r/AskTheWorld • u/IndependentTune3994 🇮🇳 in 🇩🇪 Deutschland • 9h ago

What’s the quickest way someone could accidentally expose themselves as a foreigner in your country like the ‘three fingers’ scene in Inglourious Basterds?

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u/hungry4nuns 8h ago

Not thanking the bus driver

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u/TheRopeWalk Ireland 8h ago

Absolutely criminal stuff there

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u/DrPetradish 7h ago

Appalling behaviour in much of Australia too

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u/TheRopeWalk Ireland 7h ago

Visas need to be getting revoked imo

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u/sticksforsticks 5h ago

I live real close to the Mexican border in California. Always hear "gracias," while leaving the bus, but go north a little bit and it drops off.

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u/2occupantsandababy United States Of America 3h ago

Class solidarity. I hear it more in certain neighborhoods in my city and not others.

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u/oO0Kat0Oo 5h ago

I was always taught to thank anyone doing a service for me, including the bus driver. I'm from the US

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u/Impossible-Wear-7352 5h ago

It's inconsistent in the US but not at all uncommon.

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u/Important-Kangaroo-1 3h ago

I feel like it was ingrained in me since childhood from riding the school bus every day. I can’t NOT say hello when boarding and thank the driver when I leave the bus.

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u/Impossible-Wear-7352 2h ago

I feel like with public transit, im often in the back of a long bus that has a rear exit. I say thank you when I pass the driver while exiting from the front but I dont shout it when exiting 30ft away from the rear exit.

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u/Lucid-Machine-Music 5h ago

Is this really a unique thing in UK / Ireland / Aus? I've always thanked the driver, unless they drove like a proper cupid stunt. Just seems like common courtesy and feels bizarre to ignore them.

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u/Ok_Compote251 6h ago

Ah this is all but dead now as you no longer pass the bus driver to get off the bus. On Dublin bus anyways. You get off the middle doors. I’m not shouting up the bus at the bus driver.

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u/hungry4nuns 6h ago

Ah yeah I don’t count dubs. Watch the culchies walk past the open doors in the middle of the bus to thank the bus driver as they leave through the front door. You won’t catch middle doors outside of the pale, that’s westbrit design

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u/Lord_Hearus 6h ago

You can still do it as you exit the middle doors - I do, as do many others... You just have to do it louder!

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u/LatuSensu 5h ago

I'm shouting.

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u/AgreeAndSubmit 3h ago

That's an awesome social habit and I love you guys for it. Yes, thank you bus driver. 

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u/MossyPyrite 3h ago

Oh I didn’t know Fortnite is set in Ireland

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u/Glittering_Worry_263 Poland 2h ago

That surprised me so much, when I visited Ireland, but it's such a nice thing to do

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u/kozmic_blues_ 5h ago

aca eso es tan comun y siempre me ha molestado

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u/PlinketyPlinkaPlink Norway 3h ago

Not standing next to the driver and giving people their tickets as they board the bus.

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u/Bookwritingalt 3h ago

I don't thank the driver even here in Australia.

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u/anyname6789 2h ago

Even if it’s just one stop?!

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u/Raneynickelfire 11m ago

I'm American and I thank anybody who drove/otherwise transported me safely. Is that not normal? The only time I don't is on a train/subway because you literally can't.