talking to europeans is crazy sometimes because their average day consists of picking flowers in a magical forest before they retire for the evening in at a 800 year old winery and they'll be complaining about shit to you like "ughhhhh my landlord wants FOUR riddles this month 🙄" - ThreadSky

katie.bzky.team • 1 day ago

talking to europeans is crazy sometimes because their average day consists of picking flowers in a magical forest before they retire for the evening in at a 800 year old winery and they'll be complaining about shit to you like "ughhhhh my landlord wants FOUR riddles this month 🙄"

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hopaminehigh.bsky.social•1 day ago

Sorry to be all serious, but... the fact that I'm barely able to hold on and manage surviving in "four riddles"-land always devastates me. How many people like me didn't survive, because they lived in "obligated 16-hour shift"-land and/or "get exploited for my privileges"-lands...

I'm so sorry...

katie.bzky.team•1 day ago

meanwhile when i describe my day as an american where i spent 8 hours sitting in traffic on my way to the legally-obligated 16 hour shift bloodletting for the S&P500 and i get billed $50 every minutes i am not praying to Big Oil they'll be like "why haven't you asked any gnomes for trinkets yet???"

pfkelly.bsky.social•1 day ago

Well as a European who gets so called "Disability benifits" I basically get payed for just existing and being special. <3

sleepinbelle.bsky.social•1 day ago

As a British person who gets disability benefits, I have the same thing but with an added air of menace. <3

pfkelly.bsky.social•1 day ago

Bohdle of watah

sleepinbelle.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm always saying this and phrases such as this

pfkelly.bsky.social•1 day ago

And other classics like "Chippies" "God save the King" and "ORRRDAAAH"

dave.bzky.team•1 day ago

Katie stop spitting so much truth i cannot handle it

katie.bzky.team•1 day ago

the truth hurts

dave.bzky.team•1 day ago

That is what i am telling you, pls katie don't hurt 'em!

katie.bzky.team•1 day ago

IT'S NOT MY FAULT APOLLO SPEAKS THROUGH ME

skyblu.bsky.social•1 day ago

New from Raytheon, the Apollo missile! With explosions so bright, you'll think you're looking at the sun!

sadmoths.bsky.social•1 day ago

did you tell them that we killed the last american gnome over a highway expansion in indiana in 1972?

katie.bzky.team•1 day ago

that's what i said!!!

astringent.bsky.social•1 day ago

THE NISSE ARE INNOCENT

everythingmachine.bsky.social•1 day ago

The severe environmental impact of Gnomicus Terrarius Americanus is a terrible loss and may be why pixie dust yields have fallen 80% since 1990, but that extra lane helped traffic move so much more smoothly for like a whole week before it all ground to a halt again!

yourkingmob.bsky.social•1 day ago

The gnomes were invasive species, and were displacing the already endangered Memegwaans/Jogah. I'm glad those tiny green capped bastards are gone!

skyblu.bsky.social•1 day ago

America needs more fae

w-wolfa.bsky.social•1 day ago

if there were gnomes i would definitely be there for them, but unfortunately i dont have a lawn

innerpartisan.bsky.social•1 day ago

yeah but you also wear a cowboy hat and eat hamburger

pokersocialist.bsky.social•1 day ago

I really love it here so far, but it’s not all sunshine and rainbows. For example, lots of people wear Yankee hats, despite not knowing anything about baseball.

anarchoshanties.bsky.social•1 day ago

📌

i.am.spooni.sh•1 day ago

Bodily Sacrifice for Red Line Go Up™ is the name of my band

exaktscience.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s like they have no idea that the gnomes got privatized during Reagan and no one making less than half a mil a year can even afford a consultation with the gnomes, much less a trinket

ferc.bsky.social•1 day ago

Katie, this is your greatest post

katie.bzky.team•1 day ago

thank you i try

charlotteis.online•1 day ago

i have a french pen pal who was appalled that i get barely 20 mins for lunch at work, she said she usually takes an hour or more no issue

woeful-imp.bsky.social•1 day ago

💙 Lunch break is I'm pretty sure a mandated 1 hour in most sectors; meaning that you're not gonna be paid for that hour regardless...so might as well take it.

charlotteis.online•1 day ago

thats so nice people put meetings over my lunch break constantly

woeful-imp.bsky.social•1 day ago

💙 Sure is! Honestly everytime I hear about labour laws in...most places, really, its appalling. Kinda glad its still a bit robust here (but for how long? 😣)

charlotteis.online•1 day ago

it was inspiring seeing the nfp come together at least, i pray america can muster even a little bit of that energy lol

anarchoshanties.bsky.social•1 day ago

I could probably get away with three on occasion if I was discreet

hell I'm pretty sure I could just up and leave the office at any time and if I didn't have meetings to be at everyone'd just assume I had an appt of was gonna wfh or something

anarchoshanties.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm not gonna, because I like my job and I wanna do it right, but I definitely could

charlotteis.online•1 day ago

three omg thats beautiful

anarchoshanties.bsky.social•1 day ago

but yeah my workplace is super chill and gives its employees a ton of trust and autonomy so i don't wanna abuse that ya feel

charlotteis.online•1 day ago

yeah it would suck to ruin it for everybody

anarchoshanties.bsky.social•1 day ago

i mean i *probably* couldn't spend that in the break room of my floor but flitting between break rooms or going for a walk should be doable

velvette.bsky.social•1 day ago

legally it can as small as 20 minutes in France too but yeah in most places it's usually 45min-1h as an extremely standard lunch break that can drift depending on the kind of work you do

velvette.bsky.social•1 day ago

and the 1h is usually codified in some branch accord or something like that so it's usually not that much up to the company anyway

charlotteis.online•1 day ago

god i wish i had that so bad

kaylio64.bsky.social•1 day ago

My landlord got me a new fridge with a wine cooler and cooks me dinner every day.

kaylio64.bsky.social•1 day ago

He apologised for the fridge being red and not matching the decor

katie.bzky.team•1 day ago

unreal

kaylio64.bsky.social•1 day ago

But like it's super red!

Also he apologies for raising the rent by £12

pacemaker64.bsky.social•15 hours ago

I met a landlord who had a giant mushroom in one of the washing machines at his place. He wanted to charge me $1,300 a month for a 2 bed they "converted" into a 3 bed so that his bum, pedophile son could pay just $600 a month and be the "pseudo manager."

goblinmcghie.bsky.social•13 hours ago

European riddles are hard because the seelie only speak in languages lost to time, and the unseelie steal your voice so you can't answer.
And don't get me started on trying to evade the Wyld Hunt...

megthehopeful.bsky.social•1 day ago

I am an American living in Europe and it is Wild when I turn up to work with a gangrenous wound limping to my work station hiding my ailment. And I am told ‘take your paid sick leave’ and ‘take some paid annual leave also’ and then ‘talk to your boss about some further compassionate (paid) leave’

tim.ink•1 day ago

I was working with a European company on a project with a tight deadline and they MOVED THE DEADLINE because one of the key individuals was on vacation that week. They just “take Holliday” and the company lets them have time off!!!

fulcrum.gay•1 day ago

Should ask the gnomes for more trinkets imo

katie.bzky.team•1 day ago

WHERE ARE THEY THEN

fulcrum.gay•1 day ago

In the little gnome house everyone has outside their home

goblin-man.bsky.social•1 day ago

They actually just play a lot of Counterstrike and stuff, in my experience.

omendreamer.bsky.social•1 day ago

A European friend once complained to American me, while I had no health insurance, about how awful it was that she had to pay for a train ticket to get to the doctor. Every other cost was covered for, including paid time off from work.

katie.bzky.team•1 day ago

GOD YEAH LOL

oldpappythomas.bsky.social•1 day ago

i worked for a european company for a while and telling Americans "they're on vacation for a month. no, i can't get ahold of them. you'll just have to talk to me in a month, man, last time i talked to my boss he was in a bus going over the Andes" always tilted their brains

katie.bzky.team•1 day ago

it makes me feel insane like what the fuck am i doing here begging to get A Week off

oldpappythomas.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's like health care, you sound like a raving lunatic when you say people in Europe just go to the doctor when they get sick without calculating how much financial ruin it may bring on them

possiblecabbage.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Look- "the doctor was the mother, he stood on a block of ice, it was the cabin of an airplane, both of them were goldfish, he stabbed him with an icicle, and the horse's name was friday"

blackbelt16.bsky.social•15 hours ago

HRR fan spotted

lotternine.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Guessing this doesn't apply to Dogshit Island lol, although we do have international trains and free healthcare, we're firmly in the shit

katie.bzky.team•14 hours ago

y'all aren't euros anymore

lotternine.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Still part of the continent :(

astringent.bsky.social•1 day ago

just because I had red wine for dinner 🙄

katie.bzky.team•1 day ago

😭

adhdgobl.in•1 day ago

We need to stop making fun of Europeans for shit like this. Coming up with vacation plans when the economy is so tumultuous that you don't know if you're going to have eight or ten weeks of paid vacation is very difficult and we need to give them credit for their struggles.

katie.bzky.team•1 day ago

their life is SO HARD

adhdgobl.in•1 day ago

Prayers up fr

vonbladet.bsky.social•1 day ago

I get 42 days of annual leave whether I want them or not it's a nightmare

adhdgobl.in•1 day ago

🫂

inplacesdeep.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is what happens when your revolutions involved killing the king instead of kicking his troops out

moonprismpower.space•1 day ago

&& the city to city rail connections that don't crawl at 60km/h while also not costing a third of a paycheque 😭🤌

katie.bzky.team•1 day ago

NO SERIOUSLY WHY DOES THE TRAIN GO SLOWER THAN MY BIKE AT POINTS

moonprismpower.space•1 day ago

&& being able to cross international borders with relative ease on said trains

kernowshark.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Look, they're hard riddles, and the wine's the low end stuff honestly.

arbol.bsky.social•15 hours ago

The biggest shock I had recently as a European reading posts from North America is when someone posted the other day that they were within walking distance of their supermarket and to the European me, it was crazy that that wasn't normal.

katie.bzky.team•14 hours ago

this country really is hell

whirringsoftly.bsky.social•9 hours ago

I'm in walking distance of not only two major supermarkets, but two independent fresh produce markets.

It's pretty rad.

ghostanimatesstuff.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Same, pretty sure the two reasons I’m not overweight is because sometimes I forget to eat for a day and because I get my steps in by walking every time I want to go shopping

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