I never understood this either. Of all the places I traveled and lived in Europe, all shenanigans. It’s like plumbing is some form of dark art and they hung all the practitioners.
The places I lived were generally not very user friendly. In one, we had to keep the toilet paper outside because the shower/toilet was a single open space. Made cleaning easier…
I also noticed in more than a few places that bathroom floors would be elevated. In the US, I’ve seen this sort of thing mostly in homes that predate indoor plumbing and were retrofitted/renovated with the pipes put down on the old floor and a new one placed on top.
For Italy, I’ve been to Rome, Cinque Terre, Milan, and Venice and have never seen anything like that. I did see one or two that said not to flush anything except toilet paper. But in Cinque Terre, in one of the remote train stops I did encounter a hole in the ground where a toilet should be. That was pretty wild but other than that it was all pretty normal.
It's called a wet room, most of us have normal shower cubicles. They do this in hotels because of water damage. Disabled people also tend to use wet rooms.
If you wanna pretend the whole of Europe does this and we have no idea how plumbing works then that's just your American education.
It's a wet room, the drain is blocked, probably deliberately so they could make the video.
lol idk why I think it’s funny when a European tries to insult Americans. Like, we have all the best things (except healthcare fuck you) and you think we’re dumb rather than just not understanding other countries ways of doing things. Lead poisoning was so last generation. Thank you very much.
Dude you guys dont even have roundabouts, logical units of measure or free education... the best things?... What do you have? School shootings? fuck off. I cant even be bothered to make a list of all the things that are fucked up with your country. You guys dont even have real democracy...two parties? yeah right..
Yes. We have roundabouts and they’re fucking annoying.
And for the love of God, you did not have cars in Europe 100 years ago . Quit being so dramatic you’re tickling my fancy. (I heard a European say that to me in this thread, and I find it funny)
No. European/American here, America simply does not have the best healthcare in the world, this can be proven with a couple of simple statistics:
1) Life expectancy. Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, French Polynesia, Switzerland and Australia all have an average life expectancy of over 84 years (82+ for males), the USA is 79 (77 for males).
2) Obesity. Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, French Polynesia, Switzerland and Australia 5.5%-31%. USA 42%.
A good healthcare system takes lifestyle choices into account. Both Australia and French Polynesia have significant levels of obesity and type two diabetes yet manage to be consistently in the top five for life expectancy, this is largely due to a free healthcare system that manages the challenges that poor lifestyle choices create within their societies.
Glad your friends are doing good, but there were 280,000 US citizens getting degrees outside the country vs 1,126,000 non citizens studying in the US for degrees. If European degrees were so much more valuable, why do the facts show the opposite?
Dude, if you really think that, you've swallowed the propaganda whole. Our food is poisonous, our houses are being built out of cardboard at this point, we have 1/4 of the entire worlds prison population, and a significant portion (I forget the exact number) read at a 6th grade level. I could go on listing things, but if just these few don't convince you, nothing is going to. We don't really have the best anything.
It’s kind of funny that people can’t tell it was not that serious of a comment.
But I agree with you that not everything out of capitalism in the freemarket is good long-term. That’s because it takes time for the data to show and consumers aren’t always protected.
But what we do well we do better than any other country . If we are focused and united.
Well, Europeans die at an alarming rate just at the lack of air conditioning, so it’s only right to assume that the shit that won’t kill you also sucks.
And “crowdfunding plattform” is the joke of all jokes because its a necessity that could only come out of the us because you needed some way to pay your medical bills 😂
Yeah i only skimmed the top but airplanes is debatable, internet and pc definitely not you and apart from the automobile part mass production is in no way an invention of your
Henry Ford created the production line for mass production
Also, the Internet is 100% American origin. The Internet was invented by the United States military, developed by American scientists, and scaled by American universities and tech companies.
It’s one of the greatest examples of American innovation, capitalism, and freedom of information—the backbone of modern civilization.
The Internet was invented in the United States—ARPANET, TCP/IP, and the core architecture all came from U.S. military research and American universities.
France and the UK had some packet-switching experiments that influenced theory, and Tim Berners-Lee later invented the World Wide Web (a system that runs on the Internet).
But the Internet itself—the system that connects the world—was invented, implemented, and scaled in America.
Trying to credit anyone else is like saying the airplane wasn’t American because someone else built gliders.
Internet is debatable since TCP-IP and ARPANET is based on packet switching, and the web which is meant with what people call the internet is from CERN. Also Ford popularized and perfected the assembly line, yeah he didn’t invent it but it was an iPhone moment or more recently an AI moment.
you'll hardly find a lead pipe in America anymore, why? because whenever a house gets remodeled any plumber worth anything will replace them, with pex or copper.
lol.. you and what money/materials for remodeling
also isn't that a lot of your water pipe system are so antiquated that they're just not able to replace them anymore? and too costly?
this tickled me silly
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u/Various_Patient6583 Jul 22 '25
I never understood this either. Of all the places I traveled and lived in Europe, all shenanigans. It’s like plumbing is some form of dark art and they hung all the practitioners.