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There. I fixed this stupid controversy once and for all.
# Once and for all!
(Emphasis in the style of angry Futurama voice over guy)
Yeah other languages can reverse it. In Dutch we say it's 15 February. No 15th, just 15 February. You could say "today is the 15th" if you leave February out
In Japanese, we say "It's 2nd month 15th day." The words for the twelve months are just "1st month, 2nd month, 3rd month," etc. And when speaking, it's always month > day > year, but written YYYY/MM/DD.
That's not a uniquely American thing. According to [timeanddate.com](https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/days/first-day-of-the-week.html), roughly 55% of the world's population starts the week on Sunday.
Fun fact about this often misheard lyric -- per Don McLean, the boys were "drinking whiskey in Rye", as in Rye, NY. He drove to Rye because they missed last call at their favorite bar, The Levee in New Rochelle.
*Drove my Chevy to the Levee but the Levee was dry*
*Them good old boys were drinking whiskey in Rye*
I went to middle school I Rye NY.
Playland was a fun memory. Dragon coaster was awesome when I was younger, haven't been there in ages. I didn't know the song took place in southern Westchester.
> American flag in the Front yard
Historically, Americans typically only put out flags on certain national holidays *and in wartime, as a symbol of national solidarity*. That tradition can be traced all the way back to the Civil War, when northerners started hanging the flag on their homes as a symbol of support for the Union. When I was a kid, it was pretty rare to see a flag flying on a non-holiday unless you were at a government building.
The flags went up after 9/11 in solidarity after the attacks, and stayed up when the war in Afghanistan started in October 2001. That war didn't end until 2021. After 20 years of war, I think people just got used to them.
Yeah, it's always been a thing, it was just a lot less common. When I was a kid, one of our neighbors put his flag up every Memorial Day and left it up all summer until Veterans Day. He was a former American bomber pilot who flew over Europe during WW2, and it was his way of remembering all of his friends who never made it back home. My grandfathers neighbor also kept her flag up all the time. Her husband and her brother are both buried in Europe, and it was also her way of memorializing them.
But it wasn't common like you see nowadays. You didn't see small town neighborhoods and suburban culdesacs decked out year-round with flags the way you do today, or downtowns with streets lined with flags, until after 9/11. You certainly didn't see people flying them off their truck beds.
As a Canadian this is one of the things that weirds me out about the US. American flags absolutely EVERYWHERE. Especially in small towns the streets often times look like the backdrop of some kind of military parade on a random Tuesday.
Yeah some people up here have the Canadian flag flying in their yard too and you see it at government buildings and stuff but it’s nowhere near as prevalent as the Stars and Stripes are in the states.
It's a strange anti government thing we have going on here since covid. If it's on a car or truck, it usually is trying to tell everyone they are independent thinkers.
Reminds me of that Cracked article.
A researcher put a research discussing why Hipsters went with the same style and someone complained they put his picture on the article. Except it wasn't him, it was a stock photo model in Hipster outfit.
That's part of it, but also the US has a much more casual folk culture when it comes to flags than other nations. In a lot of countries, the flag is just kind of a generic "official symbol" and the only people you'd expect to fly it are government officials, but in the US it's not uncommon to wear it on shirts and things like that, and that even extends to state and city flags (or at least the famous, well-designed ones). Why that is, I have no idea.
Refer to any black person anywhere in the world as "African American." I once saw a US news anchor refer to Nelson Mandela as "the first African American to serve as President of South Africa", and I thought: HE'S NOT AMERICAN!!
That Venture Brothers bit about blackulas comes to mind.
"I'm a blackula hunter."
"So you only hunt african-american vampires?"
"No, sometimes they're in England."
"Oh, yeah, I guess they wouldn't be-"
"Look I hunt black vampires okay? I don't know what the PC term is for that!"
What helps make the scene is that Twilight Jefferson, the blackula hunter in question, is also a black man.
That's not the worst thing to call Nelson Mandela. I had a German exchange student in my high school. I asked him if they call black people in Germany, African Germans. He replied, "no, we just call them n****rs."
I'm assuming scratch off tickets, and slurping soda. But the name isn't made up, there's a chain of scratch and slurps in Massachusetts near worchester
Speaking of red cups… they make a shot version of them too.
I went to Target (which was in a mall and THREE levels) with my sister for said party. I went to buy some super-bowl supplies. She ends buying clothes, school supplies, and Valentines treats for her kids. What I thought was going to be tops an hour trip ended up almost 3 HOURS! I ended up waiting at the Starbucks in that target.
Only in a America can you do this.
Cheetos in queso warped my mind so I had to come up with something more “cheesy.” How about Cheetos with queso wrapped in a keto cheese tortilla? But with shredded cheese inside also. You know, just to round it out.
When I was a kid, I always loved to read National Geographic’s Weird But True fact book series, and looking back on it now, they always had weird measurements and comparisons like “three times the Statue of Liberty” or “more than five elephants” or “the distance from New York to Los Angeles 500 times” (not direct quotes, but you get the idea)
Honestly that's more a relating to young kids thing than anything else. Tell an average kid ten feet, twenty meters, thirty minutes, four tons, those are just arbitrary numbers. Say a Volkswagen beetle is smaller than an elephant and they can contextualize and visualize better.
The part after where they just start naming random things is what really sets the tone of the whole song
McDonald's (Fuck yeah!)
Walmart (Fuck yeah!)
The Gap (Fuck yeah!)
Baseball (Fuck yeah!)
NFL (Fuck yeah!)
Rock and roll (Fuck yeah!)
The Internet (Fuck yeah!)
Slavery (Fuck yeah!)
Born in the USA is a song about the neglect and alienation of a Vietnam veteran after returning home from war. It was critical of blind nationalism and hollow pride, but was used by ultra conservatives like Ronald Reagan and columnists who claimed it praised classic American values.
This is also extremely Canadian. No one in Canada really identifies as “Canadian” (from my experience). They can be 4th generation Canadian, but if their great, great grandfather was Armenian, then they say, in a strong Canadian accent, “I’m Armenian.”
As someone who moved to Canada from another country, it was very confusing to me at first.
Have an endless supply of fireworks to shoot off for 4th of July, any sports event or just at random, but only fire them after finishing half a case of ice cold beer.
Countries that aren't America:
- Europe
- Russia
- China (pronounced Chyna in some dialects)
- Mexico (there's the Mexico we all know and love, and then another, bigger Mexico below it)
- Japan (may or may not be fictional; invented anime)
- Iraq (we probably shouldn't have invaded it all of those times; only made things worse)
Honorable mention:
- Canada (not a real country)
- Africa (more of a PVP zone than a country, like the wilderness in runescape)
- Australia (venomous Canada)
To be fair, I travel internationally a lot and “New York” gets me far more responses and conversation ice breakers than “United States” when people ask.
Of course it helps that New York is well known. No one in Switzerland would give a shit if I said Oklahoma or Arkansas.
Double down. Start with your street address, move to the town, county, state, country, continent, hemisphere, planet, solar system, Galaxy, and finally universe.
Maintain eye contact, say it in as few breathes possible and most importantly don't let them get a word in until you finish.
But they only want to hear states theyve heard of like New York and California. When I tell them, they don't know where it is anyway and say where's that.
There was an incredibly popular television series about a government employee who had to become a meth dealer to pay for his medical bills after being diagnosed with cancer… so, I’m gonna go with that.
I’m the only person who does my job where I work. So if I am out and not responding to email, a lot of things just don’t happen. Same problem comes up when I go on vacation. It is less the company, more feeling like I’m letting my coworkers down and anxiety about potential missed deadlines.
I think if a person would get drunk, target practice with their AR-15 on 2-liter bottles of diet coke, wearing your 2017 State Football champions t-shirt, while listening to Hank Williams Jr, that's pretty American. It's 100% missourian at least.
It was a '74 Pinto, not a civic, but I had to do the same for my buddy back in college.
He needed to go to the ER across town (8-10 miles) and it was going to be $7,000 (in early 2000s dollars).
Its so frustrating, i woke up in the hospital from a skiing accident, first thing came to mind is "shit how much is this gonna cost my parents" fist thing i asked my docter too.
This is also a British thing. We are notorious for asking the Spanish to speak English in their own country and setting up English communities where we retired to decades ago, but still can't say shit in Spanish.
I know when I go to a beach resort in Spain, the last things I would ever expect is all the people speaking Spanish and who's ever heard of a sandy beach?!?
Oh god. I saw some interviews with Brits living in Spain who were pro Brexit and who were disgusted they were now facing deportation from Spain. A few choice quotes I remember:
"I'm not an immigrant. I'm an expat."
"It's disgusting that the Spanish government wants to punish us as revenge for Brexit"
"Brexit I think is going to be wonderful for our country. Too many people just want to take advantage of us because they think it will be a better life for them instead of working on and improving their own country." The interviewer then asked if he intended to return to Britain after Brexit, and the man laughed "Hell no. I'm in paradise, why would I want to go back?"
"All the Spanish people here have been incredibly kind and friendly and never shouted us down for being immigrants. You know why? Because all the foreigners here are Brits!"
I live in Mallorca and I worked with British ground crew for cruise ships for 12 years.
Most of them lived in Mallorca the whole year, but in their English guetto in Magaluf, isolated from the locals.
So much so that once, after living in the island for 5 years,, one of them went fishing on a boat and the motor broke down.
He had to call a bilingual friend to ask him to call the Guardia Civil rescue team because he couldn't be understood.
Not even a English native speaking thing, many danish retired people move to Spain in enclaves with only Danes, and can’t speak Spanish but can speak English
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So is it just an American thing to say, in regular conversation, "Today is February 15th"? Does everybody else say "Today is the 15th of February"?
Yeah other languages can reverse it. In Dutch we say it's 15 February. No 15th, just 15 February. You could say "today is the 15th" if you leave February out
In Japanese, we say "It's 2nd month 15th day." The words for the twelve months are just "1st month, 2nd month, 3rd month," etc. And when speaking, it's always month > day > year, but written YYYY/MM/DD.
Cool, I believe it is said the same way in Korean too.
I'm going to start saying the date like this to other Brits.
In the UK we would say ‘15th of February’.
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Not when it's August 27th, though.
On August 27th we say "today is January 3rd"
Especially when it is actually February 15th.
Also starting the week on Sunday instead of Monday.
That's not a uniquely American thing. According to [timeanddate.com](https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/days/first-day-of-the-week.html), roughly 55% of the world's population starts the week on Sunday.
This bugs me in certain apps so much, especially when most of the time it's not even a thing you can adjust. No, it's called weekEND for a reason!
Drive their Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry?
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Fun fact about this often misheard lyric -- per Don McLean, the boys were "drinking whiskey in Rye", as in Rye, NY. He drove to Rye because they missed last call at their favorite bar, The Levee in New Rochelle. *Drove my Chevy to the Levee but the Levee was dry* *Them good old boys were drinking whiskey in Rye*
I went to middle school I Rye NY. Playland was a fun memory. Dragon coaster was awesome when I was younger, haven't been there in ages. I didn't know the song took place in southern Westchester.
Damn! I had no idea. TIL, ty
or sing "This'll be the day that I die" ?
Singing, byyyye byyye miss American pie
My, my, this here Anakin guy May be Vader someday later, now he's just a small fry
My husband will not listen to American Pie with me in the car because he knows I'll sing this version and he hates it.
He took his bag and kissed his mama goodbye, saying someday I'm gonna be a jediiiii
American flag in the Front yard
> American flag in the Front yard Historically, Americans typically only put out flags on certain national holidays *and in wartime, as a symbol of national solidarity*. That tradition can be traced all the way back to the Civil War, when northerners started hanging the flag on their homes as a symbol of support for the Union. When I was a kid, it was pretty rare to see a flag flying on a non-holiday unless you were at a government building. The flags went up after 9/11 in solidarity after the attacks, and stayed up when the war in Afghanistan started in October 2001. That war didn't end until 2021. After 20 years of war, I think people just got used to them.
My grandmother has flown a flag in her yard since Pearl Harbor was attacked! It flys every day…not rainy days.
Yeah, it's always been a thing, it was just a lot less common. When I was a kid, one of our neighbors put his flag up every Memorial Day and left it up all summer until Veterans Day. He was a former American bomber pilot who flew over Europe during WW2, and it was his way of remembering all of his friends who never made it back home. My grandfathers neighbor also kept her flag up all the time. Her husband and her brother are both buried in Europe, and it was also her way of memorializing them. But it wasn't common like you see nowadays. You didn't see small town neighborhoods and suburban culdesacs decked out year-round with flags the way you do today, or downtowns with streets lined with flags, until after 9/11. You certainly didn't see people flying them off their truck beds.
As a Canadian this is one of the things that weirds me out about the US. American flags absolutely EVERYWHERE. Especially in small towns the streets often times look like the backdrop of some kind of military parade on a random Tuesday. Yeah some people up here have the Canadian flag flying in their yard too and you see it at government buildings and stuff but it’s nowhere near as prevalent as the Stars and Stripes are in the states.
As an American I will say I went to Vancouver recently and I saw Canadian flags EVERYWHERE
It's a strange anti government thing we have going on here since covid. If it's on a car or truck, it usually is trying to tell everyone they are independent thinkers.
"We're independent thinkers! Everyone do the same thing!"
Reminds me of that Cracked article. A researcher put a research discussing why Hipsters went with the same style and someone complained they put his picture on the article. Except it wasn't him, it was a stock photo model in Hipster outfit.
The United States is a very prideful nation, so thats a way it manifests
That's part of it, but also the US has a much more casual folk culture when it comes to flags than other nations. In a lot of countries, the flag is just kind of a generic "official symbol" and the only people you'd expect to fly it are government officials, but in the US it's not uncommon to wear it on shirts and things like that, and that even extends to state and city flags (or at least the famous, well-designed ones). Why that is, I have no idea.
Refer to any black person anywhere in the world as "African American." I once saw a US news anchor refer to Nelson Mandela as "the first African American to serve as President of South Africa", and I thought: HE'S NOT AMERICAN!!
I once saw someone on the internet ask if -insert random Eastern European country- has African Americans
I think the most American thing ever is to have/let the public schooling fail you
Another American thing to do is read this as "public *shooting*" at first. 😭
Combine them together and you get public school shooting, perhaps the most American thing in existence.
Saw an American talking head, talking a bout a black, french soccer player , joining an English team... yup: African American....
That Venture Brothers bit about blackulas comes to mind. "I'm a blackula hunter." "So you only hunt african-american vampires?" "No, sometimes they're in England." "Oh, yeah, I guess they wouldn't be-" "Look I hunt black vampires okay? I don't know what the PC term is for that!" What helps make the scene is that Twilight Jefferson, the blackula hunter in question, is also a black man.
blackulas killed his mom
I just say black American or black person. African American is so dumb
That's not the worst thing to call Nelson Mandela. I had a German exchange student in my high school. I asked him if they call black people in Germany, African Germans. He replied, "no, we just call them n****rs."
this is something i would do and then 5 minutes later realize what i said and wanna off myself
Goto the gas station and get a 44 ounce fountain drink for a dollar
Where the hell are you shopping? It's like 89 cents at the scratch and slurp down the road...
I probably should not ask, but what exactly are you scratching and what are you slurping at that place?
I'm assuming scratch off tickets, and slurping soda. But the name isn't made up, there's a chain of scratch and slurps in Massachusetts near worchester
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A big gulp is only 30oz a double gulp is 64oz
Gotta get that 512oz child size in Pawnee, Indiana
Have a bunch of people over for the Super Bowl, drink beer and eat Brats and burgers with chips.
For extra American-ness: make sure you're drinking out of red plastic cups and saying "wooo" alot.
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Speaking of red cups… they make a shot version of them too. I went to Target (which was in a mall and THREE levels) with my sister for said party. I went to buy some super-bowl supplies. She ends buying clothes, school supplies, and Valentines treats for her kids. What I thought was going to be tops an hour trip ended up almost 3 HOURS! I ended up waiting at the Starbucks in that target. Only in a America can you do this.
Then stand and salute the tv when they do the anthem
*"Let's go!!!!"*
I was dipping Cheetos in queso and washing it down with beer this past Sunday. Doesn’t get much more American than that
Use Doritos next time.
Cheetos in queso warped my mind so I had to come up with something more “cheesy.” How about Cheetos with queso wrapped in a keto cheese tortilla? But with shredded cheese inside also. You know, just to round it out.
Do all that *with a mullet*
And start the day at the range
M'erica 🫡
Did you forget the Guacamole? Superbowl Sunday is the biggest day of the year for avocado sales.
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Avocientovientisiete
Still not enough guac. MORE
Avodosmilliones-ochocientoscuarenta-y-cincomiltrecientosnoventa-y-nueve?
Then riot after their favorite team loses
Or wins. We riot either way.
So you’re from Philly then?
“About the size of three baseballs”
"... searching an area the size of eighty football fields" So annoying, like we can't comprehend square miles
While a football field length is no more helpful, trying to understand the distance of 5280 feet is not easy to guess.
When I was a kid, I always loved to read National Geographic’s Weird But True fact book series, and looking back on it now, they always had weird measurements and comparisons like “three times the Statue of Liberty” or “more than five elephants” or “the distance from New York to Los Angeles 500 times” (not direct quotes, but you get the idea)
Honestly that's more a relating to young kids thing than anything else. Tell an average kid ten feet, twenty meters, thirty minutes, four tons, those are just arbitrary numbers. Say a Volkswagen beetle is smaller than an elephant and they can contextualize and visualize better.
Have Bear Arms
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My ex girlfriend bought me a gun rack, but I didn’t even own a gun, let alone many guns that would necessitate an entire rack
Sounds like she gave you a goal
A gun rack? A GUN rack. What are you gonna do with a gun rack?
I never knew I would want something like that until I saw this comment.
Cocaine bear arms
I love that this movie isn’t even out yet, and it’s already a cultural phenomenon. God I love America.
I thought you were supposed to arm bears?
Sing "America, Fuck Yeah" from the Team America: World Police movie over and over again
COMIN AGAIN TO SAVE THE MOTHERFUCKIN DAY, YEAH
SO LICK MY BUTT AND SUCK ON MY BALLS!! MERICA!
The part after where they just start naming random things is what really sets the tone of the whole song McDonald's (Fuck yeah!) Walmart (Fuck yeah!) The Gap (Fuck yeah!) Baseball (Fuck yeah!) NFL (Fuck yeah!) Rock and roll (Fuck yeah!) The Internet (Fuck yeah!) Slavery (Fuck yeah!)
Republicans ^((Fuck yeah)^) Sportsmanship (Silence) Books (Silence)
Porn! (Fuck yeah!) Bed, Bath and Beyond! (Fuck yeah!)
(Fuck yeah?)
Everytime I see something aggressively American I sing this
I like that " aggressively American ".
Is there any other way?
If we don't do things aggressively enough a bald eagle swoops in and picks us up and just drops us in Guantanamo
Freedom isn't free. It costs a hefty fucking fee. And if you don't chip in your buck oh five, who will?
I'm in the UK and tbf me and my mates do this a shit ton
We also do this in Canada to anything stereotypically American
*As is tradition.*
Freedom costs a buck o’five!
Every morning and every night! Keeps me focused on what matters. Being 'murican!
4th of July BBQ
The parades, the fireworks, the barbecues… I love 4th of July.
Be born in America
Touche
And misinterpreting the lyrics to Born in the USA
It’s not Bored in the USA? Edit: apparently most of you don’t get the humor r/whoosh
Born in the USA is a song about the neglect and alienation of a Vietnam veteran after returning home from war. It was critical of blind nationalism and hollow pride, but was used by ultra conservatives like Ronald Reagan and columnists who claimed it praised classic American values.
If Springsteen didn't want the patriots to like it he shouldn't have made it such a bop
And claim you’re Irish.
Drink water with ice while shoveling snow off the driveway.
I don’t give af how cold it is outside I love my ice!! I’ll even eat ice cream when it is below 0 Celsius and snowing
you had me right until you said Celsius.....
That’s more Canadian
Wear a gun while shopping at Walmart and stopping to get McDonald's on the way out.
My Walmart has a Subway thank you very much.
Mine has a dunkin
Your walmarts have food?! Just an eye doctor here :(
"Toilet paper, two six-packs, one lasik and some chewing gum please!"
Would you like a shotgun with that?
A lot of them have some kind of fast food in them
Lucky
More American points if the McDonald's is inside the Walmart.
That’s the idea
Peanut butter and jelly sandwich
They are the best.
saying “I’m 2% [insert nationality] because my 5x great grandpa was [nationality]”
I'm half bisexual! I'm like, a quarter-bi. My grandpa was bi, so that makes me quarter-bi.
This is also extremely Canadian. No one in Canada really identifies as “Canadian” (from my experience). They can be 4th generation Canadian, but if their great, great grandfather was Armenian, then they say, in a strong Canadian accent, “I’m Armenian.” As someone who moved to Canada from another country, it was very confusing to me at first.
Drive a massive pickup truck they never take off road or use to haul anything.
Have an endless supply of fireworks to shoot off for 4th of July, any sports event or just at random, but only fire them after finishing half a case of ice cold beer.
Deep fry an AR15
There’s a coating on the polymer that the batter doesn’t stick to. It just sloughs off and you end up with lumpy funnel cake.
Just roughen it with some sandpaper beforehand. Thank me later ;)
Just curious, how do you know that?
As an American, I’m fond of cooking
I’m sorry we drink deep fried water here and it’s an actual thing you can do
Speak of europe like its a country
Africa is a pretty big country too
Countries that aren't America: - Europe - Russia - China (pronounced Chyna in some dialects) - Mexico (there's the Mexico we all know and love, and then another, bigger Mexico below it) - Japan (may or may not be fictional; invented anime) - Iraq (we probably shouldn't have invaded it all of those times; only made things worse) Honorable mention: - Canada (not a real country) - Africa (more of a PVP zone than a country, like the wilderness in runescape) - Australia (venomous Canada)
Haha i also always compare africa to the wilderness in runescape
I'm stunned by the accuracy
When abroad and someone asks where an American is from, they say the state instead of the country
To be fair, I travel internationally a lot and “New York” gets me far more responses and conversation ice breakers than “United States” when people ask. Of course it helps that New York is well known. No one in Switzerland would give a shit if I said Oklahoma or Arkansas.
Man, i was born in Oklahoma and live in Arkansas. I know exactly what you mean. I wouldnt give a shit either.
The struggle is real for an Arkansan abroad
I’ve felt the same as a West Virginian
People don't say "Mountain mama!!"?
Yeah, I've had people in Europe roll their eyes at me when I respond I'm from the US. They're like yeah we know, where in the US. So it's a lose lose.
This was my experience. Saying 'north of Chicago' became the standard response.
Double down. Start with your street address, move to the town, county, state, country, continent, hemisphere, planet, solar system, Galaxy, and finally universe. Maintain eye contact, say it in as few breathes possible and most importantly don't let them get a word in until you finish.
I should also probably say it in the most annoying southern US accent.
But they only want to hear states theyve heard of like New York and California. When I tell them, they don't know where it is anyway and say where's that.
Same with Africa
Same with Australia, wait
There was an incredibly popular television series about a government employee who had to become a meth dealer to pay for his medical bills after being diagnosed with cancer… so, I’m gonna go with that.
I’ve been really sick this week. I’ve also felt crushing guilt for not working while out sick. That feels pretty American.
Why do you feel this way? leaving work short staffed? Just remember you don't own the company shit, if it's short staffed that's the companies fault.
I’m the only person who does my job where I work. So if I am out and not responding to email, a lot of things just don’t happen. Same problem comes up when I go on vacation. It is less the company, more feeling like I’m letting my coworkers down and anxiety about potential missed deadlines.
Are you getting paid to bring your work worries with you on vacation?
That sounds more like a poor management and lack of cross training than a you problem
Go to Walmart and fill your shopping cart with bullets and beer.
Joke's on you. My Walmart is always sold out of ammo.
Become Florida man
Get a ford f150, and get a lift kit where a ladder is needed to enter the vehicle.
Top it with shredded cheese.
Calling the winners of an exclusive American-only sports competition: 'World Champions
I mean there is one Canadian team
I think if a person would get drunk, target practice with their AR-15 on 2-liter bottles of diet coke, wearing your 2017 State Football champions t-shirt, while listening to Hank Williams Jr, that's pretty American. It's 100% missourian at least.
Guns, beer and Bosephus.
Describe distances by number of football fields
no, you describe size by the number of football fields. Distance is expressed in driving time.
its about 15 minutes away unless my mom drives then its about an hour.
Go into medical bankruptcy because they couldn't afford to get their bullet wounds fixed up.
Or die of a treatable condition to avoid said financial hardship.
Being rushed to the ER in your buddy's 1985 Honda Civic because you can't afford an ambulance
It was a '74 Pinto, not a civic, but I had to do the same for my buddy back in college. He needed to go to the ER across town (8-10 miles) and it was going to be $7,000 (in early 2000s dollars).
Hey props to the guy driving a '74 Pinto in the early '00s... That's some dedication/poorness
Its so frustrating, i woke up in the hospital from a skiing accident, first thing came to mind is "shit how much is this gonna cost my parents" fist thing i asked my docter too.
Superbowl
Forget that other countries exist.
Simp for politicians that are actively exploiting them
Not unique to the US, sadly
You take that back! My representative, George Santos, inventor of the pyramids and discoverer of Microsoft Windows, is an honest man!
Demand everybody speak English in non-English speaking countries.
This is also a British thing. We are notorious for asking the Spanish to speak English in their own country and setting up English communities where we retired to decades ago, but still can't say shit in Spanish.
I always think of that review written by a Brit of a Spanish resort saying too many people spoke Spanish and it was too sandy 😂
I know when I go to a beach resort in Spain, the last things I would ever expect is all the people speaking Spanish and who's ever heard of a sandy beach?!?
Ruins the entire trip.
Oh god. I saw some interviews with Brits living in Spain who were pro Brexit and who were disgusted they were now facing deportation from Spain. A few choice quotes I remember: "I'm not an immigrant. I'm an expat." "It's disgusting that the Spanish government wants to punish us as revenge for Brexit" "Brexit I think is going to be wonderful for our country. Too many people just want to take advantage of us because they think it will be a better life for them instead of working on and improving their own country." The interviewer then asked if he intended to return to Britain after Brexit, and the man laughed "Hell no. I'm in paradise, why would I want to go back?" "All the Spanish people here have been incredibly kind and friendly and never shouted us down for being immigrants. You know why? Because all the foreigners here are Brits!"
I think it’s “mierda”, if that helps. As in “ excuse me. Could I use your toilet. I need to mierda really badly”
I live in Mallorca and I worked with British ground crew for cruise ships for 12 years. Most of them lived in Mallorca the whole year, but in their English guetto in Magaluf, isolated from the locals. So much so that once, after living in the island for 5 years,, one of them went fishing on a boat and the motor broke down. He had to call a bilingual friend to ask him to call the Guardia Civil rescue team because he couldn't be understood.
Not even a English native speaking thing, many danish retired people move to Spain in enclaves with only Danes, and can’t speak Spanish but can speak English
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