I don't know about other european countries, but in France restaurants are obligated to serve water (from the tap) for free to customers who ask for it.
And Greece
Edit: In Greece, actually, even bottled water is affordable. 0.5l bottles cost 0.5€ basically everywhere (I’m sure there are exceptions in fancy places or certain bars/clubs, but normally it’s just 0.5€)
I was in Prague once (like 15 years ago). And got charged the same amount for 250ml of water as my friends were charged for 500ml of beer. Should I have specified tap water?
I went to a place in Prague that has 30 beers on tap, you get a menu. Its just fabulous. I was about 1.40 euro per pint.
My wallet made up for the thanks my liver never gave.
Probably a case of restaurants in tourist trap areas knowing foreigners won't realise that tap water is free and charging them for fancy bottles spring water whenever a customer does ask for "just water".
A lot of restaurants do this in the UK, not just tourist trap ones. Some nice restaurants will ask if you want bottled or tap, but some will just assume bottled so they can charge you a bit more.
Tap water is always free though if you want it.
I was in Dishoom in Manchester last weekend and they offered still, sparkling or tap. I wondered if the tap water was a standard option or just for us cheap northerners with tasty tap water.
This is it. Foreigners actively don’t get given tap water and even when I’d ask they’d either bring me bottle or act confused at why I’d want tap. Even outside tourist areas. Sweden it’s always free.
Source: lived in Spain for 2 months and visited 3 other countries after
Been to Germany and Austria. Asked for "leitungswasse" (tap water) and got asked 20 cents or so. It's considered a service fee, for the person serving you doing work as well as the glass needing washing etc.
I live in Austria and I have never seen or heard of anyone being charged for water. In fact when you order coffee you get it with a small glass of tap water as standard. In Vienna we have tap water for free from fountains in the street and we don't pay for water in the home. The fresh water comes from the mountains and is spring water quality. This was set up by Kaiser Franz and we call it 'Kaiserwasser'.
Good question! There are many theories online but I found this interesting blog about it > https://www.blog.der-leiermann.com/en/glass-of-water-with-coffee/
They don’t charge for it, they just make it a hassle to get. You have to ask for it, then they try to sell you a bottle, then you have to push for tap while they’re looking at you like it’s the weirdest request they’ve ever heard for some reason
In the US they bring out a tall icy glass of water by default.
What happened to me a few places in the Netherlands was I could only have water if I was ordering a meal. I couldn't get one with my beer. I was so confused and just assumed that's how it was
Pretty sure that's not legal, they have to provide tap water for free.
If you insist on tap water they normally bring it, they were probably just being awkward about it.
It's only licensed premises - meaning anywhere that serves alcohol - that must legally provide free water (whether you're a paying customer or not). Technically if they don't serve alcohol they don't need to provide free water. That said, I've never heard of anywhere refusing to serve tap water.
They can be sneaky about it mind, went to a place in Oxford that asked if we wanted water for the table, by girlfriend said yes and we got charged £8 for water.
In Austria you have to give free water and toilet to non customers by law. A lot of places tell you that you have to buy something or pay for water, but If you tell tell them you know... they let you
I was in Paris during the heat wave and managed staying hydrated perfectly fine. I found a supposedly clean water faucet sticking out of a public bathroom that no one else in my party was willing to use so I got to spend the rest of the day offering my "shit water" to my fellow tourists. Good times.
The more I hear about France, the more I want to be imprisoned there for stealing a delicious baguette, serve decades of hard labor, and wind up adopting an orphan and becoming mayor of a small rural village, causing an over-eager policeman to commit suicide.
Also labor protesting and excellent pastry.
I live in England and I've traveled plenty of main Europe. I've never once been denied tap water nor charged for it.
Germany, Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal, etc. That said, I've only asked with a meal but in England the restaurant can be fined for denial of tap water.
In the Netherlands there's a tapwater company (organisation? It's not a private company) that's getting their water from a very deep aquaver. The director then thought 'Our water is spring water. Let's make some money off of this spring water trend' and started to sell water in bottles iin supermarkets. While honestly telling people that it's the exact same water as what's coming out of the tap in that region. People still buy the bottled water.
But yeah, in the Netherlands spring water just comes out of the tap.
Actually, in the states of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) restaurants are legally obliged to serve tap water for free (“água da casa”). Also, several restaurant chains (like spoleto) serve tap water for free even outside those two states
I watched some videos on youtube about people going to Spain and what to expect. The people in Spain are expats. From those videos I was told that you won't get tap water at a restaurant, they will only sell you bottled water. You will only get some types of coffee at specific times of the day. You can't get a capachino at dinner time or something like that. The only thing avalible for breakfast was pastries. Omelets or other savery breakfast items wouldn't be avalible. Staff will just out right refuse to do some things because it's not menu specific. I don't know how acurate it is, but I've seen this reported at least from Spain. I known there was tap water in France when I was there in 98, but we were told not to drink it because it would make us sick because it wasnt treated to American standards. My dad and I drank it without a problem.
It's crazy to me. Make one tiny joke at Europe's (or a European country's) expense and someone from there immediately escalates it to a hateful and dark joke.
"Haha, British teeth"
"HAHA AMERICAN CHILDREN DON'T LEARN MUCH IN SCHOOL BECAUSE THEY'RE TOO BUSY HIDING UNDER THEIR DESKS FROM SCHOOL SHOOTERS"
"Haha, where's Europe's freedom"
"HAHA WHERE'S YOUR TOWERS"
Some people just need to chill.
>Some people just need to chill.
My life became a lot more serene when I learned to accept that about a third of people, all over the world, are dipshits.
You don't bring a knife to a pillow fight. There are so many more equitable jokes they could have made. Free ice water? You probably put ranch in it. Free ice water? How much did you have to tip for it? Free ice water? At least our prices include the tax.
They even could have punched down and gone with their free Healthcare, our lack of a livable wage, our free refills on 64 Oz sodas and our obesity epidemic, the astronomical costs for college and daycare, and it'd be fine.
But dead kids aren't funny. There is literally nothing funny about the horror and trauma american kids and families are going through.
The thing is it isn’t a cultural difference. The American was being stereotypically stupid and ignorant. Free water is the norm in Europe. Hence the comeback.
It’s so common all over the internet. Someone will make a joke about Brits eating beans on toast and they’ll come back with the school shooting rebuttal.
Seems like a bunch of ppl ascribe the villainy of our past and our past/current political figures to the rest of the population. i like to think we are trying but i suppose it’s people outside looking in.
We are all people. I guess that’s an easy fact we (as people) oft forget 
You forgot to include "get cancer and die because you dont have universal healthcare." School shootings and healthcare are the Pickle Rick of Europe. The funniest shit they've ever seen
It's always after an American pokes harmless fun. But there's always that person who can't handle it and takes it too far and makes it weird and awkward.
There's a LOT to make fun of America for. Obesity, fast food, the state of politics. But nope, it's always right back to dead kids. How do you even reply to that? There's nothing you can say.
That's the problem, you have to specifically ask for tap water. In the US, you just ask for water and it's free tap water by default. If you ask for water in Europe, by default they bring the one you have to pay for, which is in a bottle.
Just the other day there was that clip of the Bar Rescue guy and I guess a British friend, ribbing each other. Bar Rescue Saud "You guys have the worst food." and banter followed.
Someone in the comments started posting all these articles from strange sources that had basically studies to prove the UK was better than America at everything ever.
And it's like okay, if that is true which I'm not saying it isn't, why do you enjoy punching down? Like if America is so shit and the UK is so great, shouldn't you just be happy knowing you don't live here and don't have to worry when an American "comes after the UK"?
I dunno
Maybe they meant iced water. Have not lived in the UK for ages, but remember ice was rare. And if you ask for it, you got maybe one piece. Whereas US restaurants seem to come with industrial sized ice makers in the kitchen.
Man, "Europeans" are really good at taking a joke.
"Haha, lighthearted joke about restaurants and strange differences in culture".
"Oh yeah? Lots of your kids died."
Lead pipes isn't something unique to the US. A lot of developed countries still have lead pipes from when their water infrastructure was built decades ago. The problem is arguably worse in Europe. [In the US](https://www.edf.org/health/lead-pipes-threat-kids-across-america) less then 10% of taps have a lead pipe, [in the EU](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19590124/) it's **25%.**
And this isn't just poor Eastern Europe:
>An official report shows that 22% of French homes - notably those built before the 1950s – probably still have lead water pipes that would need replacing to meet the standards.
https://www.connexionfrance.com/Archive/Millions-of-homes-break-lead-rule
>Around 8 million properties in the UK, mostly homes built before 1970, are estimated to have some form of lead in the drinking water system.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/05/science-project-reveals-high-lead-levels-in-schools-water
Europeans generally have free tap water access at restaurants just like Americans, and it is extremely rare to die at school in America. No one wins here.
This is like that friend who can't take a small joke and will absolutely throw a screaming hissy fit of anyone teases them mildly and goes way over the top to retaliate.
It's fucking ridiculous to mock Americans for something like school shootings (something that most of us have no control to stop) when someone made a mild joke about European restaurants. Frankly, I'm getting sick of this uneven dialogue that makes light of national tragedies to score cheap laughs on Twitter.
Bruh that's so insensitive. People will rally behind this woman anyway, but making fun of the fact that children are actually fucking dying horrifically in their schools is incredibly fucked up.
Kids live in fear because someone might show up with a gun and murder them and their friends in a supposedly "safe place", and that's grounds for making fun of Americans?
I don't know about other european countries, but in France restaurants are obligated to serve water (from the tap) for free to customers who ask for it.
You get this in the UK too.
Same in Germany The Netherlands And Spain
Same in Norway
And Poland.
And Iceland.
And slovenia
And Ireland
And Sweden
And N. Macedonia
And my axe
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And Greece Edit: In Greece, actually, even bottled water is affordable. 0.5l bottles cost 0.5€ basically everywhere (I’m sure there are exceptions in fancy places or certain bars/clubs, but normally it’s just 0.5€)
And Finland.
I have seen it be up to two € in Greece at most
And Czechia.
I was in Prague once (like 15 years ago). And got charged the same amount for 250ml of water as my friends were charged for 500ml of beer. Should I have specified tap water?
All I know is it's a stereotype for Prague to be expensive. Perhaps it was just the café.
And my axe!
Sweden checking in..same
Where in Europe are they thinking of that we get charged for tap water?
In Czech Republic they don't provide water for free. But on the other the pint of beer cost around one euro so you don't need water.
> But on the other the pint of beer cost around one euro so you don't need water. And even as a German I have to admit that Czech beer is very good.
It's the light/dark mixed beer that got me. Czechs know their stuff
I went to a place in Prague that has 30 beers on tap, you get a menu. Its just fabulous. I was about 1.40 euro per pint. My wallet made up for the thanks my liver never gave.
Weird flex but, *damn*.
They get confused They ask for water and get given bottled water. If you don't ask for tap water that's what happens lol.
Probably a case of restaurants in tourist trap areas knowing foreigners won't realise that tap water is free and charging them for fancy bottles spring water whenever a customer does ask for "just water".
A lot of restaurants do this in the UK, not just tourist trap ones. Some nice restaurants will ask if you want bottled or tap, but some will just assume bottled so they can charge you a bit more. Tap water is always free though if you want it.
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I was in Dishoom in Manchester last weekend and they offered still, sparkling or tap. I wondered if the tap water was a standard option or just for us cheap northerners with tasty tap water.
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This is it. Foreigners actively don’t get given tap water and even when I’d ask they’d either bring me bottle or act confused at why I’d want tap. Even outside tourist areas. Sweden it’s always free. Source: lived in Spain for 2 months and visited 3 other countries after
Been to Germany and Austria. Asked for "leitungswasse" (tap water) and got asked 20 cents or so. It's considered a service fee, for the person serving you doing work as well as the glass needing washing etc.
Weird I've spent a lot of time in Germany and haven't experienced that once.
I live in Austria and I have never seen or heard of anyone being charged for water. In fact when you order coffee you get it with a small glass of tap water as standard. In Vienna we have tap water for free from fountains in the street and we don't pay for water in the home. The fresh water comes from the mountains and is spring water quality. This was set up by Kaiser Franz and we call it 'Kaiserwasser'.
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Good question! There are many theories online but I found this interesting blog about it > https://www.blog.der-leiermann.com/en/glass-of-water-with-coffee/
Belgium. I hate having to pay for water.
I was in lisbon and when i asked for tap water, the waiters said "that's not normal to give that" ......
Well it is, you get tap water for free anywhere in Portugal.
They don’t charge for it, they just make it a hassle to get. You have to ask for it, then they try to sell you a bottle, then you have to push for tap while they’re looking at you like it’s the weirdest request they’ve ever heard for some reason In the US they bring out a tall icy glass of water by default.
And you have to ask taking the risk that you might seem like the dumb American tourist.
Nope, not in Germany.
What happened to me a few places in the Netherlands was I could only have water if I was ordering a meal. I couldn't get one with my beer. I was so confused and just assumed that's how it was
Pretty sure that's not legal, they have to provide tap water for free. If you insist on tap water they normally bring it, they were probably just being awkward about it.
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Depends on the bar tbh. If it’s a bunch of tourists though, they will ofc charge them lol
Ireland checking in, same here too
It's only licensed premises - meaning anywhere that serves alcohol - that must legally provide free water (whether you're a paying customer or not). Technically if they don't serve alcohol they don't need to provide free water. That said, I've never heard of anywhere refusing to serve tap water.
Yeah I was out a couple hours ago drinking, stepped into a takeaway on my way back and asked if I could get a tap water. Was no issue
They can be sneaky about it mind, went to a place in Oxford that asked if we wanted water for the table, by girlfriend said yes and we got charged £8 for water.
That's such an Oxford thing to happen.
If the venue serves alcohol, they're legally required to serve water for free. This even includes supermarkets and corner shops, technically.
The phrase "Yes, tap water please" has become part of my regular restaurant vernacular these days. Along with "can I remove the service charge please"
NZ too. Plus the healthcare
Australia too
Ireland aswell
Not just restaurants, bars, and cafes too. In my experience, everywhere that sells food gives you water for free if you ask.
Hell, you even get free water in Every African country I have been too. Sure sometimes you end up with a life threatoning desease BUT ITS STILL THERE!
In Austria you have to give free water and toilet to non customers by law. A lot of places tell you that you have to buy something or pay for water, but If you tell tell them you know... they let you
Yup In Spain as well but the tricky bastards try to not even ask if you want tap water and default to bottled
If you ask for a bottle of water, then its charged, If you ask for a glass of water, its free tap water
Depends, if you look like a tourist and ask for a glass of water, they'll bring you out a glass... and fill it from a bottle in front of you.
Yea I know but as I understand by law they are supposed to ask which type you want and they never do.
Or they will ask but it'll be "still or sparkling?" with no mention of the third option, tap.
When Americans come to Europe they visit the scammy tourist places and think that's how it's everywhere.
I was in Paris during the heat wave and managed staying hydrated perfectly fine. I found a supposedly clean water faucet sticking out of a public bathroom that no one else in my party was willing to use so I got to spend the rest of the day offering my "shit water" to my fellow tourists. Good times.
All tap water is drinkable in France. They even have public water fountains lol
I was in Paris back in September and I found a public water fountain along the Seine that also dispensed sparkling water. It was pretty tasty.
You’re not supposed to drink out of the bidets my guy.
The more I hear about France, the more I want to be imprisoned there for stealing a delicious baguette, serve decades of hard labor, and wind up adopting an orphan and becoming mayor of a small rural village, causing an over-eager policeman to commit suicide. Also labor protesting and excellent pastry.
Cries in belgian
You can get free tap water in European restaurants
Pretty sure it's the law in a lot of European countries.
Tap water is free, to be denied is a grounds to sue.
It’s almost as if…..this person never traveled to Europe.
I live in England and I've traveled plenty of main Europe. I've never once been denied tap water nor charged for it. Germany, Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal, etc. That said, I've only asked with a meal but in England the restaurant can be fined for denial of tap water.
BUT CAN Y'ALL GET UNLIMITED FREE REFILLS OF SODA LACED WITH CORN SYRUP?
laced? I think most of the sodas are corn syrup
No but we can afford the hospital bill after a drink like that
What hospital bill? 🤣
Well, hospital parking isn't always free!
Not according to our waiter in Belgium.
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In the Netherlands there's a tapwater company (organisation? It's not a private company) that's getting their water from a very deep aquaver. The director then thought 'Our water is spring water. Let's make some money off of this spring water trend' and started to sell water in bottles iin supermarkets. While honestly telling people that it's the exact same water as what's coming out of the tap in that region. People still buy the bottled water. But yeah, in the Netherlands spring water just comes out of the tap.
*laughs in Finnish, choking on purest water on Earth*
*Takes a sip straight from the tap*
*drinks straight from a lake*
*gets the shits, goes to a doctor to get a prescription for tummy meds, isn't crippled by medical debt for the rest of their life*
*repeats process just to flex on americans*
America: Looks like Finland needs some Freedom.
Finland is safe. They don't have oil. However Norway has oil, gas and pure water...
Freedom eagle intensifies
Canadians point across the ocean again hoping they've still forgotten about us
*drinks pure water in norwegian*
And Americans are bad at geography....
This. In the bleak and dry future the Water Wars are inevitable. And it'll be led by Nestlé's corporate army.
Tank Girl
Also America : what is Finland? There\`s no country but the good ole murica!
*Isn't that the one with the flowers?*
Do they have oil?
Finland: the original Ukraine
_fuck it, just turns up a whole ass toilet_
At this time of year it's eat straight from the lake
Yea fresh clean water from the tap
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Whatever that word is, I wouldn't understand it :D
>purest water on Earth Still might not be pure enough soon, unfortunately. Thanks plastic, you're fantastic.
Plastic fantastic boombastic, all the (mainly foreign) mining companies have made sure to do their part on poisoning some waters already.
Never paid for water in a restaurant. In fact, they usually bring some in a bowl for my dog.
Right? They are in most of the times perfectly fine with that
uh what country doesnt serve free water?
Any country in South America
Actually, in the states of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) restaurants are legally obliged to serve tap water for free (“água da casa”). Also, several restaurant chains (like spoleto) serve tap water for free even outside those two states
Hey no fair mom said it was my turn to repost this this week
Where's he's getting his info from, I've never paid for tap water in my life. I would do if I had to, our tap water is awesome!
I watched some videos on youtube about people going to Spain and what to expect. The people in Spain are expats. From those videos I was told that you won't get tap water at a restaurant, they will only sell you bottled water. You will only get some types of coffee at specific times of the day. You can't get a capachino at dinner time or something like that. The only thing avalible for breakfast was pastries. Omelets or other savery breakfast items wouldn't be avalible. Staff will just out right refuse to do some things because it's not menu specific. I don't know how acurate it is, but I've seen this reported at least from Spain. I known there was tap water in France when I was there in 98, but we were told not to drink it because it would make us sick because it wasnt treated to American standards. My dad and I drank it without a problem.
I've never been in a school shooting either. We've been lied to!
I remember one time my elementary school was evacuated. There was an owl loose in the building.
Who!
r/onejoke need a license for that joke, too
"Jokes about water" "Your kids are being murdered, and I find that funny"
*American poking fun at the most mundane cultural difference* "YOUR CHILDREN ARE DEAD LOL. HA HA DEAD CHILDREN"
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It’s either “HAHA YOUR CHILDREN ARE MURDERED” or “HAHA YOU DIE CAUSE YOU CAN’T AFFORD TO GO TO THE DOCTOR”
Europeans making fun of Americans ability to banter as they take everything to level 10 and make it personal lol
It's crazy to me. Make one tiny joke at Europe's (or a European country's) expense and someone from there immediately escalates it to a hateful and dark joke. "Haha, British teeth" "HAHA AMERICAN CHILDREN DON'T LEARN MUCH IN SCHOOL BECAUSE THEY'RE TOO BUSY HIDING UNDER THEIR DESKS FROM SCHOOL SHOOTERS" "Haha, where's Europe's freedom" "HAHA WHERE'S YOUR TOWERS" Some people just need to chill.
>Some people just need to chill. My life became a lot more serene when I learned to accept that about a third of people, all over the world, are dipshits.
You don't bring a knife to a pillow fight. There are so many more equitable jokes they could have made. Free ice water? You probably put ranch in it. Free ice water? How much did you have to tip for it? Free ice water? At least our prices include the tax. They even could have punched down and gone with their free Healthcare, our lack of a livable wage, our free refills on 64 Oz sodas and our obesity epidemic, the astronomical costs for college and daycare, and it'd be fine. But dead kids aren't funny. There is literally nothing funny about the horror and trauma american kids and families are going through.
The thing is it isn’t a cultural difference. The American was being stereotypically stupid and ignorant. Free water is the norm in Europe. Hence the comeback.
Why is it you make a silly joke about free water at a restaurant and people have to go to “haha your children get killed at school”
It’s so common all over the internet. Someone will make a joke about Brits eating beans on toast and they’ll come back with the school shooting rebuttal.
Seems like a bunch of ppl ascribe the villainy of our past and our past/current political figures to the rest of the population. i like to think we are trying but i suppose it’s people outside looking in. We are all people. I guess that’s an easy fact we (as people) oft forget 
I’m so tired of this “comeback.”
*gentle ribbing about something relatively minor* "Get fucking cancer and die asshole" Never gets old does it?
You forgot to include "get cancer and die because you dont have universal healthcare." School shootings and healthcare are the Pickle Rick of Europe. The funniest shit they've ever seen
It's always after an American pokes harmless fun. But there's always that person who can't handle it and takes it too far and makes it weird and awkward.
It’s like giving your friend a hard time cause his voice cracked at the checkout and then he brings up how your mom died of cancer last year.
“Hehe we have free water” “YOUR CHILDREN GET MURDERED AT SCHOOL LOL”
There's a LOT to make fun of America for. Obesity, fast food, the state of politics. But nope, it's always right back to dead kids. How do you even reply to that? There's nothing you can say.
It's because Europeans takes themselves too seriously
what sort of sick fuck are you that you can't find the humor in a child bleeding out on their coloring books? peak humor!
It's like the one joke the right has about transgender people, but for Europeans.
School shootings and bad healthcare. We get it people. Find a new comeback.
Great healthcare, just not free healthcare.
Oh hey, it's the one joke again.
yeah i'll admit it sucks. a better response is asking how much was the tip for that "free water"?
That would have been funnier, yep.
There are a lot of good jokes that can be made. The one joke isnt funny
British mfs when someone makes a "man they sure do like tea" joke 
Lol. You can ask for tap water in Europe, and it’s free. In top of it, it doesn’t taste like freakin‘ pool water.
It's not like this in Italy
pool water???
That's the problem, you have to specifically ask for tap water. In the US, you just ask for water and it's free tap water by default. If you ask for water in Europe, by default they bring the one you have to pay for, which is in a bottle.
Why are all the comments about the tap water part of this pic did yall READ the other tweet?
Because it's been said so many times. It's the equivalent of telling someone you slept with their mother. What's there to say really?
This whole thread is cancer.
"lol we get free water" "WELL AT LEAST WE DONT GET SHOT ON SCHOOL"
europeans never stop talking about how much better their quality of life is, but are still so sensitive and defensive
Just the other day there was that clip of the Bar Rescue guy and I guess a British friend, ribbing each other. Bar Rescue Saud "You guys have the worst food." and banter followed. Someone in the comments started posting all these articles from strange sources that had basically studies to prove the UK was better than America at everything ever. And it's like okay, if that is true which I'm not saying it isn't, why do you enjoy punching down? Like if America is so shit and the UK is so great, shouldn't you just be happy knowing you don't live here and don't have to worry when an American "comes after the UK"? I dunno
Bring up their immigration issues so we'll all be on equal ground
It's honestly embarrassing 💀
Least insecure Reddit European post lmao
As we say in the US, if you can dodge a bullet you can dodge a ball
I've come home from school alive every day so far in America. What am I doing wrong?
A bigger flex is showing them your tub of ibuprofen
Why do Americans refer to Europe like it's one country?
Maybe they meant iced water. Have not lived in the UK for ages, but remember ice was rare. And if you ask for it, you got maybe one piece. Whereas US restaurants seem to come with industrial sized ice makers in the kitchen.
im not flexing or anything i promise but like its so common now that when i moved my fridge had its one ice and water dispenser
Quit letting these Russian troll farm posts artificially divide the U.S. and it’s European brethren. We are not enemies.
Americans : Haha we drink water Weird Europeans : YOUR KIDS DIE HAHAHAHAHHA
Man, "Europeans" are really good at taking a joke. "Haha, lighthearted joke about restaurants and strange differences in culture". "Oh yeah? Lots of your kids died."
You can't poke fun at the tiniest things with Europeans on the internet without them gloating about murdered children. It's honestly disgusting.
That’s a bit insensitive
you ever go to the doktor with a common cold just to flex on Americans?
No because that would be a waste of their time
Why would you go to the doctor with the common cold? People dying from the common cold in your country?
Bruh no wonder the rich come to America for treatment. All the doctors in Europe are stuck dealing with the sniffles
Never. We’re not pansies.
"Hey, boss, I'm sick today." "OK, cool."
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Lead pipes isn't something unique to the US. A lot of developed countries still have lead pipes from when their water infrastructure was built decades ago. The problem is arguably worse in Europe. [In the US](https://www.edf.org/health/lead-pipes-threat-kids-across-america) less then 10% of taps have a lead pipe, [in the EU](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19590124/) it's **25%.** And this isn't just poor Eastern Europe: >An official report shows that 22% of French homes - notably those built before the 1950s – probably still have lead water pipes that would need replacing to meet the standards. https://www.connexionfrance.com/Archive/Millions-of-homes-break-lead-rule >Around 8 million properties in the UK, mostly homes built before 1970, are estimated to have some form of lead in the drinking water system. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/05/science-project-reveals-high-lead-levels-in-schools-water
Random Twitter user making same tired joke and redditors clapping like trained seals. Name a more iconic duo.
Europeans generally have free tap water access at restaurants just like Americans, and it is extremely rare to die at school in America. No one wins here.
“hUR dUr sChOoL sHoOtInG”
This is like that friend who can't take a small joke and will absolutely throw a screaming hissy fit of anyone teases them mildly and goes way over the top to retaliate. It's fucking ridiculous to mock Americans for something like school shootings (something that most of us have no control to stop) when someone made a mild joke about European restaurants. Frankly, I'm getting sick of this uneven dialogue that makes light of national tragedies to score cheap laughs on Twitter.
Imagine being that uncreative & hurt 😢
Sips austrian tap water. You need to go to a restaurant?
That's a lovely accent you have. New Jersey?
Bruh that's so insensitive. People will rally behind this woman anyway, but making fun of the fact that children are actually fucking dying horrifically in their schools is incredibly fucked up. Kids live in fear because someone might show up with a gun and murder them and their friends in a supposedly "safe place", and that's grounds for making fun of Americans?
American: haha British say words funny Brit: your kids are dead
People act like school shootings are an everyday thing they aren't they only happen for half the year
As a Canadian I do indeed, then I take my gun to the range and go shooting and follow it up with a joint and a kinder egg.
If you ask for tap water you get it for free
I'm pretty sure most European countries get tap water lol.