Should've installed linux 🤷

I work in a hotel.

One day, a family comes to the reception to tell me that their window is broken, asking me to change their room. I ask if I can take a look.

It turns out, they didn't know the existence of tilt & turn windows and were scared that the window was going to fall down lol

I'd settle for socialized healthcare

Jokes on you, my windows make a light breeze when shut!

Imagine not having screens in your windows.

This post was made by the flying insects gang.

I don't use windows. I prefer linux

Put a screen in that fancy window and then we’ll talk.

In America we have to keep our windows closed to keep out the fent smoke and bullets.

I get it's all memes and fun, but I am so tired of this constant 'Europe does this better', 'USA is supreme for that'.

While I agree that our windows are generally superior from a functional perspective, the Americans have us beat in the fact that you can't install a window AC unit in our windows.

Hence we get to just die in the increasingly common heat waves. Not great - we've got to figure this one out.

Before portable ACs are mentioned - I'll point out that they have terrible efficiency, and connecting the tube to blow out the hot air is still terrible with European windows.

I admit I'm an American and my windows don't open that way, but I'm not sure why whoever made that meme thinks that means a light breeze can't come through them. Because... a light breeze can come through them.

Imagine not having AC like much of Europe

I can just slide my window up a bit.

Sorry Europeans, I can't hear you over my HVAC system with abundant domestic methane reserves.

It's not like our windows don't open, they just don't tilt. I frequently open the windows and get a breeze going when it's nice outside!

They aren't standard in the US, but I promise you these windows exist here. My parents installed them in their home

People act like you can't just order these kinds of windows in the US. It's not the default, but you can just ask about them if you know about them.

this is how we do out here in the heartland

Lite breezes were great maybe 30 yrs ago. With modern heat waves and obesity you gonna sweat like a mofo 'les you figure out how to put an AC up in that tilt.

Southamerican living in Spain here.

First time I saw those windows my mind blew to pieces.

I'm fine. Central HVAC, no need for a breeze

Lol wtf? Why can't you get a light breeze without tilting windows?

Or, know, we could just crack open the bottom (in the case of the popular double hung, the top) of the window a little bit. But it is-3c (yes, we Americans understand metric) where I am now, so I have no interest in doing that. No Gulf Stream keeping us relatively mild in winter over here.

Listen, you want to brag about health care, public transit, intercity high speed rail, or historic buildings, fine, you got us there. But stop with the air if superiority about everything else.

Imagine not having screens on the windows and letting every single bug in the nearby area take up residence inside and being okay with it cuz "it's only a few months out of the year".

🤢 it's the fucking worst.

Ah, but that classic wood-on-wood sliding window, where all that stands between a destructive crash is an irreplaceable rope installed inside walls when the house was built.

Imagine being a European and having your head so far up your own ass you start to disappear

America is huge. We have areas with weather just like Europe and areas with weather nothing like Europe. One country but many weathers.

Tilting you windows is a nice option that i rarely use. Most if the time its STOẞLÜFTEN as we germans like to say (opening the windows wide up to really let in all the fresh air).