Worst part about living in Europe

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• usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Two nuns are riding their bikes back to the convent.

  One nun says to the other, “I don’t think I’ve ever come this way before.”

  And the other one says, “It’s the cobblestones.”

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• Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Would have been fine if you bought real food/drink.

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  • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How would padding it with vegetables have helped? Would seltzer water have been less shaken up?

    Shaming someone biking to and from the store for getting zero calorie soda is ridiculous. Post the contents of your last trip to the grocery store. Made on foot or bike I’m sure, right?

    To be clear, even if the answer to that was yes and you eat nothing but ‘health food’ it wouldn’t t give you the right to sneer at what other people eat and drink.

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    • HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨12⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Nah, cola is fine, it’s just that it’s American. There are quite a few awesome local brands you can drink here.

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    • python@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      nah they’re right, I eat like shit

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• bulwark@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As someone who’s lived on a cobblestone street before, it’s nice to look at, but a lot less functional than asphalt or concrete. Especially trying to walk home from the bar with a few drinks in you.

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  • python@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They’re apparently also pretty good for slowing down cars in pedestrian-heavy areas, but yeah, taking a fall on those after a few drinks does hurt like shit haha

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  • original_reader@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    On the pro side, if don’t will, they outlast every tar road by centuries.

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  • Battle_Masker@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t live in Europe, but I’ve heard horror stories about how slippery those streets get in the rain

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    • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      You are right. They are. But they’re less common than driveways in the US and I don’t know why you guys make yours so smooth that if there’s freezing weather you can’t even walk up it if there’s the tiniest incline.

      Not that this is any sort of competition, just thought about it

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    • dabaldeagul@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Can confirm, having worked food delivery in the Netherlands.

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    • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There’s a really good reason they’re only used on low speed streets and squares, and now large roads.

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    • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They do, they get very slick in some conditions. In winter/freezing conditions it’s an outright hazard. But there really aren’t that many such streets left, and the few that are are slowly being changed to asphalt too.

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  • garretble@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I was very fortunate to go on a vacation last month in Belgium where we rode bikes to several different towns.

    It was awesome, but the cobblestone streets in some of those old cities are ROUGH. Just bone shaking. The chain on the bike I was riding bounced off once when I needed to shift.

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• cholesterol@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If that’s the worst part you’re having a goddamn amazing time.

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• blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No cobbles in the pictures

  Press X to doubt.jpeg

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Get some shocks for your basket 🤷‍♂️

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  • mutter9355@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Or just wait a few minutes before opening them

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• JelleWho@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Did you know there is a maximum pressure in the bottle, at which point shaking has no more effect since the pressure keeps the bubbles in your drink? This point is quickly reached, and already happened before it went into the store.

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• AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What kind of bike is that?

  That’s a lot of sugary drink 😂

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  • python@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    All I know is that it’s beige and from 2011! Held up pretty well all things considered, the battery still lasts for 10km or so, which is plenty for getting to work and doing grocery trips :D Image

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    • Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh I helped someone fix one of those. Nice.

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    • AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Looks pretty cool! Should have known it was an e-bike

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  • HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Technically no sugar, it’s the ‘zero’ variant.

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    • python@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s Zero caffeine too! Which makes it the ‘zero zero’ variant, I think

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• Flagg76@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I can feel your pain, switched to Picnic though, never looked back.

  I have even put cobblestones in the garden now for nostalgic reasons. (Basaltkeien)

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• PotatoLibre@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Now I’m gonna tell you a “secret”.

  We European drinks mainly water from the tap, when we don’t drink beer or wine od course.

  (except many Italians mi, they’re stupid and buy water in plastic bottles).

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  • frog@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In Barcelona, I was told their tap water was trash so I had to buy bottled water. The hotel I was staying at said the samething and they were giving me bottles for free.

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• martijndevrieze@europe.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Seems like the worst part is not too bad, all things considered. All you need is half an hour patience with the fizzy drinks ;) Have to say, hate cycling on the cobbles, but love the look of them in the cities! Also, cobbles generally force cars to slow down indeed.

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