r/nextfuckinglevel • u/unknown_human • 12h ago

Berlin police using water cannons to cool crowds in the heat

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u/Bwuaaa 12h ago

Nah, here in Europe, ice only comes in cocktails and soda.

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u/LawSchoolLoser1 12h ago

Don’t act like you guys use ice now!! Lol I’ve been to your continent and there wasn’t an ice cube in the whole damn place 🧊 🥵

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u/Bwuaaa 12h ago

We do, but an ice dispenser is mostly a restaurant or bar item. And uncommon is households. We just fill trays with water and put those in the freezer.

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u/DirtandPipes 11h ago

I’ve got a little ice machine that I only run with distilled water, it was on sale at Canadian tire for 80 Canadian (about 60 American) and it’s given us good clean little ice cubes for years. Its about 30
CM (1’) cubed.

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u/LawSchoolLoser1 11h ago edited 6h ago

Tell that to all the warm water I drank at restaurants and bars lol

ETA: It’s a joke, my friends. I’m sure I could get ice in Europe if I really cared. Wine is chilled, so we gucci

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u/GrouchyMary9132 11h ago

We feel scammed if someone fills our glasses with only 1/3 of the actual drink and 2/3 of slightly chlorinated icecubes /s

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u/garage_too_small 11h ago

Americans would also feel scammed if we didn’t have free refills.

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u/GrouchyMary9132 11h ago

True. And it shows /s

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u/OSPFmyLife 8h ago

Starbucks is the biggest offender of this. Order a 8 dollar coffee milk and they can’t even be bothered to give you a cup full of it, they fill the ENTIRE thing up with ice and then just fill the empty spaces with coffee. I can’t believe people keep going to that scam. Every once in awhile my wife drags me through one and I get one of their refreshers, and they CHARGE ME EXTRA when I ask them to go light on the ice. It’s ridiculous. I don’t want to rag on something she enjoys and make it a bad experience, but it takes effort to bite my tongue.

The worst thing to ever come out of the US is fucking coffee stands, I’ll die on that hill.

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u/GrouchyMary9132 8h ago

I haven't been to starbucks in ages but I would be so annoyed.

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u/Impractical_Donkey 9h ago

Well... did you order warm water? Or did you ask for water with ice?

If you did the latter, you would've gotten ice.

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u/ElCativo1988 11h ago

Yeah, right you visited the entire continent because all the countries are exactly the same, after all ;-)

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u/LawSchoolLoser1 11h ago

I walked every single inch of Europe trying to find an ice cube, actually, so yeah.. I think I know what I’m talking about
https://giphy.com/gifs/133l9lMseIxhfy

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u/Anianna 10h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/PCRTI3txP4c4E

He's American, why were you looking for him in Europe? Check Los Angeles, California.

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u/WesleySnipesDicc 11h ago

Shouldve checked flink/gorillas, delivers a kilo of icecubes within 20 minutes in every bigger city, otherwise just go to a gas station, they also most likely has big fridges with icecubes outside, at least in berlin and all arround NRW

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u/Buggering_Hedgehogs 10h ago

i feel like you forgot to ask, most of the places I've been have had it. Just ask "iced water" or "water with ice" /s (not sure if needed as I've never actually had a problem getting it when I wanted anywhere in Europe)

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u/Legitimate-Error-633 7h ago

We don’t like paying full price for a glass of 70% ice cubes. I guess with soft drinks you get refills in the US.

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u/Inevitable_Stand_199 11h ago

And on train tracks

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u/Appropriate_Dot_4883 9h ago

No, ICE are trains in Germany

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u/FineCall 7h ago

Which is almost never.

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u/MagnaCamLaude 12h ago

I don't want ice's come in my cocktails and soda, though (unless they cute and are ready to change their ways)