Like A Duck@programming.dev to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 10 months agoEuropeans, what is something that Americans have/do that makes no sense to you?message-squaremessage-square478fedilinkarrow-up1256arrow-down126
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minus-squareJPAKx4@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down1·10 months agoI remember hearing that Europe doesn’t use drywall nearly as much. A benefit of drywall is cost and repairability, but is basically glorified paper, yes.
minus-squareXEAL@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up21arrow-down1·10 months agoYou don’t have to repair it if you can’t break it. Try breaking a brick wall with your head or fists, lol.
minus-squareprotist@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down3·10 months agoTry rebuilding a brick wall after a tornado, you’re going to spend so much more money and you won’t have a house for a lot longer
minus-squareTippon@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·10 months agoThat’s the other side of the confusion. You build houses out of sticks and paper, and live in somewhere called Tornado Alley…
minus-squareprotist@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down4·10 months agoI don’t build houses, nor do I live in Tornado Alley lol
minus-squareObi@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·10 months agoI think that was an empirical “you”, not you specifically…
minus-squareXEAL@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down2·10 months agoI’d like to see a tornado tearing up a brick house as easily as a wood and drywall house.
minus-squareRouxibeau@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·10 months agoIt doesn’t need to tear it down, just weaken it enough that it’s no longer structually sound.
minus-squarejoel_feila@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 months agoEasy, can your brick house handle a 400 kph car flying into, follow by chunks of trees, houses, ice ball the size of grapfruit.
minus-squareThrowaway@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·10 months agoThey do, its a tornado. They destroy anything weaker than a nuclear bunker.
minus-squareidunnololz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-210 months agoIt also hurts way less if you accidentally hit it as an side benefit. I’m Canadian and we also use drywall for everything.
I remember hearing that Europe doesn’t use drywall nearly as much. A benefit of drywall is cost and repairability, but is basically glorified paper, yes.
You don’t have to repair it if you can’t break it.
Try breaking a brick wall with your head or fists, lol.
Try rebuilding a brick wall after a tornado, you’re going to spend so much more money and you won’t have a house for a lot longer
That’s the other side of the confusion. You build houses out of sticks and paper, and live in somewhere called Tornado Alley…
I don’t build houses, nor do I live in Tornado Alley lol
I think that was an empirical “you”, not you specifically…
I’d like to see a tornado tearing up a brick house as easily as a wood and drywall house.
It doesn’t need to tear it down, just weaken it enough that it’s no longer structually sound.
Easy, can your brick house handle a 400 kph car flying into, follow by chunks of trees, houses, ice ball the size of grapfruit.
They do, its a tornado. They destroy anything weaker than a nuclear bunker.
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It also hurts way less if you accidentally hit it as an side benefit. I’m Canadian and we also use drywall for everything.