To be fair. That's the Christmas market on the Altmarkt in Dresden and there's a huge parking garage right below it. π
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Given the amount of alcohol involved in these christmas markets, it really is a good thing that thereβs not much parking space.
It's like none of you have actually been to a city in the USA having an event. Do any of you see times square on various holidays or have been to a parade?
I find these kinds of threads funny.
Someone makes an admittedly lame jokey stereotype about the US.
A bit like a broad stereotype about the French liking baguettes, the Scots hating Scots, the Brits having bad teeth and talking like Austin Powers, or Germans not having a sense of humour. Even the Germans don't get offended. They've been taught that this is meant to be funny, and that the rules of etiquette suggest they should not be offended by it.
But the real punch line is always some humourless Americans taking it at face value and getting genuinely offended. "They're saying we don't have public transport. They're clearly idiots!"
Do any of you see times square on various holidays or have been to a parade?
No. No one outside the US has ever heard of New York. Just like everyone in the US drives a pickup truck everywhere. lol
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We'll join in unoffended when there's a mass shooting joke.
But America bad and its people stupid
Well, no. However, the way that roughly half of y'all vote is utterly incomprehensible from this side of the pond.
What if I told you a car is not necessary for travel. Take the red ticket, and it all ends. You board your flight and go back to the west, back to your long highways and calculated suburbs. But take the blue ticket, and I show you how far these two feet can walk.
I think colours should be flipped
Sorry, America is backwards land.
yes because the average american has made a choice to have a car-centric society with car-centric infrastructure and could totally just not use a car to get 8 miles across town and back for their job every day how silly of us
get 8 miles across town and back for their job every day how silly of us
A half hour cycle commute really isn't far. Almost anyone can do that, almost certainly including your grandma.
The real problem is the lack of infrastructure.
That would be a neat trick since both of my grandmothers are dead! But yeah exactly the infrastructure is not only not built for biking but pretty hostile to it as well, not to mention that there is usually no dedicated space for storing a bike on location and theft is pretty high for bikes. The change to make biking viable is possible but the amount of inertia is high and would be at least as difficult as implementing widespread EV changes I would guess
No current American has made that decision. It was made for us after world war II
We've chosen to allow it to continue
I guess my grandfather allowed it to happen when his neighborhood got destroyed by Robert Moses in New York. Or there was absolutely nothing that could be done to stop it because he was politically backed.
8 miles isn't too far to bike! I used to ride about that to commute. When I started, it took me around 40 minutes to get there, and an hour and a half back. Slight incline one direction.
About six months in, I was down to 20ish there, and less than 40 back.
Winter sucked pretty bad, someone got me gore-tex mittens though. Still had my eyelashes freeze
this is true, and would be good at least half the year so fair point but still need a good alt in winter. Still, cutting out half the year of car commuting is a lot better than nothing
I can't comprehend the joke.
Europe has working public transit, so parking garages aren't needed to the same level as American cities.
Even though this image is the above ground view of a giant ass parking garage. You all eat this shit up hook line and sinker.
It's a joke that's circled round like an Ouroboros. Americans say "The European mind can not comprehend this" under images of racing trucks with US flags on. Then Europeans do this in response.
So many have been made with varying degrees of irony to the point it's meaningless.
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It appears to be 'hurr durr 'mericans'.
I mean, yeah. Weβre pretty damn retarded, if you ask me.
The first time I took a cab in Germany, I went to a mall; dude drove right into the building. I was like "wtf is this dude doing?" As we passed a parking area and went through the concourse.
This looks like a fancy neighborhood. I'm guessing it's mostly valet.
First time Dresden got called a fancy neighbourhood since 1945