FRENCH CULTURE SHOCKS | Culture Shocks Back In France After 3 Years 😱
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After my big move to France, I was living in Paris in 6 years and very much experiencing life in France as an expat. I knew about the french stereotypes but not really what is life really like in France. Since that day, I became fascinated with all things french people habits, culture shocks, French people, French people habits, French culture shocks and expat life France.
Now, after 3 years away, my expat life in Paris seems far, far away and I wondered if those little French culture shocks / things you notice in France would still come to me! Turns out I am still prone to a france culture shock or two and am back yet again to talk french culture shock, life in France, French culture tips and what is it like living in France.
What about you? Have you had some France culture shocks?
Looking forward to hearing from you in the comments!
Bisous
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The coin in the supermarket trolley has existed since the 1980s, before that many people once loaded their shopping into their vehicle leave it there instead of putting it back in the planned location sometimes even just behind the car next to theirs. When the store closed in the evening, employees had to collect the carts. the supermarkets were fed up, they invented this consignment system
Laziness
As a foreigner living in France I still forget the coin sometimes and get very annoyed, HOWEVER I think this is a great way of making people develop new habits.
I grew up in a country where to this day people leave the trolleys anywhere in the parking lot and supermarket employees collect them from time to time and I’m ashamed to say that I only noticed how messed up this is after living abroad…
In the US stores often have specific “corrals” spaced throughout the parking lot For customers to leave their carts. Then periodically a store employee makes a big line of carts and pushes them back to the store.
In some cases, where people did use the carts To take the groceries home, governors have been put on the carts so that if you try to move them past a certain point, the wheels lock.
@@NotEvenFrench No, the good question is : "why should I take this trolley back, 40 meters from my car?"
When I first moved to the Washington DC area, they had come up with an even worse solution. They put pylons around the front sidewalk of the store so that trolleys cannot be taken into the parking lot *at all*. This basically forced everyone to leave their full carts near the front door, go to their car, drive it to the front of the store, and load it from there. As you can imagine, when the store is busy, finding a spot to load near the front door was an absolute nightmare and the punchline is that people who never put their carts in the corral in the parking lot also don't return them to the trolley queue in front of the store either so you would have to slalom around loose carts when you left the store also. Fortunately, over the years, enough people have complained that the pylons have since been removed from all the stores that had them, at least in more suburban areas.
The aversion to air flow is very common in older cultures. In Chinese medicine, “wind” disrupts blood flow and circulation and is believed to cause pain, arthritis, headaches and even mild paralysis ( even in western medical textbooks Bell’s Palsy can be caused by driving in a convertible!). It’s all about balance but as you said, extreme heat also disrupts our health as well! The other part is that in the summer going quickly from heat to cold (AC) is too abrupt for our immune systems. It’s similar to telling your child to wear a hat in winter to avoid getting a “chill”. Ever wondered why we call it a “cold”? The English speaking world used to have similar ideas about temperatures and the effect that it has on our immune systems.
In Chinese cuisine, people ALL dishes
even hot weather or climate leng pan
( color dishes or plates) that are 1st cooked,.then refrigerated..This follows
basic medical + ontological theories, here, the yin yang theory including
cold + hot.
By the way, I don't know if you ever watch Justine Leconte, but she just posted a video about her culture shocks coming back to live in France after living in Germany for years, and one of the things she mentioned was also the food, not just the eating, but the prep, the discussions both before and after, and just how much time people spend talking about it. 😄
@@NotEvenFrench 😂😂
I grew up in a Francophile household and remembering how bored to tears I was with all the food talk. I think it helped them relate without ever talking about anything personal. One could have differences, complain and go on and on and on and think it was meaningful.
You just reminded me.
I remember how amazed I was that other families actually had conversations at dinner.
Now that I am moving to France and remembering this I think it’s something I really dread. Does not interest me at all but then maybe I’ll adjust. I hope so!
The problem with air conditioning is also that it's very bad for environment. And as for me, I have difficulties to breathe when AC is high. But I love fans, I even sleep with them because the noise relaxes me.
You seem quite happy to be back in France and sharing your quirky experiences. I loved this video discussion.
Here in Australia we have the trolley coin thing at Aldi and Costco. I think it’s more to encourage the return of the trolley to the bay than a preventative against theft.
I live in England but my family are from Galicia in Spain and I could definitely relate to the issue of air currents/draughts. My grandparents were absolutely convinced that if there was a draught running through the house we would get ill and indeed if we came down with a cold we would be told it was probably because we were sitting in a 'corriente'. Also the peeling of fruit is totally relatable. My whole family eat apples, pears etc with a knife, peeling off the skin then eating the fruit.
The door handle thing is something we have here in the UK. Our patio doors (aka french doors) have a handle that has to be pulled up to lock. The trolley thing has been around here for quite a while too for the reasons others in the comments have pointed out. I'm guessing that people in New Zealand are a more considerate lot who return their trolleys when finished, which is really rather lovely.
*I know lots of people who don't like sleeping with a fan but they complain they can't sleep because of the heat... I can't sleep without a fan if it's more than 25°C because I'll wake up all wet ! I love A/C !!!*
Hi, I live in Seattle where we get a lot of cold, gray, and rainy days. I was in the south of France for three months studying French and returned at the end of June. My classroom in Nice was regularly 28 degrees and when I would ask about climatisation the instructor and others would express shock that I was hot. One day the instructor agreed to set the climat to 27 but complained je gele, je gele several times during class and the climat was never turned on again. Because of the climate where I live, I almost never need heat and I was a bit frustrated that no one had any empathy for someone being from a different climate.
Hi there, as a French from the north west of France were the climate is much more great britain alike I suffer too from the legend that you have to endure heat, that it is easy to handle … the city of Nice is not at all reprentative of the French climate and of the french culture, this is a mediteranean city when France is rather of a west/Northen Europe culture and has a very moderate climate where 28 stops or impacts a normal day. In the south with the heat you are used to hide in you houses during hot hours when in the rest of the 3/4 of France are used to get out, work , make some sport at any time of the day outside…
Bonjour Rosie,
The trolley thing, we have that in Australia as well, you have to put in a coin or a token, I don’t think it’s to prevent theft so much as to make people return the trolley to the designated bays, instead of leaving them haphazardly around the carpark, where they can cause damage to people and other vehicles.
Is it recent that you have those in Australia ? I spent 2 years in Oz back in 2015-2017 and I don't remember this but employees collecting the trolleys (or was it New Zealand ? 🤔)
Hi, I'm French, I don't think air conditioning will make me sick, I'm just being environmentally friendly. I also prefer having no AC because the watertight windows situation needed for AC makes me claustrophobic. Hate mosquitoes, though!
I am french too and that one thing my mother used to tell me :-) about air conditioning
I am a kiwi guy whom has married a French woman. We currently live in New Zealand but will move to France one day soon. I guess I’m gonna find this stuff out for myself pretty soon.
I started watching your videos religiously when i first visited paris, and long story short I live here now and im eternally grateful for you and your content! I actually just moved here a week ago and its been great!
That coin for the shopping cart is a thing in the UK too. You need to insert a pound to release the chain. It's not for theft of carts, it's a way to force ppl to return the cart to it's place. The only way to get your pound back is to clip the chain back in. So obviously eveyone want their pound back so the trollies are always back to their line. I think it's a brilliant thing.
Late last year my husband and I booked a last-minute Airbnb in London and it ended up being on the same street where I used to live, just a few doors down. I totally relate to your nostalgia!
Hello ! I'm French and I wanted to be reassuring: for the first part of my life, I was like you. I couldn't eat anything coming from the sea. The smell was not possible for me. And people were curious about it but they got used to it quickly. I slowly started to eat fish when I stopped eating meat. But don't worry, I know at least three persons who don't like fish. You are not alone! ;)
Salut Rosie ! I am so happy that you are enjoying your time in France. Fun video!
When i first followed your channel i never thought id get to live in France, but as of October, i will be! And im so excited. Thank you for the videos.
Bienvenue bientôt en France ! Dans quelle ville ?
The fruit washing thing may be a new thing? I don’t get the peeling of the fruit thing as being cleaner since the chemicals are absorbed wholly by the entire plant. I do wash my produce in soapy water since contamination is a real thing and I don’t know who or what came in contact with it. A touch of apple cider vinegar in the soapy water is also great.
I was shopping in FNAC in Nîmes in the electronics department and had a mixed but relatively good experience with customer service.
The negative part was the young salesman didn’t think this old lady knew what she was doing looking for a power bank for her phone. He was very dismissive. My French isn’t good enough to ask technical questions, so I bought the thing he recommended.
Then, reading about it, I went to customer service and they were fantastic! Super helpful. Found someone knowledgeable who spoke English. Agreed I had been sold the wrong thing. Told someone what to get me instead and then let me back to the front of the line, processed the exchange and refunded my balance. Took less than 10 minutes and it was really a delightful experience!
It can happen, people!
You're back!
So excited to try picards!!!
When i worked as a travel agent in oz its was a great tool in helping people be more appreciative of services with management of expectations
If you start with really low expectations your always going to be happier when your upgraded, have a shorter travel time, less layover is thats your preference , cheaper, more inclusions, better hotel
Thanks Rosie 😊
Hi 😊 Just a small precision regarding the signs about not throwing cigaret butts and reducing speed: it's because of the heat wave - IE higher risks of fires and pollution. It's not all year long, nor everywhere in France! Thanks for your videos, always fun to watch as a french person (and btw I live abroad and I'm sick all summer long because of AC 😅)
Hi Rosie! Love your videos ☺️ We’re Kiwis ( hubby was UK!) back in our wee house in SE just up from Spanish border. I don’t speak much French (but hubby does )and apart from “ stuff” like the banque etc taking forever, we find service people to be very friendly….just got a new fridge and they had to take the front door off in the heat, …no problem, picking plants up from the market, parking in the wrong place….police were brisk but amused!! The door handle thing is also in the UK….had trouble locking my cousin’s front door🤣and same with shopping trolleys. The heat has been the undoing of my dignity when in my bid to make conversation with our local patron at the bar, when asked how I was I replied “Je suis chaud” 😱I will never live this down….Lingoda here I come 🤣
Enjoy your time back in your other home. Keep up the good work ☺️
Hi Elizabeth, the "je suis chaude" thing reminded me of one of my former British pupils , a charming expat lady. She was having workmen inside the house she'd just purchased here in the south of France, and when she came in one day from errands exclaiming : "oh, je suis chaude", they were appalled. They said : " Oh, Madame, vous ne devez JAMAIS dire ça !". She was puzzled. She asked me and when I told her she'd been saying :" I'm horny", she blushed all over ! And never forgot to say : j'ai chaud instead.
hello rosie, welcome back to france ! I'm also French and I think that for the air conditioning it's like you mentioned because we risk getting sick. but it's also because using it too much is bad for the environment and the planet (global warming etc) the French are trying to impact the planet a little less and we find other solutions to cool down . it's better to think of everyone. :)
AC was not available even before the climate crisis
Strange -
My experience with French people (well, mostly Parisians) is that they are VERY helpful. Sure, you need to make the effort and speak as much French as you possibly can, and the will certainly complain about it - but they'll help.
In the UK, in contrast, they will apologies countless times, but will not lift a finger.
It’s not because people steal the trolley!!! It’s used to discourage you -- not to leave it in the middle of the road or just in the parking next to where your car was before you loaded the stuff….
Aldi stores (grocery stores) here in the U.S. lock their carts up and we use a quarter to use them, getting it back when you return it and lock it back up.
Great video! 🤗❤️ Although, I’m with the French haha - can’t relate to the seafood part. It’s my biggest guilty pleasure and a reason I can’t fully go veggie yet and stick to being a pesceterian. Days with fish / seafood are such a treat 😋🤪
IMHO, you could turn these experiences into a comedy routine for your French audience. Especially when you make the faces.
It's not about trolley's thives, it was about putting your trolley where you found it. Not all over the parking lot as it was before. Incredibly, it works!
The trolley thing is more so people can bring them back to the right place instead of just leaving them everywhere on the carpark or on the streets.. like we can see often in New Zealand. :)
I grew up always being told never to sit in a draught (pronounced draft). I guess that would be my translation of courant d’air. Older people tended to be obsessed with draughts.
Where are you from? (Your name doesn't look French!) Are you perhaps English?
Same here. Watch you don't get a draught on your neck was a common thing to here. Im in UK, if I have my small fan on for any length of time I get a sore throat, its circulating the air in the room, doesn't really cool it down.
@@tulipwindmill So odd... growing up in Central Florida, our first house (until I was nine) didn't have air conditioning, and I fell asleep with a fan in the room every warm night from basicaly birth to 9 years old. Never had a sore throat as a result.
Maybe it depends on how humid and hot the air is?
@@LauraMorland I have no idea why. I know people here who sleep with a fan on every night and it doesnt bother them.
I’m very happy you have returned to France 🇫🇷. I’m going to Paris for the first time! 🤗
Ice Cubes... From visiting friends in the MidWest in America. Mosquito bite solution, simply ice cubes. Put the cube directly on the bite. You can go out and enjoy the evening and the lightening bugs, you'll pay for it. So... Make sure there's ice in the fridge!
The service people and customer is always wrong. 10 years on and I am still not used to it, not really. "C'est pas possible!" I said it out-loud before you did, knowing what you were going to say in advance. "Si, c'est possible" BECAUSE IT JUST HAPPENED. Endless negotiation and condescension. They've gotten a bit better, but this approach is pretty ingrained, it seems. What a relief to hear you identify these things that we become accustomed to without wanting to, really. I love life in France and have no serious plans to return to the States, but you are absolutely spot on. Thank you!
Can you ask Neils if he interprets customer service in France differently than foreigners?
Trolley coin is designed to get people to return the trolleys to the front.
Welcome back Rosie, j’ai beaucoup aimé ta vidéo, c’est super intéressant d’avoir le point de vue des autres sur nos habitudes françaises ! Bisous
Welcome back, Rosie! Loved the vid.
I'm French but can totally relate to some of these. I hate cheese (argh!) and after YEARS, my in-laws still seem shocked every time this comes up ("Tu veux du fromage ? Ah, oui c'est vrai. Même pas du comté ??"). Also, yes, A/C isn't in our culture and is bad for the environment - so is heating, though! -, but I admit I'd love for it to be blasted in the subway when it's 34°C+. The Paris metro in a heatwave = pure hell, what with people fainting and causing more issues.
ps. Picard is life!
I love that -- même pas du comté ? That must be their favorite cheese, as it is mine. Plus, it's not a runny or "stinky" cheese, and so they're hoping that you'll give in....
Interesting video, it makes me miss France. The trolly coin and the lifting door handle up are here in Ireland too. We also have a supermarket called “Iceland” which sells frozen food (but defo not super high quality) and my Danish ex couldn’t wrap his head around it. It was so funny
Wow wow We make courant d’air all the time when it’s hot! (If you have the luck to have an Appartement on two sides). But beware if the night gets cold… sleeping in a courant d’air might get you sick!
OMG I miss Picard so much!! LOVE PICARD
Hey Rosie, happy for you that you're back! Yes it has been a very intense month here and not being able to sleep for several weeks, I don't know how I got any work done ... 😓🥵
What you're saying about AC is very surprising to me. Our neighbors blocked half a window to be able to install an A/C, my French acquaintances said they only survived because of the A/C, with everyone who doesn't have one I've just been talking about how we try to survive, at home we always open all the windows at night because otherwise we die ... I've never heard anyone speaking against AC, but maybe people in Haute-Garonne are just suffering enough from the heat 😅
I love Picard as well!
I live in France and from the UK, I hate air conditioning. In the summer you dress to be cool then you get a massive shock going into a shop with AC. Horrible. I’d rather be hot. I use a fan sometimes, manual or electric. I use a mosquito net around mybed.
Canadian here :)
My French bf never had ac his whole life until we moved to Spain and had ac in our apartment. He can’t live without it now 🤣
For me coming from Canada I always had ac in our home. Since moving back to the south of France we talked our landlady into buying us a portable ac system this summer. I can’t be hot 24/7. We work from home so impossible to focus while wanting to pass out from heat.
Nice to see you back 😊
BEST day of my life in Sweden.. . .when the local grocery store got Picard croissants. ahhhhhhhhh so nice. When it comes to the grocery trollies we have that here in Sweden as well and it's not so that people won't steal them, it's so that they put them back where they belong. . ..which was a REAL issue in the States but people would be irate if you implemented the same system there.
17:24 In Normandie, we call that way of clossing a door with the slang verb "Clancher".
hello Rosie,,, the "door handle" for me! 🤣I am a south african living in france. Its crazy!
Rosie!
@@NotEvenFrench Bonjour Rosie! It’s so good to see you back my friend!
@@NotEvenFrench you’re welcome 😉
We should catch up on Instagram
The skin of the fruit & vegetables is the most nutritional
We have door handles like that in UK too and tokens for shopping trollies. Bonnes vacances!
I am french and this is unfortunately so true Rosy about people working in services 😆
In the US a few grocery stores, like ALDI, use the coin system so that people will return the cart to the station. It also keeps employees from constantly going out to collect carts for customers to use. I think that here it’s more so due to laziness, safety, and convenience for the next customer rather than cart theft.
Personnellement, j’épluche très très peu mes fruits et les gens autour de moi non plus donc ce que tu dis m’étonne
The coin in the trolley is not because people might steal it. It's so that people will bring the trolley back to the place where they are stored (where you got it) instead of leaving them anywhere and then staff have to spend time collecting trolleys. Welcome back!
I checked today if you had given a French update. Yay! You look amazing Rosie!
Fun video!! Can’t wait to see more!
Hey, Aussie here, justw anted to say the trolley think is in Australia too. But I think its not to stop them getting stolen - its to encourage people to leave them in the right spot (like back in the trolley bay / inside the shop) so they dont have to spend time racing around collecting trolleys from all over the car park
Hi Rosie! Love your channel! Here in the states, we have the shopping carts with the chain at one of the grocery store chains - aldi. A quarter has to be put in to get the cart. I believe it’s so guests have to put the cart back instead of leaving it in the parking lot which happens so much.
Aldi is European! I think it's a European thing....
@@LauraMorland I experienced those carts before Aldi.
@@Toywins Where?
The coin for the trolley is just to encourage customers to take the trolley back to the trolley station so the supermarket doesn't need to employ someone to gather all the abandoned trolleys.
Rosie, LOVE your channels: ALWAYS such useful info. Question: are there any companies providing «American»-styled customer service that is customer/client-centered and problem-solving-focused? How would the French receive such a practice where they were greeted with « yes, sure ! » first instead of « Non, c'est pas possible, eh ! » ?
Great question! How do you French folks find the experience of good customer service when you travel to the US/NZ/ Australia?
Do you notice a difference? How do you explain the French contempt for the customer we feel?
The fish thing is interesting - I have French friends in Normandy and they don't eat a lot of seafood, they don't eat clams or oysters at all...
Honestly the peeling thing must be something your boyfriend's family does, I never do it and I don't know many people who peel their fruit !
I also think the coin thing on the trolley is more so people will bring it back to the trolley storage and not just leave it randomly on the car park or something because if you did that everytime you would lose 1euro everytime
Vos imitations sont tjrs hilarantes. Celles sur le poisson. Je voyais toute la scène.
@@NotEvenFrench Mais oui. Regardez cet extrait sur le poisson de nouveau. Le ton, le choix des mots et les expressions du visage.
Je peux comprendre car avec ma soeur québécoise.
On pouvait parler bouffe pendant des heures. Mais c'est plutôt exceptionnel.
Plus usuel pour les Français.
Par conséquent, pour une personne qui ne connaît pas la culture.
La personne se dit mais qu'est-ce qu'elle en a à foutre que je mange du poisson ou pas.
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Bref, j'ai autant rit que votre vidéo sur les habitudes françaises que vous avez gardé en NZ.
L'impatience ds les files d'attente, etc.
J'adore.
Welcome back to France! You look so exited to be there and I love these videos! I am so sorry my French friends, but this American lady CANNOT survive a heat wave without air conditioning! I have my central air temperature set on 68-70 degrees F at all times winter and summer both!
@@NotEvenFrench in the south, it's different. But in Paris (where I live) , you really need the air conditioning system only 10/12 days a year! Not so important. We will see what happened in the next few years... 😉
We notice that in the south of France there are outside washing machines at the supermarkets
They’re in West France too, eg outside Supermarche. Also in the UK such as near Birmingham. We had to use one once when camping, it was a godsend.
Welcome back 😚
Bon séjour !
That explains why I had so much trouble locking the doors in France!
Enjoy the 3 month stay!!
In the states, Aldi’s does that so that you return the cart, that way they don’t have to hire people to go get them and bring them back to the store.
In the US I remember yrs ago, at the grocery store Shop Rite, you would have to put a quarter to use it.
The trolley thing is a thing in the uk too! Not all supermarkets, some have got rid of it. It’s annoying though as barely have cash any more..
Le jeton ou la pièce ce n'est pas pour éviter le vol de chariot mais pour forcer à ranger ce chariot là où il ne bougera pas et n'ira pas percuter une autre véhicule ou gênera la circulation. Le français étant indiscipliné cette méthode le contraint.
I’ve lived in France for 7 yrs and I’ve never been to Picard !! Assumed it was rubbish. Going tomorrow.
Being a kiwi what really freaked me out in France was the windows. Handle down window opens in as a casement, handle up window opens out as an awning. Being a window guy that really got me thinking.
All of Europe has windows like these, haha
@@Leopold_van_Aubel yeah they are neat windows.
Hello Rosie !
Nice video. Although it is odd, I am French and I never saw someone wash or peel their cherries… and we eat apple with their skins too.
Maybe it’s an habit in your husband family or its region…
Chere Rosie, this was so much fun, seeing your fresh reactions!
I get frustrated when dealing with bureaucracy, so my blood pressure and cortisol levels would shoot up in France. I think this all is planned (here in the States, it's typical behavior of government workers who have great job security), to discourage people from "bothering" the workers. And people do tend to enjoy their power over others, especially their petty authority.
In re: your belle-mere returning the car battery: I do not worry about returning things I buy because I pay with a credit card, and the credit companies will stop the payment to the store if I contest the charge. That is one of the advantages of paying with a CC.
I also think it is a "little woman" issue ... Everyone thinks they can take advantage of women, because, generally, they do so with impunity. Even in 2022.
I am delighted that you checked in with your NEF fans! I can't believe it's been THREE years since you married and moved back to NZ!
Wishing you happiness and everything wonderful!
L'émission Top Gear diffusée hier soir se déroulait en partie en Nouvelle Zélande, on pouvait voir un des trois animateurs tenter de battre un catamaran de compétition avec une voiture de location.
Ce qui m'a étonné dans cette voiture, c'est la présence d'un autocollant 'keep left' avec une flèche vers la gauche, collé sur la planche de bord.
Je me demande si cet autocollant est présent dans toutes les voitures de location en Nouvelle Zélande, ou seulement dans celles louées à des touristes européens.
Contrairement à mes compatriotes, je suis pour les climatiseurs, mais comme l'entretien des filtres est souvent négligé, certains appareils peuvent effectivement polluer l'air
avec des virus et des bactéries.
Actually le air bnb mais en fond vert.
Oh ..I where I come from...not France...we do dunk bread, crackers on coffee or chocolate for breakfast really if you want that will be at any time ..bread and coffee..yeah...never knew about that was done there..yummy
Idk if someone already write it in the comments but for trolleys I asked me why we have to put a fake coin in a trolley. So I searched and it's could be because in this way customers have to put away their trolley to get back their coin. Otherwise customers not always put away their trolley.
We just moved from India to île de France 🇫🇷…
So ineteresting to hear your culture shocks after all that time away from France! I am Greek and I have a mixed opinions about them.
I always thought the AC was an innocent thing, until 3 years ago I got pneumonia in Geece, in July (!) so I'm avoiding them too...
About the troley thing, I'm pretty sure the thing with the coin (which we have in Greece too) is to make us put the troley back in its place (and take our coin back) because otherwise we would leave them all over the parking lot..... Crazy but true....
I think I agree with you on the rest. Bisous!
You didn't get pneumonia from AC, you would have had to have contracted a bacteria or virus.
@@woodnymph01 It started as a simple cold (from AC)
and turned into pneumonia
@ A cold is a caused by a virus, not AC. If the AC is keeping somewhere insanely cold and you're weak and/or elderly such cold temps may inhibit your immune system but it would have to very very cold. This is like the old wives tale that going out with wet hair will give you a cold.
@@woodnymph01 Actually, I was at my mom's and she insists to keep the AC at 16 degrees celcious and when we tell her we're cold, she thinks we're over reacting. What can I say, I'm not a doctor, I did get to the hospital back then and I still can't justify pneumonia in July, in Greece any other way.
OMG I am Italian and I think Italy and France are so similar! The majority of things apply to Italy, too. We are not fans of air conditioning 😅 They love fish (I am like you, it smells and it looks disgusting to me).
People from the New World ( Canada , U.S , Australia or New Zealand)are too much into their little comfort zone
( A/C ,language ,culture and food) . As they are less Lively to adapt abroad
Bonjour Rosie!
As I watched this I was dunking my croissant in my earl grey tea 😅
It's sad that we're still so bad with our service industry. It's slowly getting better, compared to let's say 10 years ago, but meh.
Regarding the AC, maybe it's my Frenchness but it makes the air really dry, and my sinuses hate that. It doesn't make you sick per se, but it doesn't help. Now my workplace here in the south west has AC, which was a blessing during those canicule days, and I'd go to work solely to draw under the AC, no matter how my sinuses felt. But I put the AC at 25/26° and my colleagues systematically arrive sweaty from outside and put it at 22°, which is soooo much worse for the environment. AC in general is terrible for the environment and for that reason alone we should use it as little as possible, but 22° when it's 38° outside is a crime 😅
On épluche rarement les fruits si c'est pour les manger tels quels. Par contre, pour cuisiner les fruits et légumes, on épluche effectivement. Ça permet de retirer des textures fibreuses ou avec un goût trop prononcé ou simplement pour une obtenir une présentation plus sophistiquée (ou moins rustique). Je pense que l'intérêt de cette pratique est démontré par la passion des gens du monde entier pour la cuisine française.
La climatisation ne rend pas malade en elle-même, quoiqu'une climatisation mal entretenue peut parfaitement causer des infections. Ce sont les courants d'air et les différences de températures qui posent problème. Sujet aux sinusites chroniques, je ne suis jamais autant malade qu'en présence de climatisation. Trop froide en été, trop chaude en hiver, trop de personnes avec des attentes différentes. C'est quand même mieux, et plus écologique, de faire avec ce qu'on a... Et il y a de nombreuses astuces et techniques ancestrales pour garder le frais dans nos intérieurs. À commencer par bannir le béton moche et inefficace des constructions...
The clicker works because the current is anti bacterial, it kills the biological agent that is causing the sting. You see LED blue light versions of this as well
I think it’s an incentive to return your trolley, so they don’t require staff to wander around collecting them.
interesting, i am na expat in Italy, living here for a year.lots of similarities! peeling fruit and veg, customer service.. and bugs
Do you eat snails?? (politely known as escargot). Here in Florida, USA we know that when seafood 'smells' it is often off, so perhaps the French are serving bad seafood. Divers scallops, fresh shrimp, octopus, clams and mussels - not just fish - should have little to no scent before cooking. Maybe you are just being unusually cautious because of a forgotten bad experience. I rarely eat seafood when out because I didn't handle it before cooking and have no idea of the freshness. Fortunately, there are some local places I trust implicitly and have never had an issue in my years of patronage, but there is nothing more certain or more memorable than being sick from 'off' seafood! I applaud your caution.
In response to your point about there being more insects and creepy crawlies because of climate change, it's actually the opposite. Insect populations are collapsing with a global decline of about 2.5% per year and it's deeply concerning. It's not necessarily the increasing temps that are killing them but many of the things that are contributing to climate change such as deforestation and habitat loss are driving the decline in insects.
I'm in Canada, having lived in one area all of my considerable years and it's definitely a whole ecosystem change. Birds and bats are big eaters of insects too, so if those two things are lacking in an area there are more insects. I was recently at a municipal recreation kind of area, golf course velodrome playing fields and noticed there were zero flowers- over several acres zero flowers. Add in high housing development and the poor ecosystem just doesn't have a chance :(
You are not crazy about the services it just become worse and worse indeed!! People are more aggressive more insulting...
You didn't get it for the trolley, it's not to prevent people for stealing them, it's to force people to place them back in line, otherwise people would just abandon them all over the place on the parking lot. And actually the fake plastic disk works even better than the coin, because if you may decide to abandon 50 cents and leave the trolley there, let's say because you're in hurry, actually you don't want to abandon your plastic disk because it would make your keychain, where the plastic disk is attached, unusable. The keychain plastic disk is actually very useful to people because once they have it (usually holding their car's keys) they know that they will always be able to get a trolley without risking the trouble to have to make change in case they don't have 50 cents in their wallet...
It's always nice to dive back into the culture shock topic. For someone who hasn't had first hand experience, it's a great way to learn something and be well entertained at the same time.
But... I must ask... what is going on on the left side of the frame? It's lighter, and your hand and shoulder just don't appear there is they were cut off. Idk, it doesn't really take away from the quality of the video but it's kinda irritating...
I noticed that, too. It's seems that Rosie covered up our right side (her left side) of the frame with a photograph of her background. And so every time she gestured with her left hand -- once even the left side of her head! -- it disappeared.
Rosie, I'm guessing there was something in the background that you wanted to cover up, and so you took a photo, matched it up, and pasted it over that part of your video. (Am I right?)
*I eat fruits WITH the skin ! lol And lots of French people do the same. I just wash them before.* 😉
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I live in Phoenix Arizona where basically the temp varies from hell fire to just normal fire and run the A/C for the better part of my life and don’t get sick. It’s sooo weird about the air current belief. People die here without A/C every year. I think with global warming much of Europe may have to start using A/C as well. In AZ we’re used to extreme heat but it’s not safe to be out in that type of weather for long.
Fellow Arizonan here…and yes! Love your description “hell fire to just normal fire” as it’s so true! When she said they have an aversion to AC and fans I was like WHAAAT, that’s how we survive!!!
la climatisation participe au réchauffement climatique le gaz utilisé : le fréon détruit la couche d'ozone , et puis cette année est exceptionnelle; question grosse chaleur en Europe .je suis un français ayant vécu dans les pays tropicaux et équatoriaux : Afrique , Amérique du sud et le sud-est asiatique , il n'y avait pas de climatisations dans les maisons et tout le monde survie , question habitude ? En France et dans les pays européens les maisons avaient des murs très épais , les fenêtres étroites , les murs peints en blanc (le blanc reflète les rayons du soleil ) et l'épaisseur des murs garde la fraîcheur dans la maison en été ; et la chaleurs en hivers . Chez moi on fermaient les volets comme çà la chaleur ne pénétrait pas, il faisait 42° dehors 27° a l'intérieur ce qui est largement supportable .ET Oui ? nous pouvons attrapés la crève avec la climatisation et ce n'est pas une croyance bizarre . la question qui peut-être posée serait : que les américains sont des êtes bizarres , avec des croyances tout aussi bizarres , mais là c'est une autre histoire !... quand j'allais au états-unis , je ne prenais jamais les compagnies aériennes américaines pour lors des vols long courriers EUROPE - USA car la température a l'intérieur des avion américains était trop base . bonne journée
@@ybreton6593 You guys are forgetting one big thing. Houses in Europe and in the USA are absolutely not comparable.
Houses here are "strong" and really well insulated. Not the case in 80% of Americans' houses.
@@Tom42600 Oui , il est vrai que les maisons particulières aux Etats -unis sont en bois . vous avez parfaitement raison de le rappeler . bonne journée
ACs make climate change worse. You dont generally pour petrol when you see a fire, so no.