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I think european mens clothing has the zipper on the opposite side.
by endofreach 2y ago
I think european mens clothing has the zipper on the opposite side.
- darreninthenet 2y agoDepends what you mean by European... UK men's clothes are the same side (both before and after Brexit )
- JumpCrisscross 2y agoWhen Americans say European we mean continental, i.e. mainland Western Europe.
- kingkawn 2y agoPretty sure when Americans say European they mostly mean a bizarre conglomeration of stereotypes that fits no actual country
- gsliepen 2y agoTo be fair, that's the same when Europeans talk about Americans.
- yau8edq12i 2y agoThe USA is much, much more homogeneous than Europe.
- beretguy 2y agoI wouldn’t say that. I am from Europe and I’ve never seen as much diversity as in usa.
- michaelt 2y agoJust count the number of official languages.
- grardb 2y agoThe US has no official languages, so by that metric, the US is the most homogenous country in the world. FWIW, as an American living in Europe, I do agree that the US is far more homogenous.
- beretguy 2y agoA lot of people in usa don’t even speak English. I constantly run into those even in the South, let alone big big cities which have posters/ads/instructions label/etc. in foreign languages in public places.
- endofreach 2y agoGuess how many people in europe don't even speak: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish or Swedish... or even Esperanto!
- yau8edq12i 2y agoSeriously? In my experience, having lived in several places in Europe and in the US: Americans like to pretend that calling it "pop" or "soda" depending on where you are in the country, or Chicagoans having a deeper pizza while food in the bayou is spicier, or Californians liking surf while Iowans are into hunting, constitutes fundamental differences. Meanwhile, they all share the same overall culture: same language, same tv shows, same movies, same school systems, same university systems, same sports, same music, same historical figures and references, same laws, same political figures and topics... There are slight variations here and there, of course; just like in any European country. But ask a Hungarian and a Spanish person if they watched the same shows as kids or learned the same stuff in school, and see where that gets you. Most Americans I've met take their country's cultural baseline for granted and magnify the slight differences among themselves.
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- KineticLensman 2y agoPerhaps similar to a European’s view of the USA
- yau8edq12i 2y agoEastern Europe, Northern Europe etc are not "continental"? That's weirdly reductive.
- Rinzler89 2y agoAmericans don't think too much about those "commies" in Eastern Europe when doing comparisons. For them Europe is only where they go on vacation: Paris, Rome, Berlin, Barcelona, Lisbon, etc. Same how for us America is mostly New York, Los Angeles, Texas, etc
- ghaff 2y agoQuite a few Americans vacation in Eastern Europe these days, eg Prague. But you’re right that wasn’t historically the case. I didn’t really until my last job because we had a facility and associated events in Brno in cz.
- closewith 2y agoThree of your examples (Rome, Barcelona, and Lisbon) aren't in Western Europe, so don't fit the GP's definition of continental Europe. My own experience with Americans is that Europe could be any number of definitions. I'd be wary of assuming your own is generally accepted.
- simonbarker87 2y agoIsn’t Lisbon the most western capital city in Europe? Not sure how that doesn’t count as Western Europe? As a Brit I maybe have a different view of eastern and Western Europe but to me the dividing line is probably a vertical line through … Prague?
- walthamstow 2y agoTraditionally the dividing line is Vienna, though that doesn't make it any clearer because Prague is west of Vienna
- lupusreal 2y agoMost Americans consider the UK to be European.
- Angostura 2y agoExcept Ireland, Britain etc is on the same continent.
- toxik 2y agoCan confirm, moving part is held in right hand on everything I own, and also everything my daughter or partner own.
- thaumasiotes 2y agoThe receptacle is the moving part.
- swores 2y ago"Receptacle" isn't seemingly a common term for zips, but you're wrong - in the comment above they definitely use "receptacle" to describe the non-moving part, and as a word it is similar to the term I find on various diagrams of zips for the non-moving part: "retainer" / "retainer box". Quoting their comment: "(the tab is on the right, the receptacle for the tab is on the left)" [in the US]. "Tab" (or "pull tab") is definitely the bit that goes up and down, and it's typically on the right in UK/Europe, but on the left in the US. See for example https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a5/da/f8/a5daf8ec0566dac1826b9cd627dc10f8.png https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a5/da/f8/a5daf8ec0566dac1826b... I'd be curious to know what made you assume receptacle would be the moving part if you don't mind saying? Even though it's not a term I've heard used for zippers before, the second I read it I thought "that's a good clear term that's obviously for the bit that receives the moving tab".
- thaumasiotes 2y agoWhat made me assume that the receptacle is the moving part is pretty straightforward - the moving part is the only part of the zipper that you put something else into. I still don't see how "receptacle" could apply to anything else. You zip up a zipper by picking up the bottom of the other side and inserting that into the moving part. That makes the moving part a "receptacle". The zippers that I'm familiar with don't have bottom stops or retainer boxes. I'm looking at a YKK zipper on my jacket right now; there are two pull tabs, one above the other. This allows you to have the top zipped while the bottom is unzipped. (I should note that my all-American L. L. Bean jacket has the tabs on the right, and I'm inclined to say that this is true generally of American zippers. But I only have the one zipper on hand. This is another reason why indicating that having the receptacle on the left is backwards from normal might tend to indicate that the receptacle is the moving part.) Because it's obvious that the "receptacle" must necessarily refer to the moving part of the zipper (as described above), I assumed that "tab" referred to the bottom of the other side of the zipper, basically just the part of the zipper where the teeth end and the whole thing comes to a stop. I guess in your image this is the "insertion pin". I still feel justified in assuming that the "receptacle" is the part that receives the "insertion pin".
- KineticLensman 2y agoBrit here. I bought a jacket in the US once and the zip was opposite to what I would normally expect.