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What is your best story when you were in a foreign country? (kbin.social)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/asklemmy

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It can be anything: Scary, funny, confusing or embarrassing. What happened that stands out most in your mind?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Openly then. Sorry I’m not that familiar with American assault weapon vernacular

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

We usually just say school appropriate or not

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

For what it’s worth, AK’s are Russian

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That I actually did know, but thank you for the context!

Just that I called it open carry when I meant openly, as in its totally normalized that a disco bouncer has a fucking assault rifle

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Saying open carry is fine, friend.

[–] zeppo 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I remember after 9/11 I took a flight out of Minneapolis and there were security/police/whatever with automatic rifles. Pretty surprising as I'd never seen anything like that in the US.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I’m from the US and it freaks me out all the damn time. If it’s supposed me feel any safer, it doesn’t — AT ALL!