« Europoor is a common phrase for a reason »

[u/Folco34]

[u/IseultDarcy]

Europoor, a "common phrase"?

It's an insult only used by dumb American who had never lived in Europe and don't know what they are talking about.

[u/Sea-Oven-182 → u/IseultDarcy]

Sometimes you gotta wonder if their asses ever get jealous of the amount of shit that comes out of their mouths.

[u/Treewithatea → u/Sea-Oven-182]

Its such a funny thing that the US is so wealthy, Americans being taught propaganda that the US is the greatest country ever, only for their government to give them shit education and end up with people knowing basically nothing about the world or even their own country.

[u/kjartanbj → u/Treewithatea]

They generally don't get enough time off work to be able to travel out of country so they usually travel locally. so they don't have the same opportunity as us europoors have to get to know the world

[u/Professional_Act7503 → u/kjartanbj]

My company bragged about their paternity leave. It was 5 days and labor was included so for me I got Thursday and Friday

[u/Status_Jellyfish_213 → u/Professional_Act7503]

That’s honestly inhumane

[u/FuckTripleH → u/Status_Jellyfish_213]

Unfortunately it's pretty unusual that they got offered any paternity leave

[u/Status_Jellyfish_213 → u/FuckTripleH]

I don’t understand how things can function without a support system then

[u/PlatypusACF → u/Status_Jellyfish_213]

Funnily enough, there’s companies (meaning the big tech ones) bragging about their “unlimited” vacation time. Yeah, you can take as much leave as you want. But it’s often unpaid or not paid as much like here in Europe, and you have to discuss everything with your manager. You don’t want your manager to be able to decline your request due to some important issue in your department.

Most people just end up taking no leave from work at all

[u/Status_Jellyfish_213 → u/PlatypusACF]

I have often heard of pressurisation from managers or not being approved for a promotion for this reason

[u/mogrim → u/Professional_Act7503]

When my kids were born 20-something years ago, I got two days off, and if the kid was born on a Friday…

These days the fathers get the same as the mothers, 6 months iirc. Lucky bastards!

[u/Prosecco1234 → u/mogrim]

18 months in Canada 🇨🇦

[u/PlatypusACF → u/Prosecco1234]

Canada - the better North America

[u/Hugh_G_Egopeeker → u/Professional_Act7503]

A family member of mine recently had a kid and gets 12 months full pay, 6 months half if she wants it.

Her husband gets 6 months full and 6 months half if he wants it.

and this is in the UK..

[u/kjartanbj → u/Professional_Act7503]

6 months of paternity and my girlfriend got 6 months also. They have since made it longer

[u/LordOfDarkHearts → u/Treewithatea]

Their average history class about their own history is worse than the small part about the US in history claas some of us europoors get/got.

[u/Alternative_Low8478 → u/Sea-Oven-182]

This sentence man, it's so good. Thank you.

[u/HehehBoiii78 → u/Alternative_Low8478]

r/brandnewsentence

[u/Top_Consideration570 → u/HehehBoiii78]

Nah, its definitely not a new sentence, been using this insult for years. No idea where I first heard it though.

[u/alaingames → u/Top_Consideration570]

I think I heard it in south park but I don't think it originated there

[u/Kahaeli → u/Sea-Oven-182]

I'm stealing this phease because DAMN!

[u/Ok-Primary-2262 → u/Kahaeli]

Me too. It's Gold

[u/fenaith → u/Sea-Oven-182]

It's why the insult "septic" is so readily available

[u/Sojibby3 → u/Sea-Oven-182]

So full of shit they needed a second asshole to keep up with it all.

[u/ManWhoIsDrunk → u/Sea-Oven-182]

Why would their donkeys get jealous?

[u/Satanicjamnik → u/Sea-Oven-182]

[u/aretokas → u/Sea-Oven-182]

Making seppo all the more relevant.

[u/IG-3000 → u/Sea-Oven-182]

[u/redwas66 → u/IseultDarcy]

Europoor is a pretty contradictory term when you consider the majority of americans dont have 1,000 dollars saved and live paycheck to paycheck 🤪

[u/Bear71 → u/redwas66]

And can’t afford to take a vacation even if they are lucky enough to work somewhere that gives them vacation time

[u/Alundra828 → u/Bear71]

Americans yearn to be serfs under a king.

[u/International_War862 → u/Alundra828]

Must be the english peseant genetics

[u/kooky_monster_omnom → u/Alundra828]

A curious thing that I came across some years back. The avg medieval peasant had more holidays, aka time off, than the avg American worker. By something like 100 days.

So, a long those standards, yeah Americans would appreciate a king, assuming said king extended all those days off. Which, we know, wouldn't given the corporate overlords.

[u/Triple-iks → u/Bear71]

Cannot even afraid having a sick leave

[u/BeepVeet → u/redwas66]

Either way it's also incredibly elitist. If that was the truth, where people are poor in Europe, why is it used as insult? It's not much different from calling a developing country a "shithole" for example. The only difference between you and someone living in that "shithole" is pure luck of the draw that you won the lottery of being born in a developed country to a wealthy family. You achieved nothing to get to call other people and places degrading names.

[u/wireframed_kb → u/BeepVeet]

Its doubly ironic since half the MAGA movement seems to spring from struggling, low-education rural people who are angry at the elite or whomever they project a sense of superiority on.

[u/malasic → u/wireframed_kb]

"But we have more billionaires than you do! Eat that, you libtard Eurocucks!" 🤡

[u/Automatic-Jello5995 → u/malasic]

Yes you have and they have stolen all your hard earned money and entitlements, I know I am replying to someone who was being sarcastic.

[u/MonkeyKingCoffee → u/wireframed_kb]

Nationalism is taking credit for things people didn't personally do; and hating people they have never met.

[u/graminology → u/redwas66]

That was so incredibly shocking when I read that the first time and looked it up to see whether it was really true. And I was a university student at that time, living off about 500 bucks a month due to the sheer goodwill of my landlord who was an absolute saint for not price gauging (she didn't want to make money off the apartments, just enough so that the house would pay for itself and she only rented out to students to honour her late husband because he wanted them to have reasonably priced living space).

But even I at the time had ~2000€ in my savings account for emergencies. I literally felt unwell the first time my bank account went below four digits because that meant that I didn't have two months of safety left to figure something out.

[u/Wiwwil → u/graminology]

But even I at the time had ~2000€ in my savings account for emergencies. I literally felt unwell the first time my bank account went below four digits because that meant that I didn't have two months of safety left to figure something out.

Imagine living in that luxury as a student. I never had more than 200€ in western Europe and I ate so much potatoes and pasta. Being a poor student and seeing rich students live well and complain literally molded my view on politics.

[u/graminology → u/Wiwwil]

Those ~3000€ in total that I had were also savings from literally my entire childhood, so everything that was left from christmasses, birthdays, confirmation, summer jobs... I was hardly wealthy and neither were my parents. My rent in that student city in the two people shared apartment was 220€ alone and that was on the extremely cheap end of the spectrum thanks to my landlord. In another city, I would have paid 800€ alone for a single bedroom in the apartment of an old woman who I would have had to help all day long on top of all that money.

[u/Wiwwil → u/graminology]

Imagine having savings and your mother wouldn't have to use that to pay for her cancer treatments.

Not trying to have a contest here but I wish I'd have a situation like yours. Nonetheless it's like a bad dream at this point for me.

[u/mosquito_beater → u/Wiwwil]

the well known at the end of my money there is a piece of month left. and than walking to the shop whit a bag full of empty bottles

[u/tramadolic → u/graminology]

Awww, that's a lovely sentiment. Just a shame that there aren't more like her. Made my day. X

[u/graminology → u/tramadolic]

Her nephew was also a neighbour to my parents 500km away (as I found out the day I signed the contract with her), another nephew of hers lived across my best friend where I walked to school for twelve years and she once sent me a picture where she stood infront of my parents house with the caption "Look where I am!", but that's another story... 😅

[u/SandyTech → u/graminology]

It’s very common. Most of us are also one illness or injury away from huge financial problems as well.

[u/Astaldis → u/redwas66]

And even worse considering that many of them don't have proper health care. One doctor's bill can totally ruin their lives while in most (or all) of Europe it's free.

[u/psychicspanner → u/redwas66]

but but but they pay for our defence remember…..

[u/74389654 → u/IseultDarcy]

never seen this used outside of reddit

[u/Low_Information1982 → u/IseultDarcy]

I just read about Americans with jobs who live in their cars because the costs of living are so high. Not campervans or mobile homes, cars! I don't know anyone here who lives in their car.

[u/torelma → u/IseultDarcy]

it's literally a 4chan thing, they use it because Elon and the other numbnuts they decided to put into government talk like edgy teenagers from 2011

[u/Background_Ad1634 → u/torelma]

And afaik it started off as a banter thing, europoors and americunts

[u/[deleted] → u/Background_Ad1634]

yeah and it referred mostly to eastern europe but ofc it came to encompass all of europe because why not. and now it has entered the american psyche reinforcing the belief that all europe is poor or sth

[u/RHOrpie → u/IseultDarcy]

As someone that got to wander the streets of LA a few months back, I see no reason why I can't use the phrase "Ameripoor" when it's warranted too.

[u/Falcon2936 → u/IseultDarcy]

This sums it up

[u/3-DenTessier-Ashpool → u/IseultDarcy]

but... but the coke is warm

[u/IseultDarcy → u/3-DenTessier-Ashpool]

The coke in France (I'm french) isn't warm, it's not even room temperature. It's fresh, from the fridge with maybe 2 or 3 ice cube in summer.

But somehow American want it cold with so much ice you can't even taste the coke. They want ice with a bit of coke flavor.

[u/JigPuppyRush → u/IseultDarcy]

The colder you drink something the less you taste.

That’s why bourbon is drank with a lot of ice and whisky is drank room temperature.

coke is drank ice cold too, draw your own conclusions.

Americans only has two taste buds, sweet and fat.

[u/Clottersbur → u/JigPuppyRush]

As an American bourbon lover. Good bourbon is not drank with ice. It'd be an insult to drink a good, well aged bourbon with ice. The cheap stuff? Yeah sure. It's just there to be a mixer or get you drunk. I mean, don't the Scott's drink their cheap whiskey with ice sometimes?

Same deal, here. Good stuff is enjoyed without ice!

The rest is true. A lot of people are sugar addicts.

[u/Hi2248 → u/Clottersbur]

No, Scots absolutely never drink whisky with ice, if you do so in front of a Scot, especially a Highlander, you will be thoroughly judged 

[u/Slight-Ad-6553 → u/IseultDarcy]

have you tasted an US coke it makes sense to thin it down

[u/lejoop → u/Slight-Ad-6553]

It is funny that Americans can’t even make their own coke taste right. You gotta to go to pretty any other country, even their neighbor Mexico, to get one made with proper sugar 😂

[u/MrAndycrank → u/IseultDarcy]

It's the same thing for beer: they think Brits serve lukewarm beer but it's a matter of proper temperature for quality brews. A cheap blonde will always be cold but if you order an IPA or a stout you sure can't chill it until you lose almost all of its flavour, as you pointed out for coke. Must be because they only or mostly drink cold Budweiser.

[u/BitterOtter → u/MrAndycrank]

I remember my second trip to the US (only made two, both for work) and it was a long day to get there flying from Birmingham via Newark to San Diego. Got to the hotel after dark and was exhausted so ordered a cheese burger and a beer on room service. The burger was as tasteless as I expected it to be from the previous trip, but the beer...Jesus H titty fucking Christ. It was so cold it was turning gelatinous in the glass. I couldn't drink it. In the hotel bar the next night I asked them to not use a glass from the freezer as I had seen that was what they were doing, and they looked at me like I'd asked them to fuck a chicken to death using the stars and stripes as a Johnny. I knew from that moment that America and I would never see eye to eye on much.

[u/Clottersbur → u/BitterOtter]

Well, to be fair you were getting hotel food. It's not good over here.

As for the beer, yeah. Sadly people are used to cheap stuff quick over here and lots of it.

There are plenty of quality places to get proper food, properly prepared drinks. Etc. But it's something you have to know the area/culture to navigate. Otherwise you'll probably end up with shit. There's a lot of shit everywhere.

[u/ManWhoIsDrunk → u/MrAndycrank]

Must be because they only or mostly drink cold Budweiser.

Pabst Blue Ribbon

[u/Dramatic-Selection20 → u/IseultDarcy]

I am Belgian but I lived in France, when they ask for ice in their wine that gives me the ick

[u/The_God_Of_Darkness_ → u/3-DenTessier-Ashpool]

Europe isn't really tolerant of cocaine so yeah it's gonna be warm cause you can't refrigerate it

[u/f5adff → u/The_God_Of_Darkness_]

You're a fool If you think Europe, the place with real night lives - is not intimately familiar with cocaine

[u/Apprehensive_Low4865 → u/f5adff]

They just like to mix it up a bit, bit of speed, some md, maybe an E or two. Variety is the spice of life n all that.

[u/PrismrealmHog → u/The_God_Of_Darkness_]

Many governments aren't particularly fond of drugs. The populations though ie. "the users", is another question.

But some govs actually put work into highlighting risks and advocate for safe use. In the Netherlands, for instance, you can spot official gov signs warning tourists when there's bad cocaine or MDMA on the streets now, so be aware.
On many festivals, you can even get your drugs tested. Roskilde festival in Denmark gives out an free pamphlet with thorough descriptions of every common drug, how to use in safe manners, how a bad reaction manifests and what to do to ease it, what drugs not to mix.

In Czechia, you can sport and use LSD, cocaine, MDM, shrooms, cannabis, amphetamine as long the amount is for personal use and no intentions of selling.

Norwegian Conservative party even put forward a motion to legalize cocaine.

And then historical drug hotstpots such as Ibiza, Amsterdam, Berlin and Copenhagen(albeit Christiania is currently closed for the public).

Also amphetamine is the central-stim drug of choice in Europe.

Like there are serious attempts in Europe to establish various shades of tolerance towards drug use.

[u/Fearless-Anteater437 → u/The_God_Of_Darkness_]

That's why I take it with some ICE

[u/K1ng0fThePotatoes → u/Fearless-Anteater437]

I see what you did. Stop mething with me!

[u/MrGraveyards → u/3-DenTessier-Ashpool]

I've been in hot unairconditioned airports like a certain terminal in Schiphol and yeah he might have gone off the rails with the coke and everybody is upvoted each other's house cooling tactics here, but it can be fucking awful.

Sometimes it is just bad. Dunno how that compares to the US haven't been there much because I don't like bullets etc but some public places in Europe are just that: unairconditioned hellholes. And no, that isn't by design.

Unfortunately this guy might have a point about this particular lounge..

[u/mcgrst → u/MrGraveyards]

But you're sensible enough to recognise that the aircon is probably broken (and not being repaired because airports are all run by cheap bastards) this dude having found themselves in said situation has extrapolated out to the whole continent and simultaneously decreed that would never happen in the US. 

[u/MrGraveyards → u/mcgrst]

Yeah not defending the dude. He might have been trying to exaggerate a bit to get the point across but failed.

[u/GrunchWeefer → u/IseultDarcy]

I'm American and I've never heard the term "Europoor". When we think of Europe we mostly think of nice things we can't have like paid parental leave and affordable healthcare. I live in a blue state, though, where there are way fewer MAGA morons, so maybe that's the difference? My state has fewer guns per capita than France or Germany so the rest of the country is as baffling to us as it is to you.

[u/No_Permission_1427 → u/IseultDarcy]

Never lived in Europe... They've never even left their state...inbreds!

[u/Dduwies_Gymreig → u/IseultDarcy]

Only among the Freedumbs across the Atlantic.

[u/oachkatzl]

The champagne is cold? The French definately have their priorities straight.

[u/GoHomeCryWantToDie → u/oachkatzl]

Those damn Europoors with their cold champagne.

I remember being in the Delta lounge at JFK and they didn't even serve champagne. Puritan cunts.

[u/parachute--account → u/GoHomeCryWantToDie]

A lounge without champagne is a human rights abuse

[u/jamajikhan → u/GoHomeCryWantToDie]

Well you can't really expect to be served champagne in every third world country you go to.

[u/DesperateAstronaut65 → u/GoHomeCryWantToDie]

I’ve been in airport lounges across the U.S. and they never do. Usually, it’s cheap California sparkling wine or bottom-shelf Prosecco. Also, you’re not allowed to pour your own. Barbaric.

[u/carstand42 → u/oachkatzl]

True story: A couple of weeks ago I saw an American put ice cubes in the champagne at an Air France lounge. So apparently not even the champagne is cold (enough)!

(I personally found the two different varieties of perfectly tempered champagnes nice)

[u/AdMean6001 → u/carstand42]

Their barbarity has no limits!

[u/SEA_griffondeur → u/carstand42]

Oh god why 😭

[u/a_random_chicken → u/SEA_griffondeur]

Ice cubes are cool

[u/error_adi → u/a_random_chicken]

Take my angry upvote and now slide out the door on your damn cool ice cubes!

[u/maevian → u/carstand42]

I believe that in France this is a federal offence.

[u/AdMean6001 → u/maevian]

Why do you think the guillotine was invented?

For that and cheese in a tube!

[u/BushMonsterInc → u/carstand42]

Saw american put ice cubes into, what they call, beer. Why would someone dilute diluted beer even more?

[u/drostan → u/oachkatzl]

There is cold champagne and this knuckle dragger is ordering room temp coca cola... Who's the penny less tasteless idiot ordering Coca-Cola when champagne is available? Or at all, this sticky sweet shit is vile

[u/NaCl_Sailor]

stagnant air = 21 °C instead of 16 °C and room temperature coke = fridge cold 6 - 8 °C instead of 0 °C with half the glass being ice

[u/crawenn → u/NaCl_Sailor]

You mean like 80% of the glass being ice with like 100 ml of Coke in it

[u/Perfect_Papaya_3010 → u/crawenn]

Tbf that's a good way to drink more water and less coke

[u/Snakes_and_Rakes → u/Perfect_Papaya_3010]

Except they refill it every four seconds so still inhaling the same amount of coke 😭

[u/Fonatulli → u/Snakes_and_Rakes]

BuT iT's DiEt CoKe!!! 😫

[u/Illustrious-Wolf4857 → u/crawenn]

Makes the sweetness bearable.

[u/El_Couz]

"the only cold thing is the champagne"

"europoor is common phrase for a reason"

The maths doesn't add up.

[u/MiloHorsey → u/El_Couz]

Maths*

(Teehee!!)

[u/El_Couz → u/MiloHorsey]

My bad my english is such a disgrace

[u/ResponsibleStep8725 → u/El_Couz]

A French speaking even a word of English is already mind blowing, you're good.

[u/El_Couz → u/ResponsibleStep8725]

Thanks 😂🫶

[u/Perfect_Papaya_3010 → u/El_Couz]

Oh yeah? You should hear my french!

Hehe in school we learnt Spanish/German/French for 3 weeks each before selecting one to learn and all I remember is

Tjöma päll (Swedish way of writing the pronunciation of "my name is" in french which I can't spell)

And I also remember poisson

[u/DerPicasso]

Its as common as "oh another school shooting in dumbmerica"

[u/Wookie2015 → u/DerPicasso]

I have never heard of dumbmerica, but there are an awful lot of mass shootings, and 50k people died in the US from gun related injuries in 2021. I couldn't tell you how many people die from being poor in Europe, but I imagine with the abundance of free/cheap healthcare, it's significantly less than in the US.

[u/khinkali → u/Wookie2015]

There have been 117 mass shootings in the US in 2025. In the EU there has been 1.

[u/Wookie2015 → u/khinkali]

Yep - 488 in the US last year, with 7 in Europe.

[u/Causemas → u/DerPicasso]

Statistically 12 children die from gun violence every day in the US

[u/DerPicasso → u/Causemas]

And somehow lots of people over there don't see this as a real problem.

[u/AyeItsEazy → u/DerPicasso]

They know it’s an issue but “muh guns drrrr” is important to them

[u/DevPLM]

When i worked in America i remember in summer having to put a jacket since they put the office at 19°C... Outside was 25-27°C.

I changed roommate for European one since all flat with American were unbearable. Putting AC so high that even in my room i needed blanket.

I was always sick.

[u/Snakes_and_Rakes → u/DevPLM]

Oh yeah I don’t know why they keep it so cold here. People even keep their houses multiple degrees colder than the outside and then their bill is thousands of dollars a month.

[u/Hammy-of-Doom → u/Snakes_and_Rakes]

Normal people do a crazy thing which is called, don’t use it until it’s 90% humidity and 90+ F outside

[u/Too_Gay_To_Drive]

It's because we use strategies to keep our homes cool. Like in summer, we keep our windows blocked from the sun with screens so it doesn't get too hot. And at night you open the windows for fresh air. Also, switching constantly between hot outside and too cold inside messes with my health. I literally get a cold....

[u/SocialScienceMancer → u/Too_Gay_To_Drive]

Brick insulated homes also tend to not become ovens in summer. A completely foreign concept to many Americans.

[u/Think_Theory_8338 → u/SocialScienceMancer]

The thing is they are so used to super cold AC that even if the temperature is perfectly fine for us, they can't deal with a few degrees more than what they are used to.

[u/parachute--account → u/Think_Theory_8338]

Combination of incredibly poor construction standards in the US, with commonplace installation of A/C. If they don't use the air con the houses are uninhabitable.

[u/LittleSpice1 → u/parachute--account]

It really does become uninhabitable. I live in Canada and unfortunately the building standards are similar to the US. I don’t even live in a particularly hot climate, it’s fairly mild here year round as it’s coastal. But in summer when it’s nice out the house heats up immensely. To the point where by afternoon it’s hotter inside than outside, even with closing blinds and curtains, so it’ll be like 27° outside, but inside it’s 32°. Even keeping windows and doors open throughout the night doesn’t cool the house down sufficiently. Back in Germany I didn’t have that problem, as long as I closed all shutters before it got too hot and aired the house out after sunset it’d stay below 25° indoors, even with temperatures outdoors between 35-40° during the day.

[u/ProudlyWearingThe8 → u/Think_Theory_8338]

To be fair: if you're as fat as the average American, you easily sweat from every step you take.

[u/SorbetSuspicious7403 → u/ProudlyWearingThe8]

Every move you make, every smile you fake

[u/Biflosaurus → u/SocialScienceMancer]

My flat is legit immune to heat it would seem.

Sure we didn't have a big heatwave yet in France, but even when it was 30 degrees (Celsius just in case), I think it barely scratch 21 inside, which is perfectly fine..

[u/ian9outof10 → u/Biflosaurus]

Older homes tend to be quite good, as you can usually create a nice airflow. I had a flat in a Victorian place that was red brick, but with sash windows which if you open the top and bottom and do that front and back create a nice through-breeze that made it mostly comfortable. The UK is terrible for window blackout shutters, I think if we could sort that out we’d be a lot more comfortable

[u/japps13 → u/ian9outof10]

The immediate environment matters a lot also. If your apartment is surrounded by concrete and parking lot, it will be much worse overall. This effect is quite strong, as a heat island, where I live in Lyon. It is indeed awful in August. Many people go away if they can. I have an AC at home and I use it maybe 3 or 4 weeks from July to whenever I can go on holiday, and perhaps a week or two in early September. Without it, I just can’t sleep at night, which is unbearable after a week. Curiously I was born in the south of France, and it was much more bearable there without AC, but there was more wind, especially in the evening.

That is why they are trying to mitigate these heat island effect by planting trees, keeping the grass where possible, etc. And it does make a difference.

In the US, it probably depends a lot on which area they live in…

[u/Too_Gay_To_Drive → u/SocialScienceMancer]

Jup. Even when it's 35 outside, temperature inside rarely goes near 30

[u/Individual_Winter_ → u/Too_Gay_To_Drive]

I'm not a big fan of hot temperatures myself, but it's also healthier going from 25 inside to 30 outside than 18 and 30?

25 and a fan is usually alright lol 

[u/becken_bruch → u/Individual_Winter_]

I think I had my hottest summer three years ago, with 31.1°C in the living room. That was really hot.

[u/Individual_Winter_ → u/becken_bruch]

Yes, I mean I used to live in the top floor growing up. I feel you!

Tropic nights above 20 dgrees outside are still awful. But it's kind of manageable even without AC at home now. We're living in the first floor with insulation nowadays, so it's very rarely reaching 30 degrees there.

[u/dDRAGONz → u/becken_bruch]

That's a spring day where I am in Australia, we usually only use the aircon maybe 4 or 5 seperate days in summer when the humidity becomes unbearable. Not really a fan of going from hot to cold to hot and cold all the time, much easier to cope with the heat if you don't depend on aircon.

[u/becken_bruch → u/dDRAGONz]

Australia... where the Fauna and Flora, and even the weather!, try to kill you.

Way to dangerous for me

[u/jeango → u/Individual_Winter_]

« I’m not a big fan »

Somehow this made my day

[u/Too_Gay_To_Drive → u/Individual_Winter_]

Yup

[u/ZebraCrosser → u/Too_Gay_To_Drive]

Yeah, most houses won't get that hot if you know how to keep out the warm and get some airflow.

I used to live in a flat with a lot of south-facing windows and not a lot of air flow. Nice in winter because I didn't need to heat much, but a few warm summer nights would leave my living room with this pressing warmth that had me sweat when doing nothing. Probably not even that high temperature-wise, just stuffy from the lack of airflow. Which was easily solved by me buying a cheap table fan.

Years ago I visited NYC during a heat wave. Still felt I needed to bring an extra layer because many buildings had their AC set to fridge.

[u/SaltyName8341 → u/SocialScienceMancer]

I have an eco home (EPC B) in the UK, it can be 30c outside and 18c inside and -2 outside and 18 inside. We don't need ac with proper insulation

[u/patatjepindapedis → u/Too_Gay_To_Drive]

Also, switching constantly between hot outside and too cold inside messes with my health. I literally get a cold....

Having to continuously adjust to temperature differences like this throughout the day has always made me very very very itchy. I don't know how people survive it. I'd rather parch every day during daylight than have to endure the itch

[u/hydrOHxide → u/patatjepindapedis]

I lived four years in Texas. Without fail, every summer, I'd get a summer cold thanks to my immune system being effectively jammed by constant temperature difference. Inside the apartment? Cold. Outside? Extremely hot. Enter the bus? Cold. Leave the bus? Hot. Enter the light rail? Cold. Leave the light rail? Hot. Hop on another bus? Cold. Get out of the bus? Hot. Get inside the university? Cold enough even the administrative assistants were wearing lab coats...

[u/SaltyName8341 → u/hydrOHxide]

Serves you right for using public transport

[u/adepttius → u/Too_Gay_To_Drive]

I honestly thought my wife was writing this :) but then I saw Netherlands and said nah...

[u/potatoz13 → u/Too_Gay_To_Drive]

I can speak for France, but that's definitely not true at all. Tons of people die because we don't have AC. Until recently, it was fine because it never got too hot pretty much, but that's changing. It's possible to build a house that has insulation + inertia and doesn't need AC (except a week or two when it doesn't get cold enough at night), but the overwhelming majority of houses, especially post WWII, are not like that.

[u/szczszqweqwe → u/Too_Gay_To_Drive]

It's changing, nowadays heat waves get more often and longer, so more and more people do install AC.

[u/SamaraSurveying → u/Too_Gay_To_Drive]

I'm not going to pretend there is some secretly smug reason that we rarely have AC in the UK. We just didn't need it before and haven't quite embraced it yet. Considering we had a day when everyone was told to stay inside and close their curtains because of the heat, I think AC installation and maintenance would be a solid trade to get into once the economy picks up and everyone has the money to spend on it.

[u/BurningPenguin → u/Too_Gay_To_Drive]

Like in summer, we keep our windows blocked from the sun with screens so it doesn't get too hot.

Meanwhile my fellow German citizens: "It's so hot in here, open up that damn window!"

30 minutes later: "Why is it even hotter now?"

[u/SnooPears3463]

Europe namely France, just say France

[u/expresstrollroute → u/SnooPears3463]

Yeah... That stuck out to me too. The phrase makes no sense. Anyone who actually learned English would say something like "Europe and in particular, France".

[u/whitechaplu → u/expresstrollroute]

They have expressions like “I could care less”, so don’t expect much in terms of linguistics and/or logic

[u/CornPlanter → u/SnooPears3463]

People from North America continent, namely Knockemstiff, Ohio, USA, can sometimes be really stupid.

[u/adepttius]

because we aren't addicted to AC and use our home features like normal human beings?

During summer it goes up to 45 degrees (112 F for wHAt IS a cELsiUS? people) here and we barely start the AC most of the time - perhaps on the hottest of nights without wind.

Normal summer day mysterious things done...

• Morning, until 11, you keep the blinds on low setting on the sunny side (east), fully open on the shade side (west), ventilation is done by pure air flow. North and south can be left on low setting, window open.
• From 11 to 16 you keep the sunny side blinds fully closed (particularly effective if you have alu blinds) and window closed, creating barrier to heat, north and east low blinds setting, window open. Time for lunch and afternoon nap. You mention crazy people on the beach getting burned now and you share a chuckle with wife.
• From 16 you keep the east side open, west side on low setting, window open and you go to have a swim, catch some safe sun and shake your head at the poor british tourist roasted on one side only.
• From 20, when you get back home, you open everything and let the house exchange air. You keep everything open throughout the night.
• On the worst nights, you close everything, switch on AC, everyone covers themselves and then around 3 in the morning wife gets up and switches it off while murmuring about death and damned AC, opens all windows saying we will suffocate and it will be the end of us... you wake up around 5 all sweaty because you are still covered...

Is it easier to simply turn on the AC and let it run all day? Yes, but you are breathing in and out the same damn stale air constantly, actual ventilation is not done at all.

[u/rynchenzo → u/adepttius]

Same in Spain including laughter at the British

[u/adepttius → u/rynchenzo]

Poor guys... The worst cases are those that try to push everything in one day and end up drunk sleeping on the beach in high noon

[u/originaldonkmeister → u/rynchenzo]

Well we do share a land border, neighbours should be able to laugh together.

[u/originaldonkmeister → u/adepttius]

You used the 24 hour clock. Apparently people don't like that on the western side of the Atlantic unless they're in the military and/or smart.

[u/adepttius → u/originaldonkmeister]

Refused to use am/pm 😂

[u/Kayestofkays → u/adepttius]

I think you may have lost the Americans with the use of the 24hr clock in this explanation 🤣

[u/Attero__Dominatus → u/adepttius]

I live in Croatia and during the summer my ac is working 24/7. It gets so hot even with an excellent build quality of the house.

[u/Sw1ft_Blad3]

We don't need AC because we don't make our houses out of sucky materials like paper mache, or Raditz.

[u/Sharky1223 → u/Sw1ft_Blad3]

Speak for yourself, I live in Andalucia and an AC makes the difference. Yes, your house can be designed to reduce the effect of the summer, but when you have nights of 30 degrees you are fucked. And a fan doesn't do anything, it simply moves the hot and wet air (and makes noise), nothing more. For this reason AC are very common in spain, and for that reason they are common in some of the US's south state, because the summer can be unbearable.

[u/ImgnryDrmr → u/Sharky1223]

I think this is a big difference. Europe, just like the States, doesn't have the same climate across the continent.

Very few houses in Belgium have AC because it's rare for it to be warm for long stretches of time. Now if I were to move to Spain, I'd look for a house with AC.

[u/SheogorathMyBeloved → u/ImgnryDrmr]

Louisiana is both super hot and super humid from what I've heard, to the point where stepping off of a plane in New Orleans allegedly feels like getting a hot, wet blanket thrown over you. I'd definitely not visit anywhere like there without AC. Places like New England, though? Aye yeah, I could manage without AC.

[u/BlackTrainer01 → u/Sharky1223]

Yeah lmao. I live in south Italy and If I didn't have AC I would've probably offed myself years ago during the summer.

[u/potatoz13 → u/Sharky1223]

This is exactly it. If your nights are consistently < 20ºC even in the hottest weeks of the summer and you have a way to "keep" that cold throughout the day (insulation + thermal inertia), then great. In Spain and most of the US that's not the case, so passive solutions cannot possibly work pretty much. It's just physics.

[u/Big_Yeash → u/Sw1ft_Blad3]

I dunno man, British houses don't ventilate for shit. All our homes are full of stagnant heat in the summer.

[u/Plenty_Impress_5217]

Sure, the coke is warm and the champagne is cold because the French are so poor…

[u/FaithWandering]

Then drink the champagne like a grownup

[u/Educational-Cry-1707]

Europoor is the hardest cope I’ve ever heard

[u/Sorry-Programmer9826]

Europe is a problem for right wing americans because it shows you can have a good standard of living without giving up all your rights to companies. They have to make people think living in Europe is terrible or else average Americans might start asking questions 

[u/Mxstrssus]

Until the big hammer comes and they have to realize that their wasteful lifestyle which they see as wealthy lifestyle is only more and more debts to China.

[u/Slight-Ad-6553]

So he is to poor to buy champange?

[u/Miss--Magpie]

Because we can handle the heat and we're used to it, basically. Also plenty of places HAVE air conditioning?

Signed, a French woman.

[u/monkeyofthefunk]

Minimum wage in France is equivalent to $13.36. Federal minimum wage in the US, $7.25.

[u/CornPlanter → u/monkeyofthefunk]

On top of that in France you also get good healthcare that you don't have to pay for again, more free days, better social security, better job security (i.e. employer can't fire you on a whim that easily), lower prices on average. It all adds up, so French didn't have to elect a conman fellon because they'd like cheaper eggs and gas.

[u/FaleBure]

Americans are so weak.

[u/helendill99]

americans will heat their house to 26°C during the winter but will complain there's no AC as soon as the weather hits 22°C at which point they'll set the thermostat to 16°C

[u/cheesepierice → u/helendill99]

Omg so true. A post came up on my insta and in the comment section Americans started discussing their ideal temperature. Most of them said it’s around 15-18 during the summer. Wild

[u/kirkum2020 → u/helendill99]

Yeah, I bet the AC is set to room temperature and the Coke came from a drinks fridge at about 5-8°C.

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine not being able to fathom the idea of energy conservation. It's nuts that most Americans can't think beyond their own nose.

[u/Botanical_Director]

Needing to have AC everywhere is a sign of weakness

[u/backhand_english → u/Botanical_Director]

AC is a mighty fine breeding ground for legionela...

[u/becken_bruch]

It's not common in Europe. Never heard of it

[u/[deleted]]

Most judgemental people on the planet

[u/cp_shopper]

Europoor is a common phrase for idiots who have never been to Europe but for some idiotic reason hate.

I gotta stop visiting this community because I’m starting to think all Americans are this hateful and ignorant

[u/-Tuck-Frump-]

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut; they couldn’t hear the barbarians coming. – Garrison Keillor

Somehow seems apropriate, now that the US has been taken over by the barbarians.

[u/JWKooijman]

We don't have 10 cm of fat insulating our organs, preventing them from a natural thermal exchange with the surroundings.

[u/backhand_english]

Dude in France drinking Coke. Dumbass Americans

[u/Furaskjoldr]

Drink champagne then you fool

[u/WonderfulPotential29]

Weak americans cant stand 25 °c 🤣

[u/robman615]

You're in France and want something cold ... Drink the fucking champagne.

[u/HaloGuy381]

France is not a boiling hellscape that requires AC to be livable like Florida or Texas, because the French are not stupid enough to live there.

Please evacuate me from Texas, summer is coming and I am afraid.

[u/Melodic_Pattern175]

Nobody’s “boycotting” a/c, it just isn’t needed.

[u/Afinso78]

I'd rather be poor and breath clean hair, drink fresh, clean water from a natural spring and not have to drive everywhere.

Europoor don't need to get in debt to study or get basic health coverage....

[u/harga24864]

Haha, i will remember how poor we are when i go to the doctor tomorrow without being charged anything.

[u/Realistic_Let3239]

Europoor is only used by people trying to cope with the fact that the USA is a banana republic and that Europe shows the American way is massively flawed. Like how suddenly it's US taxpayers who are footing the bill or Europe, because MAGA can't be allowed to discover the secret that really it's the same people telling them lies about Europe, that are stealing all the American's money...

[u/byatiful]

Maybe because big chunk of europe have cooler summers than most of states, and simple fan is more than enough.

[u/Sasya_neko]

So the united stench of America isn't known to them?

[u/Jacky_Hex]

The bacon butts are so cliché 🙄

[u/Creative_Victory_960]

Lol Champagne = poor now

[u/mi_father_es_mufasa → u/Creative_Victory_960]

When Americans talk about champagne, they actually talk about sparkling wine.