The first time I found out that Americans eat off paper plates with regularity I was stunned beyond words. It's something I cannot fathom. In Australia we eat off paper plates at picnics, and maybe occasionally at a barbeque. That's it.

It still completely spins me out.

Is it really, truly the norm there?

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We've got rules and maps and guns in our backs, but we still can't just behave ourselves. Even if to save our own lives, we are a brutal kind. The Shins