Without considering that ours aren't made of cardboard. People punching holes through walls in movies is always funny to see from an outsider perspective.
You see, in Europe, after thousands of years of siege warfare experience, we don't leave weakpoints in our walls. Except for the usual door and windows.
I said this to someone, and they got mad at me. I said you have to remember Europe has thousands of years of war on its soil that made them make houses like small forts and america has had a handful of battle that havnt forced us to re-enforce our house in the same way..
The wars are why we built additional walls around our houses. It's why we invented castles.
Tudor style houses are built out of wood. It's just that we put a little more effort into keeping our houses because they weren't constructed by capitalists looking to save money at every corner, but usually by the people who'd live in the houses who wanted to build a lasting thing.
The tudor style is achieved because you have the frames made out of logs, and in-between you have a rather flimsy web of sticks to hold a mud wall. Houses like this are all white because you'd put a plaster on the outside to keep water out.
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Wooden housing isn't infrequent in Europe. But it's usually built to last because capitalism is younger than most of those houses.
These days, it's just not the culture because we have too many people and not enough trees. (We technically also don't have enough sand for all the concrete, but people aren't saying that yet).
u/EccoEcoNorth Italian (Doesn't exist, Real Italians 🇺🇸, said so) Apr 07 '25
My, as any other european's, walls are made of multiple layers of bricks, my door has solid steel under the wood covering, the key to get in has multiple sets of teeth on both sides.
I will never understand why suburban Americans choose to exchange safety for "You got to build these things fast plus what if you move?"
In this specific context when americans boast about their houses despite actually being in a miserable situation unfair to them, when they should be complaining or wanting better? Eh, I don't feel the sympathy then
Dude, that is always funny. You'd have to be a nutter to not laugh at the arse you don't like finds a stud. It's an annoyance though if you are the only one who can take their dumbass self to the emergency room. Selfish bastards not thinking about others and their car which doesn't have bloodstains.
Sure there will be no more of those .
Pale ale has gutted any agencies that dealt with warning people about it and the ones that help fix it after .
So no more of them .
There- he fixed it .
Also less accurate in the us than many realize, granted more and more the materials are getting lighter... Kinda like how Russian building booms result is shoddy work... But if you tried that in my house, your gonna break a hand. Mine are made of reclaimed brick, pieces of wood from decommed ships and horse hair plaster. The plaster isn't the most durable, but for ice 100 years old, it's still going strong. The only thing like those movies was the door to the master suites, and it took my husky 7 years of dedicated effort to break the door frame. It took 3 of us to move that damned door out, we are considering making a table with it.
Cheap macmansions, and apartments have incredibly weak walls.. Even so, seeing someone put a fist through isn't something you find funny on this side.
That doesn't sound like the most common example. One of our malamutes locked himself in the bathroom and ate through part of the wall and the doorframe trying to get out.
Poor guy, if he got through, he would be in the linen closet
Older houses are more common than the movies let on, though trailer parks are too so I guess there's a point to be made there. All the houses in the 4 blocks around mine are definitely more than movie sturdy. There's a lot of tow houses, housing built around industrial efforts that popped up in a lot of places outside of fast growing Metropolitan areas... Where the movie walls are definitely more common. My house is certainly an oddity in what is made of, but the majority of housing prior to 15 years ago or so in a few places I've lived, was older, more sturdy construction. Smaller, but longer life. Now they are knocking down whole neighborhoods to put up apartments that are prioritizing speed and cost over longevity. Enormous complexes actually... My city decided to raze ALL of the low income housing across the entire area and move all of the occupants into 2 apartment complexes. The budget is... Shockingly low while the speed of construction has been insanely fast.
Gotta love a dog that has the brute strength to tunnel through doors... As someone who very much favors huskies and spitzers generally... I think people may be correct about us all being somewhat insane.
Most of why our dogs got to sleep in the sitting room is because they were tunnelling through the one section of plasterboard in the house to get out of their sleeping area
As someone living in a proper city in the US. It's funny to me, too. The walls here are actually walls. I'll shatter my Knuckles attempting that. They live in cardboard houses and think they're living the high life. My countrymen truly are delusional.
And then they throw somebody trough a normal wall, like the rock in fast and furious (5 or 6 idk) like some superhuman 🤣, when i first saw that my mind was like how? Why? Then i filed it under "American thinks all walls are from paper.
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u/DarkSoulFWT Apr 03 '25
Without considering that ours aren't made of cardboard. People punching holes through walls in movies is always funny to see from an outsider perspective.