What is normal in your country but weird in the rest of the world?

What is normal in your country but weird in the rest of the world?

Iceland here.

• If it’s 10degrees or hotter outside [50 degrees Fahrenheit, for Americans] we will go out in bikinis and sunbathe
• Almost every family owns at least one summer cabin that is frequently visited
• We say ‘good morning’ or ‘good evening’ to everyone we pass on the street, depending on the time of day
• We will often have long discussions (*hem* arguments) of what type of snow is snowing at the moment
• The first real day of summer was three days ago and almost everyone took a break from work to go and enjoy it (it was around 14 degrees or something)
• It snows from August to June
• All the houses are built like fortresses so they can withstand the frequent earthquakes
• We await the next volcanic eruption with excitement

(Eyjafjallajökull, 2010)

• Most of us watch football religiously
• Dried fish is a delicacy

• We loudly announce when we go to the toilet and ask if we have permission to do so
• Going on dates is a formal and a rare experience, not standard at all
• Blind dates is something that doesn’t happen
• In swimming pools we wash without clothes with everyone else of the same gender, no stalls
• We drink a lot of milk —it goes with everything
• We leave our babies outside in their prams -of cafes, our homes, in the garden, in our unlocked cars
• We love sauces; we probably have hundreds of different types, also ice cream shops normally have about six different sauces
• We will have barbecues in any weather
• We drink lots of alcohol: beer, wine, you name it
• It’s never cold inside our houses, ever
• We party until way after midnight —if you are camping and want to sleep, don’t camp next to Icelanders
• Believing in elves and trolls is normal and we have tons of stories that we’ve been told about them since we were young
• We have 13 Santa Clauses

edit : some more for y’all + pics on the original answer

• We have a Christmas Cat that, if you don’t get new clothes for christmas, will come and eat you (particularly children)

• The christmas cat is owned by a pair of trolls called Grýla and Leppalúði. they are the Santa Clauses’ parents, who are also trolls.
• Grýla kidnaps, cooks and eats misbehaving children.

• We have a day dedicates to eating these delicious balls of air

• The water quality is 500% and so when we visit other countries we are dying because the water tastes so bad there
• We are taught from a young age that we should never ever ever step on the moss and if you do then u deserve to burn in hell (ok maybe not but that’s the idea)
• Everyone hates Justin Bieber for that music video he did. (+We had to close down the park a part of it was shot in because the tourists were tearing up the moss.)
• In winter we all wear the thickest coats you’ll see while still trying to stay fashionable and we all look giant
• Conjugation is a thing so a noun has 16 different variations of itself.
• Tourism is the top industry of Iceland
• Ice cream is enjoyed whenever; in a snow storm or on a rare hot day; doesn’t matter

Picture Source Google

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