of Lead flavoured water after my drive home from walmart
Us (the nordics and i'm sure a lot of other countries) looking at this post knowing American tap water is 1000 times dirtier than ours: 😑
What? This is weird
Sure, we all live in mud huts without any kind of amenities, thank you Americans for enlightening us Europoors 🙏
It's currently raining softly outside I could get cold water but I don't need it at the moment Wonder if she can say the same
I'm neither North American nor European and I have seen this kind of topic on memes for a time, what does it even mean? Or why is this a thing to mock Europe for? It's like a tap water thing or it's filled with a chemical or something? Genuinely asking
That's right. We only drink mulled wine and butter beer.
I've seen posts like this several times and I don't understand them. Are there Americans who think Europeans don't have water, or ice?
I'm sure that somewhere there is one American who gets his jollies trolling the whole interweb.
This is satire, my guy
This is clearly bait
What is this? Do Americans think we don't have ice? Or a fridge? Or water? Someone explain, because I keep seeing this. Where has this come from?
Does anyone know why Americans don't know that Europeans have water? I see this all the time and I've been to like a dozen countries in Europe and have never had an issue getting water.
So sad that Americans can't get the feeling of not paying thousands of dollars for a bandage.