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Different strokes for different folks - or: Why can't I move the shower head?
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on October 24, 2007, 02:25:56 am --- :o
Free refills? Not in Germany.
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Ah, no wonder the hostility toward Mickey Ds. This is an example of how only part of a whole gets translated and you lose the overall affect. Yes, you get less soda with more ice, but in the States, you get free refills. When McDs when to Germany, they got the ice thing, but got cheap with the fountain drinks.
Kelda:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on October 24, 2007, 08:59:59 pm ---Ah, no wonder the hostility toward Mickey Ds. This is an example of how only part of a whole gets translated and you lose the overall affect. Yes, you get less soda with more ice, but in the States, you get free refills. When McDs when to Germany, they got the ice thing, but got cheap with the fountain drinks.
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And in the Uk and I believe the rest of Europe.
opinionista:
I think there's hostility towards Mickey D in Europe because it is bad food.
Anyway, something I wanted to comment. This is something I have seen in Cataluña, especially in Barcelona and in the South of France. Never in Madrid or Greece. Some apartments, houses and even hotel rooms have the toilet in one room, and the bathtub and the sink in a separate one. Sometimes the bathtub and the sink are all the way down at the other end of corridor. So, you use the toilet, and then have to walk all the way down to the other end to wash your hands. WHY? Does this happen in other European countries as well?
Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: opinionista on October 25, 2007, 05:54:11 am ---Anyway, something I wanted to comment. This is something I have seen in Cataluña, especially in Barcelona and in the South of France. Never in Madrid or Greece. Some apartments, houses and even hotel rooms have the toilet in one room, and the bathtub and the sink in a separate one. Sometimes the bathtub and the sink are all the way down at the other end of corridor. So, you use the toilet, and then have to walk all the way down to the other end to wash your hands. WHY? Does this happen in other European countries as well?
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Yes, it does. Just two weeks ago, we were on vacation in Austria. Our apartment had the toilet and shower+sink in seperate rooms. Makes sense when you're more than one person. The moment I'm stepping into the shower, you can bet your left arm one of the other four members of my family has to use the toilet. Always. It's like a law of nature.
They still have to come into the bathroom where I'm showering to wash their hands afterwards, but I prefer this solution to having everything in one room. Understandable, isn't it? ;D
It would be even better to have a second, small sink in the same room where the toilet is. But you take what you get.
Kelda:
David had a bidet in his hotel room in rome!!
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