You must live in Wisconsin. What do you expect with all of that cheese?

I guessed that, but is that a genuine stereotype? I had always heard of people in New York being nice (and experienced it myself) so I just wondered if that was actually something people said...

If it makes more sense, it's a stereotype of New York City and not so much the entire state itself. Full of semi-rude Italians who constantly try to prove that their pizza is better than Chicago's and that their city is better than Los Angeles, stomping down the street yelling "Fuhgeddaboudit!" and "I'm walkin' here!" and such.

As a U.S. citizen...

The underlying paranoia of different things that are not congruent to our own, applies to many nations but it seems to have a raging boner over here for some reason.

Well this may be a truckman's thank you but I have never seen this in my life, driving in Australia for 15 years and all the times I drove in Germany. I heard this is illegal too, because these lights "should" only be used in the event of a breakdown or to let drivers behind you know about something in front of them so they can brake early. I don't wanna try this in front of a police car.

My wife's brother works as a trucker in Germany.
This is the sign.

They are engaged and disengaged for 1 second. Keeping the distance is problem of the guy behind.


Also, this.

Now that you guys mentioned it, ive actually seen that occasionally here in Canada, only seen trucks doing it and very rarely.
I didnt know it meant something, but yeah the truck did that after i let him pass.

Hey kaboro, little OT here, but the last time I was in Winnipeg I noticed the traffic lights go yellow before a red and a green. Is that true throughout Canada? It seems odd to me because it's kind of like telling the drivers to get ready to slam on the gas. :P

Subservient nature of the people usually congested with following words by the Slovenian media: "You are a servant and a servant you will stay." Which means we have no national values, no patriotism, no confidence as a nation. We let the governement do what ever it want's. There is no company in this country that pays the bills for ordered goods in time/or ever and operates fully legally. Grey economy and tax evasion are seen as a virtue here. Breaking laws is normal since we live by the second rule (irony): "Rules are made to be broken." We are probably world champions when it comes to suing people. Its normal that each neighbor has at least one legal proceeding against his next neighbor and more. Corruption permeates the whole country. And if you add everything what Charon 121 has written about Croatia to Slovenia you might get a very clear picture of how things work here. It will take decades before we become a normal democratic country.

Its starting to be the same here in Canada too. Its not the fault of the people, its the medias that are stirring the sh*t and downright instigating this paranoia.

Nope, not the same in Quebec where im now. This yellow coming after a red (before green) is freaking stupid and can only lead to accidents when someone stopped on red decides to take off on yellow and the crossing direction decides to burn a yellow light thats a bit "ripe"

Exactly, the evils of foreigners is going to consume us all! The media sure is out there. :P

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