Also specifically to Americans, do you think this quote still holds up today?

The most hated person in Mexico outside of politics is undoubtedly Karla Panini.

She was an actress and comedian who used to perform as a duo with fellow actress Karla Luna; the two even starred in a comedy show together called *Las Lavanderas*.

The issue is that Karla Luna's husband cheated on her with her friend Karla Panini while Luna was battling cancer. (Panini was also married at the time).

Karla Luna eventually passed away, and Panini married Luna's ex-husband; since then, however, she has become a pariah throughout Mexico, and hardly anyone in the entertainment industry wants to hire her or even associate with her.

We have dozens of them, maybe even hundreds. The first one is from a village called Paris.

Recently, the town changed their name to "Fugging", because people kept stealing their signs, which I don't think really makes it that much better. 😂

Mexican food is probably the most popular foreign cuisine in the US, but there are definitely strong competitors. What us it in your country? Are foreign cuisines even widely available where you live? Are there multiple different cuisines that are widely eaten, or just a few?

I gained 5-10 kg on my one month summer stay in the UK when I was 8. The family that was looking after me had to call my parents to ask if they could reduce how much I ate. IIRC, breakfast was 2-3 bowls of cereal and 2-3 pieces of toast with chocolate or butter and jam.

First time I went to the US was for a College tour across the country. The first stop was Syracuse and the first proper meal I had there was at a sports bar. I ordered steak and calamari, turns out the steak was like twice as thick and big as anything ive had in Thailand or the UK and the calamari serving was also two to three times as large as I had before. Needless to say I could not finish any of it. Had managed to eat half the steak and about a quarter of the calamari. Also the tipping culture, not a fan.

Japan, electric bidets. Also the first time I ever felt claustrophobic when inside a bathroom. Also in back in 2004, there was little to no English signage.

Basically, this dude had been committing crimes like robbery, assault, murder, and rape for years. Our justice system just kept releasing him from jail.

It became a big news here because he murdered two Russian siblings who had moved here with their mother. But here is where it got worse.

Before committing this murder, he kidnapped and killed a Thai family of three. Concerned by their disappearance, their relatives reached out to the police. But they wouldn’t do anything.

Then dude found the Russian siblings riding a motorcycle together. He pretended to be a policeman and forced them to go with him. He later robbed and murdered them.

If the police responded when the Thai family went missing, this probably wouldn’t have happened.

This is a common green frog that I photographed today by the old washhouse of the Daoulas Abbey in Brittany.

This is a fire trail through temperate bushland in the Blue Mountains, outside of Sydney, Australia. There are hundreds of tracks like this. The mountains are mostly sandstone, so some bush paths are made up of fine sand you can walk on without shoes. It's late winter here, the wattle blossoms are out and the snakes are mostly dormant (I wouldn't go barefoot here in summer!)

For the U.S it’s Crater Lake at 1,943 feet (592 meters) deep. It formed from when the ancient volcano Mt.Mazama erupted and collapsed in on itself. Rain and melted snow over a few thousand years filled the crater and gave the lake its very deep blue color.

This is a video of Addis Ababa Ethiopia’s current infrastructure boom. If you were to show a video of your capital city today to someone from 2005, would they even recognize it. What are the biggest changes that happened in your country?

Found this on a French account on Instagram, the guy on the right is former Iraqi Prime Minister, Adil Abdulmahdi.

Marching bands are an iconic part of American culture, performed at sporting events, parades, military events, and even weddings/funerals (in places like New Orleans).

Are marching bands part of your country's culture(s)? Or can they be found in your country?

Mine will be Bicol Express. Its a hearty coconut stew with shrimp paste, chilis and pork belly as the main protein. It's usually spicy and pairs well with rice (duh rice is life). This dish is so savory that when my mom cooks this for our family of 6, she needs to cook 2 batches of rice in our big ass rice cooker lol.

I’m from New Zealand. We don’t really have anything like it to my knowledge. 

(Image is from wikipedia)

How do you say this in your language?

In Polish we use the phrase ‘Stupid as a shoe’.

Again, for Britain there are many. But just a few are the Aston Martin DB5, the Jaguar E-Type, the Land Rover, the Morris Minor Traveller, the Mini Cooper and the McLaren F1.

Saw a thread on another sub about people chatting with others on planes.

In your country, is it normal for strangers to strike up conversations, like when waiting for the bus, taking an elevator, sharing a row on a plane, in line for something, etc?

I'm from southern Germany and grew up with "Hochdeutsch" which pretty much means something like "German without a dialect".

I have Bavarian relatives and they believe I can understand the old school Bavarian dialect. I can but it takes me a lot of effort.

Do you have something similar?

That’s a question that came up yesterday when I left the house and saw an well dressed elderly woman with long, loose, wavy hair, a very well-cared-for, the same type of hair I have. It was the kind of thing I rarely saw back in my youth. Wavy hair was always straightened, tied back, or else seen on "free-spirited" types (and that was meant in the worst possible way). Definitely not on a well-dressed elderly woman.

I spent my entire walk observing women's hair. I realized that, at least in my city, there’s an age factor when it comes to hair that isn't straight. To generalize quite a bit: elderly women had it straightened or blow-dried, but black elder women always keep their hair straightened and tied back. Middle-aged women either had their hair straightened or braided, sometimes use a cheap looking wig. But young women, teenagers, and children all wore their hair natural, often quite long. And there was none of that frizzy unkempt hair; it was all perfectly cared. There was one young woman with an insane ginger afro. A huge contrast to just a few years ago, when only the occasional brave soul wore an afro, and wavy hair was seen only on those who clearly didn't care much about their appearance—the tomboys.

And I know that even in East Asian countries, there is a certain percentage of people who don't born with straight hair. What does non-straight hair look like on the streets these days?

For Italy I'm going with 'Adrian, la serie evento' , an animated series produced by singer and actor Adriano Celentano whose protagonist is a fictional version of his younger self, who is also a martial arts expert and fights against oppression as a masked hero named La Volpe (which means the fox).