Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫💀 @alyx@gameliberty.club

@thor
I've only ever seen the finger snapping thing in movies, so if you say so. Idk.

@thor
We don't do the snapping fingers either. But I don't think any waiter would castigate someone for it.

We usually try to establish eye contact while raising a hand/finger. If eye contact can't be established silently, we say a short "hey" or something like that. Definitely quieter than a finger snap.

@thor
Problem here is, most of the time there will be a queue forming behind you. So you're likely to feel pressure from behind you to get done with your business as fast as possible. Which kinda forces you to say something if you even slightly think the cashier isn't busy.
And considering you also waited in the queue for a while, your patience would have already been tested.

Now maybe northerners have more patience reserves, that's very likely, but for us, because of the other circumstances, it just wouldn't work.

@thor
The way it goes here:
Me: I'd like a ticket to X please
Counter: Wait a sec.
Me: *waiting*
Me: *waiting some more*
Me: .... *starting to get frustrated*
Counter: Yes, you were saying?

@thor
Oh, same here. If the person on the other side is distracted with something else (which will happen a lot), you're supposed to say something to make yourself known.

@thor
Oh yeah. The Italian hand thing isn't a stereotype for no reason. It varies from person to person, but you can see a lot of hand waving and body language.

@thor
Yeah, that can happen.

@pasture
To me, the "it's not your/the government's business who I want to fuck" had an implicit "you, a complete stranger, don't get to know what my sexuality is" attached to it. Guess that got thrown, and replaced with "you MUST know I'm a degenerate fuck" somewhere along the way.

@thor
I think for us, it might be a left over trauma from the harder days. It was probably easier to survive if people helped each other more.

@thor
Maybe I'm a Norwegian at heart, cause I do that a bit too, but not out loud. And I usually have headphones on to make sure no one attempts to have a conversation with me or something.

@thor
I swear to god, I've had people sit on the seat next to me, while there were empty rows somewhere else on the bus.

@thor
Yeah... we tend to be a warm bunch. Especially to foreigners. And if you happen to be an obvious foreigner, that somehow can barely speak a few Romanian words... god help you, cause you're not gonna escape without a gut bursting dinner and booze.

@thor
Man, I wish nobody talked to each other in my apartment building. But our culture don't be like that. You're supposed to play nice with neighbors.

@fuggy
The worst part of this is, that this is again getting ignored by news media. So if you're trying to tell your IRL friends "don't vote Biden, he literally employs kleptomaniacs", they'll think you're the crazy one, because the story wouldn't have reached them.

@thor
Come on, you must know at least a neighbor who owns plants. It can't be that hard. Over here, I can't walk two steps without bumping into someone who doesn't have at least 1 plant per windowsill.

@thor
If you know the right people, the plants themselves come in basically for free. You just need pots and soil. Over here, if you're really in a pinch, you can basically steal the latter from a park.

@pasture
Finally someone who understands my hatred of the baguettes!

@thor
Just get some houseplants. Solves your dryness issue much better than constantly boiling water.

@thor
Don't you have some houseplants or something? How did you manage to get your humidity that low?