anybody have examples of the opposite? American hollywood movies/shows that nonchalantly presented something common in the USA, but was jarring when you watched it?
And how you have flags on everything, including outside people’s houses.
“Central air” is a term I only learned the meaning of recently, but American TV assumes everyone knows what it is. Which is fair, if you all have it. Same with the hand blenders you have in your kitchen sinks.
It’s seriously funny how freaked out people get from garbage disposals.
They’re quite safe. They don’t have spinning blades. They have something closer to a dull grater and arms on swivels that catch loose food and push it against the stationary grind plate.
You shouldn’t put your hand in one because the little weighted arms are going very fast and could hurt your fingers if they got hit, but it’s unlikely to push them into the wall.
They’re great if you have proper sewage treatment, since it keeps the trash from getting stinky and it basically just gets turned into fertilizer like a more efficient, roundabout compost heap that I don’t need to remember to poke.
Yeah I never really understood that part of it. He was a chemistry teacher so I suppose supposedly he knows how to make meth in principle, but it wasn’t like he was a super genius or anything, why could no one else produce a product as good as his. All he was doing what’s the following basic chemistry steps.
In the show it’s suggested that it’s mostly down to him using the right glass beakers and stuff. But if that’s all that’s required then how come there isn’t loads of high quality product on the market?
He was pretty explicitly a world class research chemist. Even with a written recipe there’s a lot of room for variation in chemistry and knowing what’s happening is how you correct.
In earlier seasons it’s because he does stuff right and uses the right tools correctly. People are impressed with his product but it’s just uncommon.
In later seasons he’s making industrial quantities of laboratory grade meth. A rough estimate would have his output being a serious competitor to a pharmaceutical company (walt made ~15,000 kg of meth, and the US produces about 30,000kg of amphetamine per year).
So his competition is mostly people who work for Pfizer. Similar to how most bomb makers work for national governments. The people who are good at it make more, safer, by doing it legit. It’s why it’s always newsworthy when a professional level player does private business.
anybody have examples of the opposite? American hollywood movies/shows that nonchalantly presented something common in the USA, but was jarring when you watched it?
Pledge of allegiance in school is quite unusual.
And how you have flags on everything, including outside people’s houses.
“Central air” is a term I only learned the meaning of recently, but American TV assumes everyone knows what it is. Which is fair, if you all have it. Same with the hand blenders you have in your kitchen sinks.
It’s seriously funny how freaked out people get from garbage disposals.
They’re quite safe. They don’t have spinning blades. They have something closer to a dull grater and arms on swivels that catch loose food and push it against the stationary grind plate.
You shouldn’t put your hand in one because the little weighted arms are going very fast and could hurt your fingers if they got hit, but it’s unlikely to push them into the wall.
They’re great if you have proper sewage treatment, since it keeps the trash from getting stinky and it basically just gets turned into fertilizer like a more efficient, roundabout compost heap that I don’t need to remember to poke.
Weird. I swear I remember my father taking ours apart when I was a young kid, and it had a blade like a mandolin slicer.
Like this?
If you look a little closer, you can see the blades are on pivots, and the holes are for water and food particles.
A teacher needing to sell meth to pay for his cancer treatment.
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He liked it and was good at it (debatable)
Yeah I never really understood that part of it. He was a chemistry teacher so I suppose supposedly he knows how to make meth in principle, but it wasn’t like he was a super genius or anything, why could no one else produce a product as good as his. All he was doing what’s the following basic chemistry steps.
In the show it’s suggested that it’s mostly down to him using the right glass beakers and stuff. But if that’s all that’s required then how come there isn’t loads of high quality product on the market?
He was pretty explicitly a world class research chemist. Even with a written recipe there’s a lot of room for variation in chemistry and knowing what’s happening is how you correct.
In earlier seasons it’s because he does stuff right and uses the right tools correctly. People are impressed with his product but it’s just uncommon.
In later seasons he’s making industrial quantities of laboratory grade meth. A rough estimate would have his output being a serious competitor to a pharmaceutical company (walt made ~15,000 kg of meth, and the US produces about 30,000kg of amphetamine per year).
So his competition is mostly people who work for Pfizer. Similar to how most bomb makers work for national governments. The people who are good at it make more, safer, by doing it legit. It’s why it’s always newsworthy when a professional level player does private business.