Like A Duck@programming.dev to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year agoEuropeans, what is something that Americans have/do that makes no sense to you?message-squaremessage-square478fedilinkarrow-up1257arrow-down126
arrow-up1231arrow-down1message-squareEuropeans, what is something that Americans have/do that makes no sense to you?Like A Duck@programming.dev to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square478fedilink
minus-squareXEAL@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up21arrow-down1·1 year 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-down3·1 year 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-up21·1 year 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-down4·1 year agoI don’t build houses, nor do I live in Tornado Alley lol
minus-squareObi@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·1 year agoI think that was an empirical “you”, not you specifically…
minus-squareXEAL@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down2·1 year 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-down1·1 year agoIt doesn’t need to tear it down, just weaken it enough that it’s no longer structually sound.
minus-squarejoel_feila@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year 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-down1·1 year agoThey do, its a tornado. They destroy anything weaker than a nuclear bunker.
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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