1. biscuits & gravy2. rodeo3. smores or smore’s or smore(s)4. “a super bowl”5. stoops6. speakeasy7. “high school prom”8. cheese in a can9. dr pepper
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 4 February 2018 11:35 (six years ago) link
smore
wtf?
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 February 2018 11:35 (six years ago) link
Steely DanThe Beat Generation
― calstars, Sunday, 4 February 2018 12:32 (six years ago) link
10. "democracy"11. mac 'n cheese12. sherrifs
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 4 February 2018 14:20 (six years ago) link
It's s'mores and it's short for some more.
― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 4 February 2018 15:43 (six years ago) link
13. those varsity jackets with a big letter on the front14. propeller beanie hats
― soref, Sunday, 4 February 2018 16:10 (six years ago) link
15. grits
― WilliamC, Sunday, 4 February 2018 16:16 (six years ago) link
16. Shriners
https://s.hswstatic.com/gif/shriners-little-cars-1200x800.jpg
― soref, Sunday, 4 February 2018 16:18 (six years ago) link
monster trucks
― ciderpress, Sunday, 4 February 2018 17:49 (six years ago) link
bisonbass fishing tournamentsYellowstone Park
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 4 February 2018 19:06 (six years ago) link
Looney Tunes cartoons
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 4 February 2018 19:23 (six years ago) link
22. tipping
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Sunday, 4 February 2018 19:49 (six years ago) link
Mate,
https://i.imgur.com/kjgsMLQ.jpg
― pplains, Sunday, 4 February 2018 20:27 (six years ago) link
I mean, don't forget 23. Indigenous Genocide, but, you know.
― pplains, Sunday, 4 February 2018 20:28 (six years ago) link
if we're going down that route let's not forget 24. slavery
― i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 4 February 2018 20:36 (six years ago) link
and of course 25. egg creams
slavery has existed everywhere for all recorded history. hardly confined to America, although we certainly embraced one of the most brutal forms of it for a couple centuries.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:01 (six years ago) link
26 white ppl27 mayonnaise28 conway twitty29 all the bad things30 no good things
― sleepingbag, Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:03 (six years ago) link
31 guns guns guns love guns need guns32 sabermetrics33 god
(Holland surely king of mayonnaise though, for better or for worse)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:12 (six years ago) link
34. (With drawl) PICKUP TRUCK. GIDDY UP COWBOY.
― infinity (∞), Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:13 (six years ago) link
35. 99.9% of all "cultural appropriation"
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:13 (six years ago) link
36. $$$
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:17 (six years ago) link
37. Road Trips38. Self Help39. Seminars on how to flip properties with no money down
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:26 (six years ago) link
40. Hawaii
― calstars, Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:29 (six years ago) link
41. Grand slams
― calstars, Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:30 (six years ago) link
42. Brian Wilson
― calstars, Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:38 (six years ago) link
43. drive-in cinemas
― soref, Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:42 (six years ago) link
44. john cena
― i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:43 (six years ago) link
(19)45. the atomic bomb
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:44 (six years ago) link
(19)46. Donald John Trump
― infinity (∞), Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:45 (six years ago) link
Just sayin some of these things aren't exclusively American. They're everybody's!
― pplains, Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:45 (six years ago) link
47. Superhero movies for "grownups"
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:46 (six years ago) link
48. jack kirby
― i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:55 (six years ago) link
49. jack ruby
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:55 (six years ago) link
27 mayonnaise
27 "ranch"
― Number None, Sunday, 4 February 2018 22:16 (six years ago) link
ranch-style houses
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 4 February 2018 22:19 (six years ago) link
Ranch might be the most american word there is. The sound of it, the meaning, the house style, the dressing. It's 100% American.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Sunday, 4 February 2018 22:23 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/IOlj6Lw.jpg
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Sunday, 4 February 2018 22:28 (six years ago) link
51. Saturday Night Live and dozens of comedy series and comedians no-one's ever heard of.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 February 2018 22:33 (six years ago) link
... no-one else, that is.
Every nation seems to have its b-list comedy that doesn't escape its borders though
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Sunday, 4 February 2018 22:45 (six years ago) link
I mean there are all these british comedians called "Jimmy Pram" or "Tolliver Whelk" or whatever that the britishers on the board seem to reference a lot.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Sunday, 4 February 2018 22:47 (six years ago) link
52. happy endings53. late night shows54. hyper-capitalism55. "football"56. "soccer"
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 4 February 2018 22:50 (six years ago) link
ItaliansIrish
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Sunday, 4 February 2018 22:51 (six years ago) link
57. Barack Hussein Obama58. Velveeta
― droit au butt (Euler), Sunday, 4 February 2018 22:51 (six years ago) link
Misuse of the collective clause when referring to sports teams
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Sunday, 4 February 2018 22:52 (six years ago) link
Saturday Night Live is b-list?
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:09 (six years ago) link
'Math'
American comedy is painfully unfunny. There's no real bite, no real cynicism, it always has to be nicey nicey in the end. A or B list, SNL fits that bill surely.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:11 (six years ago) link
today, sure. I think SNL at its best (maybe 80s-early 90s) was good exactly because it captured and spoofed that wide-eyed lack of cynicism. Kevin Nealon comes to mind, and all of the fake commercials. Since at least Will Ferrell and maybe going back to Chris Farley and Adam Sandler though the style of comedy has been very "I AM BEING FUNNY RIGHT NOW! DO YOU SEE ME BEING FUNNY!"
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:15 (six years ago) link
(kind of a dumb comment I guess since Nealon overlapped with Farley and Sandler)
snl national lampoon and mad magazine none funny none ever funny
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:17 (six years ago) link
A or B list, SNL fits that bill surely.
I wouldn't know, I've never seen it.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:18 (six years ago) link
Clips I've seen look dire though.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:19 (six years ago) link
'Mr. President'
59. gunz
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:23 (six years ago) link
60. Patriotism
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:26 (six years ago) link
61. "GET IN THE HOLE!"
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:28 (six years ago) link
'Math'perfect
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:41 (six years ago) link
62. sports63. the hospital64. vacation
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:47 (six years ago) link
The hospital?
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:51 (six years ago) link
65. institutional racism perfected66. bumper stickers67. trailer parks
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:53 (six years ago) link
ItaliansIrish-darraghmac
― infinity (∞), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:54 (six years ago) link
68. 'erbs
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:57 (six years ago) link
69. Missing out u's from words and -er endings instead of -re.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:58 (six years ago) link
70. hispanics
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:59 (six years ago) link
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, February 4, 2018 6:51 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
well if we're contrasting U.S. and UK usage, only we (always) use the definite article
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Monday, 5 February 2018 00:01 (six years ago) link
71. Mexico, central america, south america
― infinity (∞), Monday, 5 February 2018 00:02 (six years ago) link
72. Porches & yards.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 5 February 2018 00:06 (six years ago) link
73. Bros74. Dudes75. Broads
― calstars, Monday, 5 February 2018 00:17 (six years ago) link
76, Fraternities, sororities.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 5 February 2018 00:19 (six years ago) link
Terror of the word cunt
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Monday, 5 February 2018 00:57 (six years ago) link
ItaliansIrishi’ve never understood this
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:10 (six years ago) link
Well
U wouldn't
Your lot are all British like proper British the hooligan ones like
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:16 (six years ago) link
Never mind the Irish and the Italians, the real American thing is Germans.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:20 (six years ago) link
xp yeah but i wouldn’t take my heritage to wales and say “hi the welsh! i’m also welsh!” along with assuming all the special powers conferred by being genetically welsh
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:20 (six years ago) link
and citizenship rights
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:21 (six years ago) link
anyway i intended this thread to be light so79. hoagie
Wait do the yanks to that or do we do that
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:22 (six years ago) link
p sure you don’t do that
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:23 (six years ago) link
SNL at its best (maybe 80s-early 90s) was good
80. Arguments about when, precisely, SNL was good
― this machine inconveniences fascists (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:27 (six years ago) link
If ever u mean
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:28 (six years ago) link
Mispronouncing monty python with the confidence of a nation that will eventually decide how to pronounce monty python whatever the fuck anyone thinks
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:29 (six years ago) link
Tomatoes
Tobacco
Potatoes
Pumpkins
Peanuts
― this machine inconveniences fascists (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:36 (six years ago) link
Chocolate
YOU'RE WELCOME
― this machine inconveniences fascists (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:37 (six years ago) link
Yeah look no
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:50 (six years ago) link
Nice try but
Porn? Who invented it idk probably Californians
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:54 (six years ago) link
the Marine Corps Band playing "Hail to the Chief"
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 5 February 2018 06:07 (six years ago) link
35. 99.9% of all "cultural appropriation"― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Sunday, February 4, 2018 4:13 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Sunday, February 4, 2018 4:13 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
hm.
― (the blues version in his Broadway show) (crüt), Monday, 5 February 2018 06:40 (six years ago) link
Cap'n Crunch
― Badgers (dog latin), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 10:16 (six years ago) link
Is this the most active cogh thread ever
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 11:17 (six years ago) link
Lunar landing modulesNukesARPANETICANNSearch enginesWikisBSDUnix
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 11:22 (six years ago) link
Facebook Twitter PRISMTechnoStar Wars
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 11:25 (six years ago) link
Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac) at 7:57 4 Feb 18Terror of the word cunt
― how's life, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 11:27 (six years ago) link
Superheroes Super BowlsSuperbadSuperfortress
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 11:28 (six years ago) link
tex-mexthe monroe doctrinepaintballmuddin'american exceptionalismgallagherprosperity gospelnpr tote bags
― Men's Scarehouse - "You're gonna like the way you're shook." (m bison), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 12:05 (six years ago) link
laser tag
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 16:00 (six years ago) link
RVs
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 17:16 (six years ago) link
Lobbed one of these at a guy who wouldn't let me merge in traffic the other day. Guess I had misperceived some sort of cultural moment where we had brought this into a less fraught usage. My passenger and life partner offered a terse and uncompromising correction. May still be some time yet, lads.
fuck up cunt
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:13 (six years ago) link
npr tote bags
― Men's Scarehouse - "You're gonna like the way you're shook." (m bison), Tuesday, February 6, 2018 4:05 AM (nine hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
itt chinese things
― infinity (∞), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:17 (six years ago) link
weird old dudes that call their wife "mother"super big gulps
― Shitpost in Opposition (King Boy Pato), Saturday, 10 February 2018 11:10 (six years ago) link
fat kids
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Saturday, 10 February 2018 16:26 (six years ago) link
Ahistorical nonsense disproven by the most cursory of searcheshttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17355779/
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 10 February 2018 16:34 (six years ago) link
That appalling "podcast voice"
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Saturday, 10 February 2018 21:24 (six years ago) link
you're going to need to narrow that down
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Saturday, 10 February 2018 21:44 (six years ago) link
the mind goes first to Sarah Koenig or Ira Glass but then a soft whisper "oh no, it gets worse" then you remember Jad Abumrad
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Saturday, 10 February 2018 22:03 (six years ago) link
.....all American podcast voices are the same and i cannot listen to American podcasts as a consequence
Dead serious
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Saturday, 10 February 2018 23:42 (six years ago) link
i struggle tbh
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 11 February 2018 02:51 (six years ago) link
Jews
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Sunday, 11 February 2018 05:52 (six years ago) link
Ice water
Kraft singles
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Sunday, 11 February 2018 05:53 (six years ago) link
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Saturday, February 10, 2018 5:03 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The fact that Ira Glass, Jad Abumrad, Peter Sagal are (1) not all the same person and (2) all have jobs in fucking RADIO often boggles my mind
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Sunday, 11 February 2018 05:57 (six years ago) link
It’s not like we ban Jews from the radio just for sounding Jewish!
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Sunday, 11 February 2018 06:40 (six years ago) link
I for one find the nasally-inflected tones of my co-religionists from Ashkenaz quite soothing
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Sunday, 11 February 2018 06:42 (six years ago) link
melted butter as a dip for steaks
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Sunday, 11 February 2018 06:52 (six years ago) link
PBJBLTfluffernutterfrostingcookie dough
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Sunday, 11 February 2018 06:53 (six years ago) link
red turning indicators on carsnine inch plastic bumpersstick shift on the steering column
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Sunday, 11 February 2018 06:55 (six years ago) link
malt liquorcrack
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Sunday, 11 February 2018 06:56 (six years ago) link
What color are rear turn signals in other countries?!
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Sunday, 11 February 2018 06:57 (six years ago) link
http://historygarage.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/left1.jpg... most of the world
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Sunday, 11 February 2018 07:01 (six years ago) link
also, specifying race on registration forms etc. And statistics broken down by race.
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Sunday, 11 February 2018 07:02 (six years ago) link
I’ll read this tomorrow https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/811115
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Sunday, 11 February 2018 07:08 (six years ago) link
The wrong amount of tax being deducted from your pay check throughout the year, then getting some back or being asked for more at the end of the year.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 11 February 2018 07:39 (six years ago) link
Saying 'how funny' with dead eyes
81. S'mores
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Sunday, 11 February 2018 07:44 (six years ago) link
#3
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 11 February 2018 07:56 (six years ago) link
81.5. “sock” as a verb
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 11 February 2018 07:58 (six years ago) link
d'oh, buried in the fold on zing
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Sunday, 11 February 2018 09:18 (six years ago) link
81. just pouring any old fuckin' amount of booze into a drink at a bar
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Sunday, 11 February 2018 09:19 (six years ago) link
83. “thank you for your service”
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 11 February 2018 09:28 (six years ago) link
Jesus yeah
And making service staff grovelsmile
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Sunday, 11 February 2018 11:03 (six years ago) link
85. pretty darn good craft beer!86. pretty darn good cheeseburgers!
― Shitpost in Opposition (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 11 February 2018 11:13 (six years ago) link
83.5 the fucking loop of audio running all night and day at LAX announcing that they appreciate your service so you can get a free shower and nap if you're a returned serviceperson is absolutely my worst American experience (while waiting from 1am to 8am to be able to leave or shower or nap myself)
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Sunday, 11 February 2018 11:18 (six years ago) link
even above that time a federal employee threatened to shoot me for looking at a piece of public art 1 min after entering the country
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Sunday, 11 February 2018 11:19 (six years ago) link
root beerraccoonsrollerskates
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Sunday, 11 February 2018 11:23 (six years ago) link
90. TSA agents are so terribly friendly (they'll even erotically touch me without having to buy a drink.)
― Shitpost in Opposition (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 11 February 2018 11:24 (six years ago) link
91. Chewing gum92. Chewing tobacco93. Chex mix.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Sunday, 11 February 2018 11:27 (six years ago) link
90. TSA agents are so terribly friendly (they'll even erotically touch me without having to buy a drink.)america’s the only country i’ve ever been to that insists on picking my locks
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 11 February 2018 11:35 (six years ago) link
and i’ve been to fucking china
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 11 February 2018 11:36 (six years ago) link
94: gold medallist snowboarder red gerrard, on the olympics:"I honestly don’t know what the Olympics is. Clearly it’s big, everyone is here."
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 11 February 2018 11:36 (six years ago) link
even above that time a federal employee threatened to shoot me for looking at a piece of public art 1 min after entering the countrythis is turkish armed forces level of batshit crazy
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 11 February 2018 11:37 (six years ago) link
95. Fantasy football.96. Fantasy Island.97. Fantasy by Britney Spears.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Sunday, 11 February 2018 11:38 (six years ago) link
Red Gerrard otm
― "oh no my cheds" man had dark to black packet (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 11 February 2018 11:40 (six years ago) link
98. Patriot Missile.99. Patriot Act.100. Patriot, Indiana.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Sunday, 11 February 2018 11:47 (six years ago) link
Town motto: "The FIRST Refuge of Scoundrels"
― "oh no my cheds" man had dark to black packet (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 11 February 2018 12:12 (six years ago) link
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Sunday, 11 February 2018 06:40 (seven hours ago) Permalink
jad abumrad is lebanese fwiw. Interestingly, so is stereotypically Jewy reality tv star/business guy Marcus Lemonis. Maybe they're a lost tribe.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Sunday, 11 February 2018 14:34 (six years ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, February 11, 2018 1:39 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I believe it's "funny how"
― pplains, Sunday, 11 February 2018 16:02 (six years ago) link
I welcome solidarity with all high-voiced Levantine nerds xp
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Sunday, 11 February 2018 16:03 (six years ago) link
in texas at least I heard more "how fun" (with dead eyes) than "how funny" but yeah
― droit au butt (Euler), Sunday, 11 February 2018 16:28 (six years ago) link
101. Mormons102. Top sheets
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Sunday, 11 February 2018 16:54 (six years ago) link
103. no doy
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 11 February 2018 17:26 (six years ago) link
Top sheets?
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Sunday, 11 February 2018 17:37 (six years ago) link
flat sheets. what real men use
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 11 February 2018 17:50 (six years ago) link
pplains was making a goodfellas joke
Goodfellas Good Humor ice cream (& accompanying vehicles, personnel, etc)Goodman, JohnGoodnight MoonGoodyear Tires
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 11 February 2018 17:54 (six years ago) link
Girls Gone Wild
― sleepingbag, Sunday, 11 February 2018 17:57 (six years ago) link
My second GoodFellas joke in 12 hours!
― pplains, Sunday, 11 February 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link
Pp two times
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Sunday, 11 February 2018 18:15 (six years ago) link
military bases literally all over the fucking world. because, that's why
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 11 February 2018 22:59 (six years ago) link
Girls Gone Wild― sleepingbag, Sunday, February 11, 2018 12:57 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
also, the Bang Bus
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Sunday, 11 February 2018 23:24 (six years ago) link
As opposed to the UK's Jolly Good Trolley
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Sunday, 11 February 2018 23:29 (six years ago) link
do you like american thingswe like all kinds of thingsbut i like american things best
― mookieproof, Sunday, 11 February 2018 23:33 (six years ago) link
how are top sheets American though
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Monday, 12 February 2018 00:25 (six years ago) link
I was given to understand on other internets that they were unheard of in the Commonwealth
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Monday, 12 February 2018 00:26 (six years ago) link
My wife did not grow up in the US and said they didn't use them, just duvets with duvet covers.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 12 February 2018 00:27 (six years ago) link
turnpikes
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Monday, 12 February 2018 02:58 (six years ago) link
idgi, do non-Americans wash their duvet covers every time they change their sheets?
― how to diss a peer completely (unregistered), Monday, 12 February 2018 03:13 (six years ago) link
short answer: no
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Monday, 12 February 2018 04:14 (six years ago) link
lol change sheets, wash what’s on the bed and put it back on the bed
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 12 February 2018 05:27 (six years ago) link
you can bother with multiple sheets if you really really care about bedroom variety
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 12 February 2018 05:28 (six years ago) link
I have slept in beds in Australia and England and France and Norway and Scotland and Finland and New Zealand with top sheets
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Monday, 12 February 2018 06:12 (six years ago) link
I've slept in an Airbnb and a hotel and mostly on a sofa in Canadia but I couldn't swear to the bedding
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Monday, 12 February 2018 06:15 (six years ago) link
corndogschex mixhalf n half tri-tipoutdated plumbingshower valves (seriously i HATE this)
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 February 2018 06:55 (six years ago) link
cool whip
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 12 February 2018 07:00 (six years ago) link
miracle whip
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 February 2018 07:01 (six years ago) link
Garrett's Chicago Mix Popcorn
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 12 February 2018 07:02 (six years ago) link
shower valves (seriously i HATE this)
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, February 12, 2018 1:55 AM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
What do other countries have instead?
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 12 February 2018 07:09 (six years ago) link
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 12 February 2018 18:09 (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Buckets
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 12 February 2018 07:19 (six years ago) link
Manifest DestinyFruit Roll Ups.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Monday, 12 February 2018 07:22 (six years ago) link
Reese's peanut butter cupspeanut butter m&mspeanut butter and jellypeanut butter an marshmallow fluff
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 12 February 2018 07:23 (six years ago) link
actually I'm not sure what you mean by a shower valve, do you mean the fact that there is a single control for both pressure and temp?
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 12 February 2018 07:24 (six years ago) link
shower valves
is this a home-owner thing or a UI thing?
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Monday, 12 February 2018 07:26 (six years ago) link
x-post
that reminds me though,
104. toilets that are so full of water and also weirdly short that you have to lower yourself carefully, tensing your quads as you pause several times a second, calculating whether it's going to be safe to sit down or you'll have to fish your dong out of the way and hold it someway out of the drink for the duration
especially bad if the loo is so small that [deleted for propriety]
only an east coast problem ime but still American
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Monday, 12 February 2018 07:30 (six years ago) link
Tootsie rollCalifornia RollRoller DiscoOperation Rolling Thunder
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Monday, 12 February 2018 07:33 (six years ago) link
shower valves: in bathtub showersyou have to switch the water between the shower & the bathtub. and there’s only one set of controls for both. ie raise a lever on the bathtub faucet that switches the water to the shower & then turn on the showerit’s weird & silly to me
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 February 2018 07:40 (six years ago) link
I think I've seen that in other continents too
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Monday, 12 February 2018 07:43 (six years ago) link
it's just a "some baths have this, some baths don't" thing. like one spout or two.
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Monday, 12 February 2018 07:44 (six years ago) link
not only an east coast problem, they are like that in LA as well
― Colonel Poo, Monday, 12 February 2018 07:48 (six years ago) link
maybe not the weirdly short thing, but definitely the so full of water it looks like the toilet's blocked thing
― Colonel Poo, Monday, 12 February 2018 07:51 (six years ago) link
I also hate overly full toilets, seems so wasteful
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 12 February 2018 07:52 (six years ago) link
it is weird crapping into a swimming pool, but it’s cleaner in a lot of ways
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 12 February 2018 07:54 (six years ago) link
I've pooped in LA a lot, and only EXCEEDINGLY RARELY, if at all, had to manually cradle my dick or rest it on the seat to avoid reverse-periscoping
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Monday, 12 February 2018 09:01 (six years ago) link
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Monday, 12 February 2018 09:15 (six years ago) link
i've once had this problem on the west coast! (while exceedingly jetlagged and it was one of the most scary moments ever)
― Shitpost in Opposition (King Boy Pato), Monday, 12 February 2018 10:17 (six years ago) link
yeah i’m forever having to rest my giant plonker on things
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 12 February 2018 12:09 (six years ago) link
American things?
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 12 February 2018 12:14 (six years ago) link
-sensible, compact plonkers that don't dangle into the toilet water
― how to diss a peer completely (unregistered), Monday, 12 February 2018 12:29 (six years ago) link
I'm not bragging but mine has been known to drag across the poop shelf
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Monday, 12 February 2018 12:40 (six years ago) link
chimes with what I've heard
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 February 2018 12:57 (six years ago) link
Heh, listen to all these forigeners who sit down to poop.
― pplains, Monday, 12 February 2018 14:01 (six years ago) link
Oh I didn't say that
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Monday, 12 February 2018 14:48 (six years ago) link
900 year old flight attendants
― Shitpost in Opposition (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 11:36 (six years ago) link
Scriptures in yr airplane lunch basket.
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 16:15 (six years ago) link
Everything from the tiniest village and hamlet upwards calling itself a city.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 16:19 (six years ago) link
one doesn't build villages and hamlets on rock 'n' roll
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 16:26 (six years ago) link
It takes a city
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 16:27 (six years ago) link
i actually searched for threads where i could put this but really it comes down to an "only in america" thing
http://rate-driver.com
― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 20:28 (six years ago) link
Ha, holy shit, ∞. That site is great!
https://i.imgur.com/Jkb7jTa.png
― pplains, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 20:34 (six years ago) link
Scriptures on yr fast food packaging.
― Shitpost in Opposition (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 15 February 2018 21:14 (six years ago) link
Chick tracts
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Thursday, 15 February 2018 21:20 (six years ago) link
Chick-Fil-A tracts
― how to diss a peer completely (unregistered), Thursday, 15 February 2018 21:30 (six years ago) link
NORAID
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 February 2018 21:34 (six years ago) link
freedom
― brimstead, Thursday, 15 February 2018 21:35 (six years ago) link
about 90% of the menu at the cheesecake factory is dedicated to non-cheesecake items
what kinda factory is this
― Shitpost in Opposition (King Boy Pato), Friday, 16 February 2018 09:42 (six years ago) link
btw I have a work trip to the usa in just over a month, excited for american things tbh
― Shitpost in Opposition (King Boy Pato), Friday, 16 February 2018 09:43 (six years ago) link
XP gotta diversify man
― rum dmc (darraghmac), Friday, 16 February 2018 09:47 (six years ago) link
You forget what 90% of the C+C Music Factory sounded like.
― pplains, Friday, 16 February 2018 14:29 (six years ago) link
I ate at Cheesecake factory once, it's not a menu it's a god damn novel!!!!
― frogbs, Friday, 16 February 2018 14:36 (six years ago) link
^^^ I hear that!!!!!
― Shitpost in Opposition (King Boy Pato), Friday, 16 February 2018 23:13 (six years ago) link
We used to make cheesecake in this country
― Number None, Friday, 16 February 2018 23:14 (six years ago) link
making cheesecake great again
― Shitpost in Opposition (King Boy Pato), Friday, 16 February 2018 23:19 (six years ago) link
btw the most american thing is... drip coffee
― Shitpost in Opposition (King Boy Pato), Friday, 16 February 2018 23:26 (six years ago) link
the brown bean sludge
― Shitpost in Opposition (King Boy Pato), Friday, 16 February 2018 23:27 (six years ago) link
Now everyone got his hand in the other guys hot pockets
― rum dmc (darraghmac), Friday, 16 February 2018 23:37 (six years ago) link
Glory
― brimstead, Friday, 16 February 2018 23:43 (six years ago) link
Hole
― F# A# (∞), Saturday, 17 February 2018 01:27 (six years ago) link
^^ both american things
― Men's Scarehouse - "You're gonna like the way you're shook." (m bison), Saturday, 17 February 2018 01:44 (six years ago) link
3 in 1
― F# A# (∞), Saturday, 17 February 2018 03:54 (six years ago) link
“college” being a thing you go to after school, not during it
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 17 February 2018 06:09 (six years ago) link
"college" being a thing were you play sports more than learn at a higher level
― Shitpost in Opposition (King Boy Pato), Saturday, 17 February 2018 06:34 (six years ago) link
and wear aforementioned jumpers with one giant letter on them
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 17 February 2018 06:42 (six years ago) link
School/college sports teams being somehow of interest to more than just the people in the teams.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Saturday, 17 February 2018 07:52 (six years ago) link
The Grateful Dead.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Saturday, 17 February 2018 19:55 (six years ago) link
sophomorefreshman
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 17 February 2018 21:27 (six years ago) link
^^^^^^so many chinese people tell me “i’m a sophomore!” like i’m supposed to know what the fuck that means
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 17 February 2018 21:31 (six years ago) link
what do y'all say, i'm a year elevensie stoody woozent?
― sleepingbag, Saturday, 17 February 2018 21:32 (six years ago) link
“i started uni this year” does the job
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 17 February 2018 21:33 (six years ago) link
but what ARE you
― sleepingbag, Saturday, 17 February 2018 21:33 (six years ago) link
student
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 17 February 2018 21:34 (six years ago) link
ah
― sleepingbag, Saturday, 17 February 2018 21:34 (six years ago) link
is america the only place where ppl in highschool & college have so many NAMES for what they are?junior senior freshman sophomorei feel like everywhere else is ok with saying what year level they’re in
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 17 February 2018 21:56 (six years ago) link
i’m a deputy semaphore bleachman
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 17 February 2018 22:07 (six years ago) link
That reminds me, wtf is or are bleachers?
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Saturday, 17 February 2018 22:14 (six years ago) link
Them seats at their training pitches
― rum dmc (darraghmac), Saturday, 17 February 2018 22:18 (six years ago) link
http://www.nyloungedecor.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/bleachers-seating-for-rent-2-catalog.jpg
― Men's Scarehouse - "You're gonna like the way you're shook." (m bison), Saturday, 17 February 2018 22:20 (six years ago) link
where asses go to die
asses
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 17 February 2018 22:22 (six years ago) link
i fell in love with american thingsi could be happythe rest of my lifewith american things
― mookieproof, Saturday, 17 February 2018 22:28 (six years ago) link
What if it takes you a year and a half to get your first year hours in? You can't be a "first-year" student if you've been at college for two years.
― pplains, Saturday, 17 February 2018 22:55 (six years ago) link
you can if you're doing all first-year subjects
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 17 February 2018 23:04 (six years ago) link
You're a first year if you're doing first year
XP see
― rum dmc (darraghmac), Saturday, 17 February 2018 23:05 (six years ago) link
it's like when someone is born on Feb 29 and they can celebrate their 2nd birthday when they're 6 years old.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 17 February 2018 23:06 (six years ago) link
make that 8 years old. this math stuff is hard.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 17 February 2018 23:07 (six years ago) link
They'd be a real asshole of an 8 year old but that in itself is not uncommon I spose
― rum dmc (darraghmac), Saturday, 17 February 2018 23:07 (six years ago) link
Also there's none of this "getting the hours in", the uni chucks all the students out by May so they can rent out the facilities to businesses until October
― Big Ched aka The Cheesedriver (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 February 2018 23:09 (six years ago) link
― pplains, Sunday, 18 February 2018 09:55 (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
also, iirc there's no single word in american that covers this scenario anyway. i've never heard of anyone who's still doing first-year subjects in their second year of enrolment saying e.g. "i'm a trinitron"
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 17 February 2018 23:15 (six years ago) link
Third trimester eh
― rum dmc (darraghmac), Saturday, 17 February 2018 23:16 (six years ago) link
the american terms refer to years spent there, not level of courses taken
― mookieproof, Saturday, 17 February 2018 23:16 (six years ago) link
Ya it's a bad term
― rum dmc (darraghmac), Saturday, 17 February 2018 23:17 (six years ago) link
seems odd to measure progress by how many years you've been on the campus, not how much of the course you've completed
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 17 February 2018 23:18 (six years ago) link
I mean, you all are the ones who would break an ankle by jumping out of a "first" story window, not me.
― pplains, Saturday, 17 February 2018 23:21 (six years ago) link
storey
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 17 February 2018 23:21 (six years ago) link
Dilly Dilly
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Saturday, 17 February 2018 23:31 (six years ago) link
fetishization of Nutella and Sriracha
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Saturday, 17 February 2018 23:32 (six years ago) link
French are mental for nutella
― rum dmc (darraghmac), Saturday, 17 February 2018 23:33 (six years ago) link
Dilly bars
― F# A# (∞), Saturday, 17 February 2018 23:36 (six years ago) link
"what's the dealio"
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Saturday, 17 February 2018 23:37 (six years ago) link
Foolio
― F# A# (∞), Saturday, 17 February 2018 23:47 (six years ago) link
Hammertime
― calstars, Saturday, 17 February 2018 23:53 (six years ago) link
The following names:SkipChipTipperBuffy
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Sunday, 18 February 2018 00:40 (six years ago) link
Inability to say the word 'mirror'.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 18 February 2018 00:55 (six years ago) link
Pronouncing the name Cecil as Cee-cil, thus rendering a silly name even sillier.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 18 February 2018 00:58 (six years ago) link
Inability to say the word 'mirror'.also, ‘warwick’
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 18 February 2018 01:02 (six years ago) link
for a limited time only, great deals on Niss-arn automobiles
― Shitpost in Opposition (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 18 February 2018 01:04 (six years ago) link
the way australians say ‘nissan’ is the worst imo
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 18 February 2018 01:18 (six years ago) link
I don’t know how you personally say nissan but north americans say it very similar to its original JapaneseSame with Subaru
― F# A# (∞), Sunday, 18 February 2018 01:23 (six years ago) link
Do Australians say s’-BAY-roo or something?
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Sunday, 18 February 2018 01:29 (six years ago) link
I don’t know how you personally say nissan but north americans say it very similar to its original JapaneseSame with Subaruyeah that’s how i understood it. we say ‘NISS-uhn’ and ‘SOO-buh-ROO’
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 18 February 2018 01:41 (six years ago) link
acetaminophen
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Sunday, 18 February 2018 03:01 (six years ago) link
synthetic marijuana that makes you run around naked in traffic
105. Pronouncing the name Cecil as Cee-cil, thus rendering a silly name even sillier.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, February 18, 2018 11:58 AM (three hours ago)
106. also, ‘warwick’
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, February 18, 2018 12:02 PM
107. calling people named Craig by the non-existent name Kregg.
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Sunday, 18 February 2018 04:05 (six years ago) link
108. Puerto Rico :(
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 18 February 2018 04:27 (six years ago) link
109. Poncy faux-French pronunciations of the names Gerard and Bernard.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 18 February 2018 09:55 (six years ago) link
co-ed, presumably meaning 'female'?also in weird name pronunciation: Graham
― kinder, Sunday, 18 February 2018 10:44 (six years ago) link
“Gram”
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Monday, 19 February 2018 03:11 (six years ago) link
how the hell do yall say it?
― NBA YoungBoy named Rocky Raccoon (m bison), Monday, 19 February 2018 03:24 (six years ago) link
“graham”
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 19 February 2018 03:52 (six years ago) link
is that GRAY-HAMorGRUH-HUMorguh *trill* ah *glottal catch* umorGRIMMINY GROOor what come on
― NBA YoungBoy named Rocky Raccoon (m bison), Monday, 19 February 2018 03:55 (six years ago) link
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Monday, 19 February 2018 04:12 (six years ago) link
gray-um
― new noise, Monday, 19 February 2018 04:52 (six years ago) link
just think of how “graeme” is pronounced, it’s the same
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 19 February 2018 04:53 (six years ago) link
greemee
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 February 2018 04:55 (six years ago) link
accents shouldn't really count though
there are regional differences even within england and not to mention the uk
i always thought it was funny how non-rhotic dialects insert an /r/ sound between vowels (when there is no letter r of course)
some good ones i just remembered:
nonsensical use of semesterjunior college
darn i forgot the other one
― F# A# (∞), Monday, 19 February 2018 04:55 (six years ago) link
Nonsensical use of “semester” is an English thing we inherited iirc
― El Tomboto, Monday, 19 February 2018 05:43 (six years ago) link
graham crackers
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 19 February 2018 05:45 (six years ago) link
gray-ham cray-koars
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 19 February 2018 05:49 (six years ago) link
xxp
not sure i'm understanding
i thought most uk universities used terms
― F# A# (∞), Monday, 19 February 2018 05:50 (six years ago) link
gram crack whores
― F# A# (∞), Monday, 19 February 2018 05:51 (six years ago) link
Nevermind, I got it confused with the three halves of the Eton school year
― El Tomboto, Monday, 19 February 2018 06:01 (six years ago) link
In the UK they have something called “michaelmas”
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Monday, 19 February 2018 06:05 (six years ago) link
not since yewtree
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 19 February 2018 06:10 (six years ago) link
In addition to the ‘Michaelmas term’ we have the ‘Hilary term’ which iirc the US also missed out on.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Monday, 19 February 2018 07:07 (six years ago) link
an English thing we inherited
Also true of sophomore, junior, etc.
― persona non gratin (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 19 February 2018 08:33 (six years ago) link
month/day/year
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 25 February 2018 05:19 (six years ago) link
peanuts in all the candy
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Sunday, 25 February 2018 06:55 (six years ago) link
peanut butter in all the candy
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 February 2018 07:33 (six years ago) link
(which I love btw)
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 February 2018 07:34 (six years ago) link
the one area in which usa doesn’t have enough cultural influence
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 25 February 2018 07:45 (six years ago) link
can't believe it took this long for month / day / year to come up, it's so dumbon zing so can't ctrl +f for fahrenheit
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Sunday, 25 February 2018 07:50 (six years ago) link
a) peanuts are in barely any of America's mostly-terrible candyb) peanut butter NEVER is, only a weird gritty peanut-flavoured sugar sludge, occasionally
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Sunday, 25 February 2018 07:52 (six years ago) link
is your pedantry a bug or a feature, i cant decide
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 February 2018 08:04 (six years ago) link
Sem-eye finals of world's championships of sports - the score, five hundred twenty to three hundred four.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 25 February 2018 08:10 (six years ago) link
I wish actual peanut butter was in this stuff though!
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Sunday, 25 February 2018 08:10 (six years ago) link
xpost by 15 seconds
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Sunday, 25 February 2018 08:11 (six years ago) link
Veg it's terrifying how much sugar or corn syrup is in almost everything here, and how little food content is in so many food items
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Sunday, 25 February 2018 08:12 (six years ago) link
(xp) he carried an assist and rushed one hundred two yards in 32.7 seconds.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 25 February 2018 08:16 (six years ago) link
Incomprehensible sports with incomprehensible jargon, is what I'm trying to say. Incomprehensible jargon in general, in fact.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 25 February 2018 08:18 (six years ago) link
xpost nah it is true that corn syrup is in everything, yr not wrongmaybe we cracked it: corn syrup is the most american thing
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 February 2018 08:28 (six years ago) link
Bringing u haribo when u request fruit
― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Sunday, 25 February 2018 10:31 (six years ago) link
even the bread had a buttload of sugar
― milquetoast malone (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 25 February 2018 11:14 (six years ago) link
the cult of 'mexican coke' and its sugar
― milquetoast malone (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 25 February 2018 11:15 (six years ago) link
Space cowboys
― bald butte (∞), Sunday, 25 February 2018 11:17 (six years ago) link
Had my first mexican coke yesterday twas like a melted Mr freeze
― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Sunday, 25 February 2018 11:22 (six years ago) link
feisty, flat, coke
― milquetoast malone (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 25 February 2018 11:28 (six years ago) link
antipodeans loving Reese’s cups when you guys have Tim Tams made not a lot of sense to me either.lol @ Tom D. iirc the UK is the home of cricket, curling, golf and rugby. So back atcha.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 25 February 2018 13:25 (six years ago) link
Arguing politics with their relatives on FB
― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Sunday, 25 February 2018 16:46 (six years ago) link
Or indeed anybody
Maybe if y'all ate a little more sugar, you'd act a little more sweeter like us.
― pplains, Sunday, 25 February 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link
Month/Day/Year is the worst thing about America, I refuse to use any date format anymore other than YYYY-MM-DD
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Sunday, 25 February 2018 17:04 (six years ago) link
month day year is so obviously insane and stupid that it's kind of awesome
― scotti pruitti (wins), Sunday, 25 February 2018 17:05 (six years ago) link
Fahrenheit is a better temperature scale for the weather than Celsius though.But what we really need is a temperature scale for the weather where freezing is 0 and 95F is, like, 9, so the temperature outside is just one digit
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Sunday, 25 February 2018 17:07 (six years ago) link
Month/Day/Year is like Minutes/Seconds/Hours, ie insane.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 25 February 2018 17:09 (six years ago) link
...and therefore awesome?
― scotti pruitti (wins), Sunday, 25 February 2018 17:10 (six years ago) link
True tbh
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 25 February 2018 17:10 (six years ago) link
You haven’t lived until you’ve had to sit down with a dataset containing strings in a mix of MMDDYY and YYMMDD format and have to somehow disambiguate which is which
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Sunday, 25 February 2018 17:13 (six years ago) link
Some large % of American GDP is expended on reconciling dates
Fahrenheit is like pinball machines that score in the eleventy-millions just for the sake of having big numbersantipodeans loving Reese’s cups when you guys have Tim Tams made not a lot of sense to me either.Reese's cups are bad and gross. Most American chocolate is bad, but the "chocolate" in Reese's is the orange plastic cheese slice of American chocolate
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Sunday, 25 February 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link
110. Orange plastic "cheese" slices
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Sunday, 25 February 2018 17:19 (six years ago) link
sic and silby really getting controversial up in here
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 25 February 2018 17:23 (six years ago) link
I had to do something like that last week, importing data from an old website we are revamping, but with MMDDYY and DDMMYY. Whoever decided to make the date fields strings should be harshly punished. In the end I just read them all as DDMMYY unless that threw an error then tried MMDDYY. Thing is this is a UK-only system so what kind of disgusting savage was putting in MMDDYY anyway. Never mind the entries that were 01 Janurary or 5 Feburrrarrary.
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 25 February 2018 17:24 (six years ago) link
Oh my god that’s some amateur hour database management right there
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Sunday, 25 February 2018 17:27 (six years ago) link
Tell me about it. Then they had address, phone and email all in one text column. I wrote a parser for that and had to handle about 20 different ways of prefixing a telephone number. T., T:, Te:, Tel:, P:, Ph:, etc etc ad nauseam.
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 25 February 2018 18:22 (six years ago) link
month date year is truly nonsensicalreeses peanut butter cups are not my favorite, they are kinda gross tbh i can only eat 1 or 2
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 February 2018 18:24 (six years ago) link
Not in the produce section. That's where all the action is.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 25 February 2018 19:00 (six years ago) link
Now listen, I'm fine with all you Cape people shuffling around in this safe place, registering your discomforts with some of the oddities of American culture like peanut butter or too many stripes on a flag.
But come on. My man sic:
Fahrenheit is like pinball machines that score in the eleventy-millions just for the sake of having big numbers
Here's what you get when you watch the Australian weather report, all ten seconds of it: "Today, it was 23. Tonight, it will be 18. Tomorrow, looking at a high of 23." It's all too broad and general! Fahrenheit lets you denote more exact measurements of temperature. I mean, you all say the average human body temperature is "37" whatever that means. We say 98.6. And where 99 is a mild fever and 97.5 means your thermometer isn't working right, that's a big deal!
And here's something: for those exact reasons, I'm all in favor of the U.S. using kilometers instead of miles. I've already mentioned somewhere on this board how Missouri uses mile-markers for every two-tenths of a mile. Being able to say "my car's broken down at KM 82.5" would be much more accurate than just saying "Mile Marker #51".
We're not trying to run up the score with hot, hot days of 108º. We're just being very, very specific!
― pplains, Sunday, 25 February 2018 20:45 (six years ago) link
otm
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Sunday, 25 February 2018 21:04 (six years ago) link
I think of low temperatures in centigrade and high temperatures in Fahrenheit. Or I used to. After Brexit it will all be Fahrenheit.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 25 February 2018 21:15 (six years ago) link
100 boils, zero freezes, 23 is nice. Easy!
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Sunday, 25 February 2018 21:16 (six years ago) link
that it was minus two in Seattle yesterday is more impressive than saying it was twenty-eight point four
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Sunday, 25 February 2018 21:18 (six years ago) link
how Missouri uses mile-markers for every two-tenths of a mile.
in a lot of places it's every one-tenth. i won't stop until every highway is demarcated in one inch increments.
― i remember the corned beef of my childhood (Karl Malone), Sunday, 25 February 2018 21:21 (six years ago) link
(xp) Exactly!
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 25 February 2018 21:22 (six years ago) link
how a TV-announced city-wide temperature actually feels is so dependent on where you are, how the wind is, what the clouds are doing, whether a cat is sitting on you etc etc, that the supposed precision of Fahrenheit is irrelevant http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-colbert.gif
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Sunday, 25 February 2018 21:27 (six years ago) link
the supposed precision of Fahrenheit Also pretty sure that it is possible to tell whether someone has a mild fever using a digital thermometer in *checks* basically every country in the world
― scotti pruitti (wins), Sunday, 25 February 2018 21:38 (six years ago) link
Jesus fuck please get this argument off of ILX and back on whichever tumblr / subreddit it came from
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 25 February 2018 21:41 (six years ago) link
Probably the one called "American things" tbrr
― scotti pruitti (wins), Sunday, 25 February 2018 21:43 (six years ago) link
Why not just have it where 0 is freezing and 10 is boiling. Then you can just say, "Oh, it's nice today. It's only 2. Hope it doesn't get all the way up to 3!"
― pplains, Sunday, 25 February 2018 21:47 (six years ago) link
Here's what you get when you watch the Australianworldweather report, all ten seconds of it: "Today, it was 23. Tonight, it will be 18. Tomorrow, looking at a high of 23." It's all too broad and general!but the difference between 18 and 23 isn’t massive. it’s not even a layer of clothing. also as sic said there’s so many other factors (humidity being a huge one) that being vague about the number for a forecast (which turns out to be wrong anyway) is fine. the difference between 22 and 23 isn’t perceptible at all, so i don’t know why anyone who’s not a scientist needs to distinguish between 68 and 69.Fahrenheit lets you denote more exact measurements of temperature. I mean, you all say the average human body temperature is "37" whatever that means.it means 37.0We say 98.6. And where 99 is a mild fever and 97.5 means your thermometer isn't working right, that's a big deal!oh so that just means you need to buy a celsius thermometer
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 25 February 2018 21:52 (six years ago) link
it's a 0-100 scale where 0 is "about as cold as it ever gets" and 100 is "about as hot as it ever gets", that seems like a pretty good scale for describing the weather to me...
― Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Sunday, 25 February 2018 22:20 (six years ago) link
That's wildly inaccurate but I'm giving you benefit of the shorthand doubt
― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Sunday, 25 February 2018 22:21 (six years ago) link
Humidex for the warm monthsWind chill for the cold months
― bald butte (∞), Sunday, 25 February 2018 22:34 (six years ago) link
universal scale:nonsensefreezingcold as fuckcoldcoolnicebit warmkinda hotbloody hotfucking hotnonsense
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 February 2018 22:46 (six years ago) link
American cheesestring cheeseVelveetagovernment cheeseCheez WhizPhilly cheesesteak
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Sunday, 25 February 2018 23:12 (six years ago) link
And the best worst cheese of all time, provel
― i remember the corned beef of my childhood (Karl Malone), Sunday, 25 February 2018 23:19 (six years ago) link
"stop talking about American things on the American things thread" is a pretty fun example of the totalitarian nature of American cultural entitledness, good job Tombot
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Sunday, 25 February 2018 23:54 (six years ago) link
wow just further proof of american thing #1: america is #1
― NBA YoungBoy named Rocky Raccoon (m bison), Sunday, 25 February 2018 23:59 (six years ago) link
jk our country is terrible
*takes roll call of Celsius nations who have planted their flag on the moon*
― El Tomboto, Monday, 26 February 2018 00:10 (six years ago) link
measuring and showing your dick to see whose is bigger
― bald butte (∞), Monday, 26 February 2018 00:13 (six years ago) link
Yes we definitely invented that
― El Tomboto, Monday, 26 February 2018 00:54 (six years ago) link
You invented measuring it in Fahrenheit
― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Monday, 26 February 2018 00:56 (six years ago) link
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 26 February 2018 01:01 (six years ago) link
*counts number of higgs bosuns in his penis*
― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Monday, 26 February 2018 01:03 (six years ago) link
Higgs boatswains?!?!
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Monday, 26 February 2018 01:05 (six years ago) link
What a disaster for European science and on a personal level my penis, trevor
― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Monday, 26 February 2018 01:08 (six years ago) link
Should a Boatswain's Mate meet eligibility requirements, he can elect to become an SO (formerly SEAL), SB (formerly SWCC), ND (Navy Diver), or EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician).
― El Tomboto, Monday, 26 February 2018 01:08 (six years ago) link
Clarification:
The construction " , Trevor" at the end of a sentence is a reference to English classic colour commentary in football.
My penis is not named Trevor.
― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Monday, 26 February 2018 01:10 (six years ago) link
which begs the question
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 26 February 2018 01:16 (six years ago) link
If you're not close enough to read the name on the collar then you can safely presume you were not meant to know
― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Monday, 26 February 2018 01:21 (six years ago) link
It's "Kielbacca" isn't it
― El Tomboto, Monday, 26 February 2018 02:26 (six years ago) link
Lug Lámfada
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Monday, 26 February 2018 03:20 (six years ago) link
Log Lambada
― bald butte (∞), Monday, 26 February 2018 03:35 (six years ago) link
month date year is truly nonsensical
ok i'm not saying you have to like it or agree with it but there is a logic. if someone asks you a date, like, what's your birthday, a very common way to say it is "august twelfth, 1979" (if that is in fact your birthday) i.e. MM DD YYYY
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 26 February 2018 10:12 (six years ago) link
"when's your birthday?"
"december second"
"you're insane and stupid"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 26 February 2018 10:13 (six years ago) link
But I suspect folks from DD MM YY areas would be more likely to say 'twelfth of August, 1979'.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Monday, 26 February 2018 10:14 (six years ago) link
Well, it makes slightly more sense than Australians putting wickets before runs in a cricket score - or should I save that for an Australian Things thread?
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 26 February 2018 10:16 (six years ago) link
"remember, remembith, november fifth!"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 26 February 2018 10:27 (six years ago) link
Until Never Twelfth, and that's a long long time.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 26 February 2018 10:29 (six years ago) link
There is nothing logical about entering data for processing by aping verbal tics!
― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Monday, 26 February 2018 10:36 (six years ago) link
ok i'm not saying you have to like it or agree with it but there is a logic. if someone asks you a date, like, what's your birthday, a very common way to say it is "august twelfth, 1979" (if that is in fact your birthday) i.e. MM DD YYYY“what time were you born?”“four pm and thirteen seconds and twenty eight minutes”
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 26 February 2018 10:43 (six years ago) link
wickets before runs is much more logical, I won't hear of this!!!!
― milquetoast malone (King Boy Pato), Monday, 26 February 2018 10:44 (six years ago) link
Thing is people do say "ten past eleven" but minute-hour-second would still be dumb
― scotti pruitti (wins), Monday, 26 February 2018 10:46 (six years ago) link
these things that no one does would in fact be pretty dumb yes
i am currently agnostic on the wicket issue but am keen to find a way of taking sides
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 26 February 2018 10:47 (six years ago) link
It would be if the score was being given for the fielding side.(xxp)
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 26 February 2018 10:48 (six years ago) link
Nobody does minute-hour-second for the exact same reason that nobody does month-day-year!
― scotti pruitti (wins), Monday, 26 February 2018 10:48 (six years ago) link
look at the thread title
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 26 February 2018 10:49 (six years ago) link
Yeah America and the Philippines and nobody else in the entire world, for a reason
― scotti pruitti (wins), Monday, 26 February 2018 10:50 (six years ago) link
how do britishes say dates then ? Twenty five October or Twenty fifth October or twenty fifth OF October or twenty something else ?
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 26 February 2018 11:16 (six years ago) link
britishesworld
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 26 February 2018 11:20 (six years ago) link
the correct form is "25 10 17" (or whatever the year might be)
anything that takes longer to say than that is time-wasting and rude iirc
― mark s, Monday, 26 February 2018 12:03 (six years ago) link
nobody appreciated my "taking sides" cricket joke ;_;which i didn't realise I'd made tbf
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 26 February 2018 12:21 (six years ago) link
Id imagine you won't be alone in that
― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Monday, 26 February 2018 12:23 (six years ago) link
lol 5 Live here i come
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 26 February 2018 12:24 (six years ago) link
/britishes/world
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 26 February 2018 13:43 (six years ago) link
This does not explain why anyone would enter dates into a database in an illogical fashion
― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Monday, 26 February 2018 13:46 (six years ago) link
Usually ‘the 25th of October ‘ but increasingly in written communication ‘25 October‘. Xp
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Monday, 26 February 2018 13:47 (six years ago) link
8 Ventôse CCXXVI
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 26 February 2018 13:49 (six years ago) link
as an activist sub-editor i remove those "ths" "nds" and "sts" as fast as anyone can write them
if they start to say them in conversation i clap my hand over their mouths and rabbitpunch them, it's the only way they'll learn
― mark s, Monday, 26 February 2018 13:52 (six years ago) link
In Spanish it am pretty sure it’d be ungrammatical to speak anything other than eg “el tres de mayo, mil ochociento y ocho”
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Monday, 26 February 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link
English speaking world maybe but sure, how do you britishers say datesFP'd you for this
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Monday, 26 February 2018 19:21 (six years ago) link
blood sausaged
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 26 February 2018 19:32 (six years ago) link
didn't actually FP you before, have done so now for doubling down on this shocking racism
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Monday, 26 February 2018 19:34 (six years ago) link
abreuve nos sillons
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 26 February 2018 19:35 (six years ago) link
it throws me when every food item that goes between two other food items is collectively called a sandwich, including burgers, french sticks and baps
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 06:08 (six years ago) link
and the kfc double down, which frankly is genius
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 06:09 (six years ago) link
Americans are preoccupied to the point of derangement with the ontology and, indeed, teleology of sandwiches
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 06:27 (six years ago) link
Are breakfast sandwiches an American thing? They surely would never be invented anywhere that already has sausage rolls
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 06:29 (six years ago) link
i don’t know what constitutes a breakfast sandwich in america, but we do indeed have sandwiches which are specifically for breakfast (bacon, eggs &c.)
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 06:42 (six years ago) link
....silby do you kno what a sausage roll is for real
it might be much better than you imagine
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 08:15 (six years ago) link
ooh that reminds me. breakfast tacos are definitely an American thing
― NBA YoungBoy named Rocky Raccoon (m bison), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 11:40 (six years ago) link
You Have Been Yellow Carded By a Moderator: cool it on the date racism, champ
this is the best
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 13:02 (six years ago) link
....silby do you kno what a sausage roll is for realit might be much better than you imagine
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 15:13 (six years ago) link
I googled for photos of the sausage rolls at the bakery near my old house and found an internetful of people trying to recreate them at home
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 19:22 (six years ago) link
important to note that sausage rolls and flavoured milk is the breakfast of choice for the australian tradie (working man)
(their selection ain't as gourmet as the wonders from bourke street bakery but)
― milquetoast malone (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 20:31 (six years ago) link
there's a bourke street bakery?
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 20:37 (six years ago) link
click the link
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 20:52 (six years ago) link
(there are now eleven!!1 locations, only one is on Bourke St)
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 20:54 (six years ago) link
properly hilarious since the only bakeries i know of on bourke street are kenny’s and bread top, the latter of which puts a sausage in a roll but has somehow created an entirely unique monster
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 21:05 (six years ago) link
afaik the Bourke St in Sydney is a couple of years older than the Melbourne one, though they were both named for the NSW governor of the time
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 22:24 (six years ago) link
Bourke StSydneyohhhhh
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 22:29 (six years ago) link
Check thread title
― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 22:35 (six years ago) link
check borad
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 22:49 (six years ago) link
an American brought saus rolls up, we're okay
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 22:54 (six years ago) link
my local bourke street bakery is 550 meters away from bourke street
― milquetoast malone (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 11:01 (six years ago) link
that's 600 yards you heathens
back to american things: garlic fries! they are great
― milquetoast malone (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 11:04 (six years ago) link
Bullying
― Bully Corgan (darraghmac), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 12:36 (six years ago) link
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 12:36 (six years ago) link
denied - Americans have no idea what to do with pumpkins.
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 18:53 (six years ago) link
Objection overruled - Americans have no idea what to do with Trump. And yet he's yours. Maybe smash 'im?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 19:34 (six years ago) link
who are you talking to?
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 20:17 (six years ago) link
http://application.denofgeek.com/pics/film/list/adlib.td.jpg
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 20:22 (six years ago) link
Who knows what to do with pumpkins?
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 21:17 (six years ago) link
you can’t even eat them because they’re shit
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 21:37 (six years ago) link
i eat sugar pumpkins
― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 21:53 (six years ago) link
my wife roasts the seeds after carving them for halloween but the rest gets chucked out. one of my cats will sometimes eat the pulp but other years isn't interested at all. he's obviously a pumpkin connoisseur.
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 22:25 (six years ago) link
My dog ate one I'd carved once.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Thursday, 1 March 2018 02:47 (six years ago) link
These are the best pumpkinshttps://www.rareseeds.com/winter-luxury-pie-pumpkin/
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Thursday, 1 March 2018 02:52 (six years ago) link
jelly
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 2 March 2018 00:59 (six years ago) link
Referring to women as 'guys'.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Friday, 2 March 2018 02:03 (six years ago) link
I worked with electronic hardware and software engineers for a decade. They called electronic components and software modules "guys". I have little doubt that civil engineers call the high tensile strength fasteners in highway bridges and ten story steel skeleton buildings "guys".
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 2 March 2018 03:30 (six years ago) link
111. levi's
― scoff walker (diamonddave85), Friday, 2 March 2018 03:50 (six years ago) link
called matthew's now iirc
― NBA YoungBoy named Rocky Raccoon (m bison), Friday, 2 March 2018 04:30 (six years ago) link
112. bible jokes
113. Baby showers.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Monday, 5 March 2018 19:11 (six years ago) link
^^ Murican things that really caught on elsewhere iirc
― Google Atheist (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 5 March 2018 19:13 (six years ago) link
114. hard shell taco night!
― surm, Monday, 5 March 2018 20:37 (six years ago) link
Grumble. Have to use an API (served by a British company!) and the fucking wankers are using US date formats. WTF is wrong with these people. Anyone not using YYYY-MM-DD to represent date values in datasets should be sent to the gulag.
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 15:52 (six years ago) link
cosine
― valorous wokelord (silby), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 16:10 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/VxXSKhU.png
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 16:27 (six years ago) link
Cool Whip
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 08:45 (six years ago) link
The belief that 7 vacation days and 3 sick days a year is not only reasonable but very generous.
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 08:46 (six years ago) link
nilla wafers for dipping in the cool whip
― estela, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 08:48 (six years ago) link
“a meet cute”
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 09:36 (six years ago) link
yeah i really can't get my head around how little time off americans get
my public sector job here in the uk gives me 31 holiday days plus public holidays time off between xmas and new year ffs
― War, Famine, Pestilence, Death, Umami (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 14:06 (six years ago) link
public holidays and time off, that should say
― War, Famine, Pestilence, Death, Umami (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 14:07 (six years ago) link
Flexidays?
― things you looked shockingly old when you wore (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 14:18 (six years ago) link
don't mind if i do, cheers
― War, Famine, Pestilence, Death, Umami (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 14:19 (six years ago) link
Jaysus that's better than us
Wait how many flexidays
― things you looked shockingly old when you wore (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 14:20 (six years ago) link
often thought that the US approach to acceptable amounts of paid leave points to the real sickness at the heart of the country
― Under the influence of the Ranters (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 14:24 (six years ago) link
it's not a set number of flexidays as such, more that we can claim back in lieu time that we work outside office hours, which generally adds up to an extra handful of days' worth of hours each year
nv otm tho, the perpetual nose-to-the-grindstone american attitude to leave (and maternity leave especially) seems appalling to me
― War, Famine, Pestilence, Death, Umami (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 14:28 (six years ago) link
and the widespread practice of unused sick days being available as extra vacation days, leading to people coming into work sick all the goddamn time
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 14:32 (six years ago) link
i mean the concept of having an allocation of sick days to begin with is fairly cro-magnon tbh
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 14:33 (six years ago) link
Look away now Americans, but I often find I have more holidays than I know what to do with.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 14:35 (six years ago) link
I have a somewhat decent helping of vacation days but I can’t bring myself to travel more than a couple times a year. If I had 31 days a year I’d just take every other Friday off.
― valorous wokelord (silby), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 14:42 (six years ago) link
i am in the situation of having to use 1.5 vacation days before the end of this month or else i lose them. i mean, i think i will not struggle to find a way to take the time off but it's not a rare occurrence in the UK to have this "problem"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 14:44 (six years ago) link
Tell me about it.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 14:48 (six years ago) link
yeah i too am familar with this 'my diamond shoes are too tight' problem
― War, Famine, Pestilence, Death, Umami (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 14:50 (six years ago) link
Switch to gold shoes, they’re heavier but they’re more flexible
― valorous wokelord (silby), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 14:51 (six years ago) link
Oh
Oh lol no I mean *Flexi*days
18 fyi
― things you looked shockingly old when you wore (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 15:12 (six years ago) link
― War, Famine, Pestilence, Death, Umami (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, March 7, 2018 6:06 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
probably fair to compare to similar us jobs
i don't know the exact details, but just from her casually mentioning it, i know someone who works for the city (of los angeles) and she can rack up 3-4 weeks of vacation time in just a few months plus she gets a week of sick days, but possibly even more, and she basically works 4 days a week
the private sector is where things get bad for US workers
on another note, i know union jobs don't have paid time off or employer-covered healthcare, but they get paid decently as a trade off (like $60-$80/hour, but i'm sure it depends on the trade)
― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 17:06 (six years ago) link
"Liquour", "gasoline"
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 17:14 (six years ago) link
often thought that the US approach to acceptable amounts of paid leave points to the real sickness at the heart of the country― Under the influence of the Ranters (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, March 7, 2018 8:24 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Under the influence of the Ranters (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, March 7, 2018 8:24 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
mix this in with the fear of being fired 'at will' with zero safety net to catch you if that happens, then sprinkle in an unhealthy dose of youre a shit employee for taking any time off at all and youre probably spot on.
i worked for ibm in australia where i recieved 4 weeks of vacation (usable from my first day) with the option of buying another 4 weeks. I also got 365 sick days every two years (at 100% pay) in case i got cancer or something long termish.
Its been a rough transition to put it mildly.
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 21:34 (six years ago) link
365 sick days every two years (at 100% pay)
w...w...whaaaa???
― had (crüt), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 21:58 (six years ago) link
yeah ibm is famous for that, the rest of us get 8 or maybe 12 per year
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 22:03 (six years ago) link
Is this if you get certified sick you get 50% pay, essentially
― things you looked shockingly old when you wore (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 22:05 (six years ago) link
This is all because you people allowed communists to hold jobs and vote
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 22:11 (six years ago) link
Darragh if I was sick for 18 months I wouldnt get paid for 6 of those months but the other 12 would be paid at 100%. Weirdly the system never seemed to get abused but the odd thought of a fakey dr certificate and a second job to double my income may have crossed my mind. It almost seems like treating employees with respect results in those employees being respectful. Crazy.
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Thursday, 8 March 2018 15:54 (six years ago) link
Weirdly the system never seemed to get abused
i've wondered if it's like when we had tiny internet caps (10gb/mth) we'd squeeze out every last gig, but when internet plans grew to >1tb/limitless we stopped worrying
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 8 March 2018 19:51 (six years ago) link
115. pallid, yellow eggs with extra-fragile shells
― just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Thursday, 8 March 2018 20:39 (six years ago) link
get you some good farm eggs
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 9 March 2018 00:07 (six years ago) link
milk duds which i love much more than is warranted
― estela, Friday, 9 March 2018 00:47 (six years ago) link
Cataloging all the different state license plates you see on road trips
― El Tomboto, Friday, 9 March 2018 22:41 (six years ago) link
80% of people on a domestic US flight ordering dry ginger ale
― milquetoast malone (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 09:04 (six years ago) link
i would love to know how ginger ale worked its way so firmly into the american psyche as something you drink on the plane. surely this must constitute the bulk of the ginger ale business. whenever else do you even see it??
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 09:06 (six years ago) link
I know rite!!!
does it even go with free pretzels???
― milquetoast malone (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 09:08 (six years ago) link
it was the only soft drink except coke on a recent Europe-Japan flight I took, so maybe it’s a flight thing now?
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 09:12 (six years ago) link
really noticed this on a flight between Noo Yawk and Miami, and it was one of many soft drink options
― milquetoast malone (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 09:16 (six years ago) link
never really seen it ordered on non-US flights
I don’t take caffeine so I asked for it and the stewardess had to go search for it lol
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 09:18 (six years ago) link
You guys have some problem with drinking booze on a flight?
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 09:31 (six years ago) link
I don’t like getting dehydrated so I rarely drink on flights. This last trip (12+ hour flight) I was bumped up a class on air france and the stewardess, relieved to find a French speaker, talked me into wine.
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 09:33 (six years ago) link
Yes, I wouldn't normally drink on flights either, but on a long flight I'm not going to drink ginger beer tbh
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 09:44 (six years ago) link
I am a savage it is true
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 09:47 (six years ago) link
the thing is.. drinking ginger ale on a plane fuckin rules
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 11:10 (six years ago) link
I bought a 2-liter of ginger ale lemonade, and I'll tell you something, it ain't the same.
Last time I was on a plane, I asked for either a Sprite or a 7-UP. They said they only had Sierra Mist.
So I drank ginger ale.
― pplains, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 13:08 (six years ago) link
ginger ale isn't ginger beer btw
ale's ok as a mixer, beer is good any time
― bad left terf nut (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 13:12 (six years ago) link
ginger ale is an abomination tbh
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 13:18 (six years ago) link
About as much of an ale as root beer is a beer.
― pplains, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 15:00 (six years ago) link
i'm old enough to remember people ordering tomato juice because they thought it was healthier/would keep them hydrated
i usually just drink water, but will sometimes opt for orange juice
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 16:32 (six years ago) link
well tbf https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/weird/WHYY-Why-do-we-Drink-Tomato-Juice-on-Planes--278032761.html
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 16:56 (six years ago) link
i've also noticed the tomato juice on a flight thing!
― surm, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 18:45 (six years ago) link
actually i never thought of ginger ale on a flight but there's something about the marketing of ginger ale that i find very appealing at large. it's an ale! it's healthy! no caffeine! still tastes great! etcdef my favorite soda even though crush is my close #2 haha
― surm, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 18:47 (six years ago) link
literally the last thing i ever want to happen on a flight is some gastrointestinal emergency and ginger ale helps mitigate that risk
tomato juice on the other hand i have no fucking clue
― brendon urine (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 18:55 (six years ago) link
it's an ale! it's not it's healthy...
― just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 18:57 (six years ago) link
i was on flights in the early 80s and distinctly remember my dad ordering ginger ale. it's just what you do.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 19:20 (six years ago) link
Ginger is an anti-emetic so it’s meant to stop you vomiting over everything though idk how much actual ginger is involved in ginger ale.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 19:24 (six years ago) link
ginger ale and tomato juice are what i remember adults drinking when taking a break from being actively, aggressively alcoholic. (c. late 1970s)
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 19:32 (six years ago) link
ginger ale works well as a mixer but that's about it
was recently advised that in certain south east asian countries, ginger intake is less about the stomach and more about giving zing to the, uh, gentleman and lady parts
― milquetoast malone (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 20:19 (six years ago) link
prices on store shelves or menus not including the sales tax
― Lee626, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 04:08 (six years ago) link
^ this is almost as insane as tipping but doesn't get the same press
― just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 07:14 (six years ago) link
always get caught out on the sales tax, every freaking time
― milquetoast malone (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 07:28 (six years ago) link
“Resort fees” at hotels, too.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 07:28 (six years ago) link
When I was in Manhattan a couple of years ago I said to the guy in a store where I'd just bought a map, "I keep forgetting about the sales tax". His reply: "How do you think we pay for all these wars buddy?"
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 08:00 (six years ago) link
most places in Miami had a 'service fee' and expected a tip!!!
outrageous!!!
― Cardigan B (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 08:43 (six years ago) link
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, March 28, 2018 4:00 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
that's...not how it works in america but ok
― NBA YoungBoy named Rocky Raccoon (m bison), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 11:00 (six years ago) link
It was said w/ some humour, yr honour.
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 11:43 (six years ago) link
humor, yr honor ... remember what thread you're in.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 11:45 (six years ago) link
:-)
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 11:57 (six years ago) link
I like having the sales tax factored into the price already, but here's why I don't think it works in the U.S.:
- Different tax rates for different types of food.
- Different tax rates for different municipalities, counties and states.
It's much easier for a company to set a price and let the government add what they want to it rather than trying to work backwards by figuring out what the local tax is and figuring up what your base price will be. Imagine designing a grocery flyer for a six-county metro, saying GROUND CHUCK $3.80/lb and having to have each county try to work out what their real price is going to be.
Here's where I totally expect non-USAers to say WELL WE MANAGE TO SEND OUT OUR FLYERS WITH THE SAME PRICE, but I expect that your taxes are a bit more generalized than our little Balkanized nation of 2000 counties.
― pplains, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 13:20 (six years ago) link
just use income tax for state revenues ffs
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 13:46 (six years ago) link
Believe me I wish we would
― valorous wokelord (silby), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link
Know where in the U.S. you can usually find sales tax included in the price of off-the-shelf goods? Liquor stores.
― pplains, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 16:33 (six years ago) link
I bought a bottle of booze the other month and it was ~$15 more than the sign said.Who's looking at or receiving flyers for chains of groceries? If you're selling something in a shop, you can put the price of that item within that shop on the sign in the shop that tells you the price of the item! Instead of a different price that does not actually relate to the price you will pay!!!
― just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 16:40 (six years ago) link
Who's looking at or receiving flyers for chains of groceries?
Those of us who aren't vagabound adventurers!
https://i.imgur.com/kTcsuVU.jpg
I think the big reason is just the time it takes to figure out the retail cost of an item. Just figure out what the tax is at check out, like everyone else. That way, you won't waste time figuring up the price of items that don't sell.
($15 is a lot more than what anyone should expect though... unless the bottle cost $150.)
― pplains, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 16:47 (six years ago) link
PolySci (university course) I only realized yesterday it is short for Political Science and doesn’t mean “Lots of Science”
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 17:00 (six years ago) link
well, it's "poli sci"
― valorous wokelord (silby), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 17:05 (six years ago) link
heaps of people write it as polysci
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 17:13 (six years ago) link
heaps of people spell laptop 'labtop'
― sleepingbag, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 17:14 (six years ago) link
this makes absolutely no sense*. if you stock 500 of a successful item, then you're taking the time to figure out the retail cost 500 times at the check out, as opposed to once, at shelving.
one of the most infuriating things about it is the inability to get money ready to pay for your items before reaching the checkout; the amount of time this adds to everyone's transaction, if someone wishes to pay in cash, is enormous. in other countries, if I am buying a small item or three, I can count the money out before reaching an employee, hand it over, and leave. here, so as to not hold up everyone else in the shop, I now have about three kilos of coins that I have to find the time to take to a machine somewhere which will, for a TWELVE PERCENT handling fee, give me a VOUCHER that I can then take elsewhere to exchange for money.
*ie not sure if srs
― just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 18:08 (six years ago) link
Do u still not exist enough in America to have a bank acct
― valorous wokelord (silby), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 18:09 (six years ago) link
https://www.thewrap.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/simpsons-memes-money-can-be-exchanged-for-goods-and-services.jpg
― just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 18:55 (six years ago) link
the amount of time this adds to everyone's transaction, if someone wishes to pay in cash, is enormous.
ime waiting for people to use their debit card takes longer than paying with cash.
― new noise, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 19:09 (six years ago) link
micromanaging fellow patrons time, just fuck off
― brimstead, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 19:12 (six years ago) link
lifehackers must die
― brimstead, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 19:13 (six years ago) link
if you stock 500 of a successful item, then you're taking the time to figure out the retail cost 500 times at the check out, as opposed to once, at shelving.
Think about where ever the price is printed though. On the shelf. In advertising. On the board in the window. Oh, and the city held a special election last month to expand the marina and now every single one of those items has to be ticked up half a percent.
Good news though. The sales tax is only temporary which means you'll have to reverse the process in 18 months.
― pplains, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 21:26 (six years ago) link
pp you are not effectively arguing for the sensible convenience of the current system
― just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Thursday, 29 March 2018 02:42 (six years ago) link
I didn't say it made any sense!
A few years ago, our governor wanted to drop the sales tax on food. The ruckus that was raised from concerned retailers about how they would manage to charge one tax for one item and another tax for another item during the same transaction was bonkers. Especially when you showed them how items like beer and wine were already being taxed at different rates than everything else.
But it was like a commerce group filled with George HW Bushes: How will the computer know if someone's buying a plum or plum-flavored candy?
https://i.imgur.com/Ozi8L3I.jpg
The law passed. Food is charged a 2% tax while everything else is more like 9%. Except for beer and wine which are more like 10.5% - Depending on what side of the county you're shopping in.
So again, I'm not saying it can't be done, just listing the "finished" price on the shelf in the first place. But retailers have their reasons.
https://i.imgur.com/PXfKfuN.png
I'm sure you've seen these. Sometimes, retailers just want to let you know how much you're getting screwed.
― pplains, Thursday, 29 March 2018 13:41 (six years ago) link
LOL 'recovery fee'
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Thursday, 29 March 2018 14:12 (six years ago) link
I am 100% pro the sweetened beverage tax except that the other day I was hit with it on a bottle of kombucha with 3g of non-added sugar
― just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Thursday, 29 March 2018 15:34 (six years ago) link
tax the poor, yeah great idea
― brimstead, Thursday, 29 March 2018 15:36 (six years ago) link
It's awful I can't believe we passed this dumbass regressive shit tax
― valorous wokelord (silby), Thursday, 29 March 2018 15:43 (six years ago) link
tax the poorare you saying Warhol lied to me
― just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Thursday, 29 March 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
'Scooter' as a nickname
Dinner at 6pm and cellphones, apparently?https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/28/world/americas/french-waiter-rude.html?emc=edit_mbau_20180328&nl=&nlid=7629057220180328&te=1
― mor frog bs (S-), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 01:41 (six years ago) link
I’m a proud American whom eats them dinners at 6pm
― valorous wokelord (silby), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 02:23 (six years ago) link
In the Central time zone, we eat dinners at 5!
― pplains, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 03:19 (six years ago) link
getting a free t-shirt at a basketball game and wearing that t-shirt because that's in a preferred colour of your team and looks good on tv
― Cardigan B (King Boy Pato), Friday, 27 April 2018 13:03 (six years ago) link
even more american things: getting that free t-shirt via the delivery mechanism of a t-shirt cannon
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 27 April 2018 13:05 (six years ago) link
high level american thing: hot dogs shot out of a t-shirt cannon
― Cardigan B (King Boy Pato), Friday, 27 April 2018 13:11 (six years ago) link
― El Tomboto, Friday, 27 April 2018 13:33 (six years ago) link
gotta stand up for the anthem, hand on your heart because... uh, something about the troops
― Cardigan B (King Boy Pato), Friday, 25 May 2018 11:59 (six years ago) link
turkmenbashi things
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 25 May 2018 12:26 (six years ago) link
well we lost vietnam bc ppl didnt sing the natl anthem loud enough at the super bowls
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Saturday, 26 May 2018 00:45 (six years ago) link
18 packages of ketchup and 30 napkins in bag from drive thru
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Saturday, 26 May 2018 04:12 (six years ago) link
This is a free country so stand the fuck up and put your hand over your heart or else
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 26 May 2018 04:15 (six years ago) link
Toilet/shower situations that do not make me wish I was in a different country
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 26 May 2018 04:17 (six years ago) link
Clarify please
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 26 May 2018 04:22 (six years ago) link
ha... maybe amenities is a better word
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 26 May 2018 04:32 (six years ago) link
can't believe that you are made to stand up in the "bathroom" if the anthem is somehow played in there
― Cardigan B (King Boy Pato), Saturday, 26 May 2018 12:12 (six years ago) link
Sometimes I eat too many tacos and wind up playing the National Anthem all night.
― pplains, Saturday, 26 May 2018 13:48 (six years ago) link
hope you're sitting down
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 26 May 2018 15:03 (six years ago) link
We had 5th grade graduation for my kid a couple of weeks ago. Two baller kids refused to stand for the pledge and the anthem. THEY ARE 11 YEAR OLDS. I was so proud.Me, not even being American, wussed out and stood but I didn’t put my hand on my heart nor did I recite the pledge or sing the anthem (mostly because I don’t know the words to either.)
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Saturday, 26 May 2018 22:03 (six years ago) link
this is my pledge policy at work ^^^non-participation, but not making a show of not standing
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Saturday, 26 May 2018 22:32 (six years ago) link
i dont put my hand over my heart bcz i think it’s weird
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 May 2018 02:54 (six years ago) link
i would participate if i were wearing a hat, because having to take off the hat makes it exciting
― cr.ht (crüt), Sunday, 27 May 2018 03:06 (six years ago) link
Disgraceful that @nyjets owner will pay fines for players who kneel for National Anthem. Encouraging a movement premised on lies vs. police. Would he support all player protests? Would he pay fines of players giving Nazi salutes or spew racism? It’s time to say goodbye to Jets!— Rep. Pete King (@RepPeteKing) May 26, 2018
not standing up for the anthem is the new nazi salute!!!!
― Cardigan B (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 27 May 2018 03:22 (six years ago) link
The Cub Scouts not only didn't take their caps off, but the fact they were all wearing them IN A CHURCH in the first place blew my mind.
In other words, people already picking and choosing which ways to conduct themselves during all that carrying on. Taking a knee seems downright respectable.
― pplains, Sunday, 27 May 2018 03:23 (six years ago) link
If I understand correctly, the first NFL player who refused to stand for the anthem (since the NFL started bringing players out before it) was Colin Kaepernick, who took a knee after consulting with an actual veteran who suggested that it was an act of protest yet still reverent.
I as an actual American don't understand why every sporting event has to begin with the National Anthem and a military flyover and a "salute to our troops" and all that shit. Every fucking member of the United States Military joined by choice. A lot of them don't even see actual combat. They get paid a relatively generous wage. After leaving their service, they get free college. They get preference in hiring. They get discounts on everything for life. Many domestic civilian jobs are far more dangerous and far less rewarding. We Americans need to stop fellating our troops so much.
― incel clown posse (naus), Sunday, 27 May 2018 07:26 (six years ago) link
not fellating the troops is the equivalent of a nazi salute, pal
― Cardigan B (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 27 May 2018 08:36 (six years ago) link
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― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 27 May 2018 08:46 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/y4mb7MG.jpg
As an American, most WTF thing about this photo is the guy's sandals.
― pplains, Sunday, 27 May 2018 16:23 (six years ago) link
It is common knowledge that the national anthem playing is the equivalent of lights being dimmed for a stage performance. People at concessions or the bathroom gotta hustle.
― Yerac, Sunday, 27 May 2018 17:03 (six years ago) link
Unless the Blue Jays are in town. Then you know you've got at least 10 minutes before things start happening.
― pplains, Sunday, 27 May 2018 17:07 (six years ago) link
It's terrible opinions about the national anthem that makes me wish we had that Black Mirror social media rating system for people.
― Yerac, Sunday, 27 May 2018 17:10 (six years ago) link
yoghurt pots that are narrower at the top than the bottom, with a lip at the top to make it even harder to eat from
― we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Saturday, 9 June 2018 16:40 (six years ago) link
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― Anglo Scarfy (rip van wanko), Saturday, 9 June 2018 17:41 (six years ago) link
This...
There are two basic methods for eating with a knife and fork. The "American" involves having your fork in your left and your knife in your right when cutting your food, then putting the knife down and switching your fork to your right hand to eat, tines facing upwards. (If you're right-handed, that is.)
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Saturday, 9 June 2018 17:55 (six years ago) link
lol i did that until probably last year. it took approx 15 years of living outside the Uk to effect that change.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 9 June 2018 18:04 (six years ago) link
xxposts sic gah I hate those stupid containers
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 June 2018 18:53 (six years ago) link
TREMAYNELucy, may I ask you something? Do you find it oddthat I don't switch my fork when I eat, that I bring it tomy mouth with my left hand?LUCYMy mother called it "piling."TREMAYNEActually, it's not odd at all, it's the European way.
― U. K. Le Garage (wins), Saturday, 9 June 2018 18:59 (six years ago) link
eat everything with a single large spoon tightly clenched in either fist
problem solved
― CARL MARKS PRINCIPAL INVESTING AND ADVISORY SERVICES (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 9 June 2018 19:01 (six years ago) link
AA.
Nothing, to me, is more American than AA. You're addicted to alcohol (been there), a hard drug, and find yourself in an utter place of misery and despair, and you miraculously find the guts to reach out for help (which is HUGE), only to be slapped in the face and have religion forced on you. All well and good during your first cuppa or awkward entrance into the class that's chatting away, but the third of the twelve steps already is AA asking you to "turn your will and your life over to the care of god".
Yeah, ok... Way to force loads of shame and god-fearing (if you're susceptible to that nonsense) guilt on someone who's already way, way down in the dumps.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 11 June 2018 22:25 (six years ago) link
I should post this in the things I was shockingly old when I learned thread but I had no clue the 12 steps of AA read as so god-heavy! That's super disappointing.
― Yerac, Monday, 11 June 2018 23:38 (six years ago) link
I think it’s god with a lowercase g
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 02:07 (six years ago) link
It's really kinda based on the placebo theory.
In step one, admit complete defeat. You are unable to help yourself.
There kind of necessarily has to be something kind of Deus ex machina, they call it a "higher power". There is no explicit Christian rhetoric.
― i am updating my User Agreement and Privacy Policy (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 02:20 (six years ago) link
poor editing sorry
― i am updating my User Agreement and Privacy Policy (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 02:21 (six years ago) link
and there's really no dogma, you conceptualize this power however you want, and relate to it on your own terms. there's just this idea that you're being aided by a power outside yourself. I know that's still... weird, but I'm trying to convey that's it's a WEIRD program not a RELIGIOUS program.
However, there is a strong implication that, if you cannot even concede that there may be any sort of spiritual power out there, then the program might not be for you.
― i am updating my User Agreement and Privacy Policy (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 02:27 (six years ago) link
That is a really, really weird program. I see it came out of Prohibition. But hey, if it helps people and gives them a sense of responsibility , accountability to others, go nuts.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 15:20 (six years ago) link
- You just have to accept that there's a higher power guiding your life.
- My wife?
- No. Higher than that.
- My mother?
- Well, no, more like...
- Booze?
― pplains, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 15:46 (six years ago) link
I remember growing up in Akron and seeing the massive amounts of people who would go to Founder's Day (I think it was usually held at Akron U/U of Akron?) It was always impressive to me that so many people would show up and have something in common so strong that was not religious, not political, but intensely personal. I always sort of envied the community aspect even if the program itself didn't appeal to me on a number of levels.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 16:10 (six years ago) link
I did some research on the who lived in my last house. For most of its life, from WWII to the late 80s, it was owned by the guy who integrated AA meetings in Arkansas.
Kind of a weird claim to fame, but notable.
― pplains, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 16:24 (six years ago) link
Trapper Keepers. I remember watching an episode of South Park (or the Simpsons) all about Trapper Keepers and have no fucking clue what they were on about.
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 18:32 (six years ago) link
... had to google them right there to ensure I'd got the name right.
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 18:38 (six years ago) link
things i was shockingly old, as an American, when i learned: the folders themselves are called TRAPPERS because they trap your loose papers, and they are themselves KEPT in album form by TRAPPER KEEPERS
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 18:40 (six years ago) link
wow very impressed that TRAPPER KEEPER describes a two-level organization scheme in two words
― you bet, nancy (map), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 18:57 (six years ago) link
tbh I don't think I did google trapper keepers when I watched that SP episode and still have no idea wtf they are. some kind of fancy ring binder by the looks of it. I think I thought they were like a diary or something
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 21:29 (six years ago) link
Trapper Keepers completely never fit into desks or bookbags.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 21:34 (six years ago) link
(xp) no I meant I had to google trapper keeper before I posted on this thread!
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 22:58 (six years ago) link
I am still suspicious of googling trapper keepers* in case they just turn out to be ring binders and I get mad at them again
*or to go into a ....childrens' ....supply store? in the US
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 04:22 (six years ago) link
sic they’re just a brand of ring binders
― valorous wokelord (silby), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 04:28 (six years ago) link
And there is no such thing as a “children’s supply store”
― valorous wokelord (silby), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 04:29 (six years ago) link
what do you mean they're all over the place in my america
― you bet, nancy (map), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 04:30 (six years ago) link
post office, public library, children's supply store in every town i've ever known
― you bet, nancy (map), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 04:31 (six years ago) link
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera)
kbs _is_ a pretty good beer
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 04:34 (six years ago) link
? idgi
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 12:34 (six years ago) link
There’s a brewer called founders & that is one of their beers
― U. K. Le Garage (wins), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 12:37 (six years ago) link
ahhh righti just looked it up and it is based in michigan -- another american thing!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 12:44 (six years ago) link
[streaming the american soccerball coverage]
"And then stayed tuned for Spain vs Portugal... The Iberian Peninsula Derby!"
― Cardigan B (King Boy Pato), Friday, 15 June 2018 13:34 (six years ago) link
ha
murica
― F# A# (∞), Friday, 15 June 2018 15:56 (six years ago) link
(we have fun with the garbage disposal these days, every bit of discarded food is a Jabba foot soldier or Boba Fett.)
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Friday, 15 June 2018 19:54 (six years ago) link
"Lede". WTF?
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 16:18 (six years ago) link
Like Morbius' bugaboos "callback" and "showrunner", it's industry jargon that has leaked into the popular consciousness
― valorous wokelord (silby), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 16:24 (six years ago) link
afaik "lede", "hed", and "dek" are all spelled that way (i.e., wrong) so if they are left in copy during the editing process, it'll be easy for a copyeditor to spot and remove them
― valorous wokelord (silby), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 16:25 (six years ago) link
fixt.
― pplains, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 16:28 (six years ago) link
I never realised it was just a misspelling of "lead" that had become a standard, I've only ever seen it "buried the lede" and I guess thought it was an archaic term that only stuck around in that phrase
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 16:28 (six years ago) link
Never seen it before today, on ILX... twice!
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 16:35 (six years ago) link
sked
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 16:41 (six years ago) link
reax
stix nix hick pix
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 17:06 (six years ago) link
i'm the one that used it, sorry! i've seen plenty of journos use it, informally. same with "graf".
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 17:12 (six years ago) link
No need (nede?) for apologies, it was also in a tweet someone posted. An American tweet.
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 17:14 (six years ago) link
as an astute observer of american journalism, i feel the need to Both Sides the shit out of this
So how did we come to spell it lede?Although evidence dates the spelling to the 1970s, we didn't enter lede in our dictionaries until 2008. For much of that time, it was mostly kept under wraps as in-house newsroom jargon.Once, Al Marlens, the assistant managing editor, told one of the cleaning men to walk up to me and ask to see my lede, “not lead,” a newsie slang for the first sentence of a story. —Myron S. Waldman, Forgive Us Our Press Passes, 1991Spelling the word as lede helped copyeditors, typesetters, and others in the business distinguish it from its homograph lead (pronounced \led\ ), which also happened to refer to the thin strip of metal separating lines of type (as in a Linotype machine). Since both uses were likely to come up frequently in a newspaper office, there was a benefit to spelling the two words distinctly.William Safire, who knew a thing or two about newsrooms, wrote in his New York Times "On Language" column in 1990, "Wouldn't it be easier if the noun for the metal were spelled the way it sounded (led, to rhyme with dead) and the noun for the beginning of a newspaper story were spelled the way it is pronounced (lede, or leed, to rhyme with deed)?"Others have been less than willing to embrace the new spelling. At The Awl, founder Choire Sicha tore out at those who use lede like it's an affectation:You schmucks who use ridiculous journo-terms make me crazy! Finally, someone is willing to speak out against the use of “lede” in public. Because, ha ha, sucka, there’s no reason for it! (Plus, MOST OF YOU ARE JUST BLOGGERS.) —Choire Sicha, The Awl, 19 Sept. 2011
Although evidence dates the spelling to the 1970s, we didn't enter lede in our dictionaries until 2008. For much of that time, it was mostly kept under wraps as in-house newsroom jargon.
Once, Al Marlens, the assistant managing editor, told one of the cleaning men to walk up to me and ask to see my lede, “not lead,” a newsie slang for the first sentence of a story. —Myron S. Waldman, Forgive Us Our Press Passes, 1991
Spelling the word as lede helped copyeditors, typesetters, and others in the business distinguish it from its homograph lead (pronounced \led\ ), which also happened to refer to the thin strip of metal separating lines of type (as in a Linotype machine). Since both uses were likely to come up frequently in a newspaper office, there was a benefit to spelling the two words distinctly.
William Safire, who knew a thing or two about newsrooms, wrote in his New York Times "On Language" column in 1990, "Wouldn't it be easier if the noun for the metal were spelled the way it sounded (led, to rhyme with dead) and the noun for the beginning of a newspaper story were spelled the way it is pronounced (lede, or leed, to rhyme with deed)?"
Others have been less than willing to embrace the new spelling. At The Awl, founder Choire Sicha tore out at those who use lede like it's an affectation:
You schmucks who use ridiculous journo-terms make me crazy! Finally, someone is willing to speak out against the use of “lede” in public. Because, ha ha, sucka, there’s no reason for it! (Plus, MOST OF YOU ARE JUST BLOGGERS.) —Choire Sicha, The Awl, 19 Sept. 2011
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 17:15 (six years ago) link
Or twete? (xp)
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 17:15 (six years ago) link
whoops, forgot the link: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/bury-the-lede-versus-lead
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― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 13:26 (six years ago) link
sweet corn on the cob
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 18:07 (six years ago) link
public bathroom cubicles the size of a studio apartment
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 21:15 (six years ago) link
The Americans with Disabilities Act
― devops mom (silby), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 21:23 (six years ago) link
disturbingly large gaps in cubicle doors
― Number None, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 21:24 (six years ago) link
nah, I mean things like a bar's toilet being one room with a toilet and a urinal and a sink, and for some reason a dresser, and also enough room for a bed, not an accessible cubicle or two within a series of cubicles, which is not an American thing
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 21:28 (six years ago) link
Have a Nice Day
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 22:10 (six years ago) link
No concept of the greater good. America’s slogan should be ‘Me and Mine’
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Thursday, 19 July 2018 03:17 (six years ago) link
Zero shame
Fire at will
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Thursday, 19 July 2018 03:18 (six years ago) link
We are number despite all evidence to the contrary.
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Thursday, 19 July 2018 03:19 (six years ago) link
Popularity in school Is based solely off n parents income
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Thursday, 19 July 2018 03:20 (six years ago) link
No concept of the greater good.
This is a somewhat recent development and it certainly is not universal. The idea of public libraries originated in the USA. Public parks, public highways, public water works, public fire departments, public schools, public lands, and civil service all were flourishing ideas in the USA before about 1975.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 19 July 2018 03:23 (six years ago) link
Backhanded insults
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Thursday, 19 July 2018 03:26 (six years ago) link
^ I think the French preempted the US on that one.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 19 July 2018 03:29 (six years ago) link
Conference call with American colleague: "over here, in the States, we have a thing we call... The Sniff Test."
― Cardigan B (King Boy Pato), Friday, 20 July 2018 13:14 (six years ago) link
Cujo-ing dogs? An American tourist was talking to me in the pub while I tried to do the crossword. He started talking about is dog, and said that he used to offer it something 'from the last president, I don't talk politics in public, but you know who I mean, and something from the new president. He's very friendly, but he doesn't like black people!'. I don't understand the mechanics of the cujo-isation, but I just ignored him from then on.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 20 July 2018 14:36 (six years ago) link
The sniff test is a rite of passage all men around the world take part in
― F# A# (∞), Friday, 20 July 2018 15:20 (six years ago) link
https://www.presidentschoice.ca/content/dam/lclonline/images/products/PC%20Extra%20Meaty%20Dog%20Food%20-%20Beef%20Dinner%20Cuts%20in%20Gravy%20EN%202668772.jpeg.thumb.420.420.margin.png
President's Choice is actually a Canadian brand of dog food, I'd have told him.
― mick signals, Friday, 20 July 2018 15:27 (six years ago) link
― Number None, Thursday, 19 July 2018 07:24 (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is so fucking weird, i do not understand this at all
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 8 September 2018 23:40 (six years ago) link
seriously why even hang a door there when the gap is so big you're basically guaranteed an audience
Ranch might be the most american word there is.
Like so many concepts and objects associated with the western USA, the ranchero was borrowed from Mexico.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 9 September 2018 00:13 (six years ago) link
Do you mean doors or "doorways"?
Like, none of these would ever have had doors in the first place.
https://i.imgur.com/8C2eC7p.jpg
― pplains, Sunday, 9 September 2018 00:36 (six years ago) link
lmao
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 9 September 2018 00:43 (six years ago) link
bathroom cubicles i think they mean
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 September 2018 00:49 (six years ago) link
*unveils list of american things* so we call those bathroom stalls
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Sunday, 9 September 2018 00:56 (six years ago) link
Get it rightSicka “europeans”Also i never even close the door if I’m inside a stall
― F# A# (∞), Sunday, 9 September 2018 01:54 (six years ago) link
Foul
― faculty w1fe (silby), Sunday, 9 September 2018 02:59 (six years ago) link
Number 1 not 2 grams
― F# A# (∞), Sunday, 9 September 2018 03:04 (six years ago) link
what i love about ilx is that international threads always end up being about poop
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 September 2018 04:16 (six years ago) link
de subjectivism aka dutch oven
― gordon cartyard (alomar lines), Sunday, 9 September 2018 05:03 (six years ago) link
If only there was a blanket big enough to cover all of ilx
― F# A# (∞), Sunday, 9 September 2018 10:23 (six years ago) link
CLOSETS IN BEDROOMS
― Lee626, Thursday, 13 September 2018 09:56 (six years ago) link
Is that not more of a....universal thing
― Number None, Thursday, 13 September 2018 12:45 (six years ago) link
If there’s a world with bedrooms without closets i do not want to live in it
― F# A# (∞), Thursday, 13 September 2018 13:16 (six years ago) link
is this like closets (built in rooms) vs wardrobes (free standing furniture)? otherwise this non-american is nonplussed.
― Winner of the 2018 Great British Bae *cough* (ledge), Thursday, 13 September 2018 14:02 (six years ago) link
yes
― Lee626, Thursday, 13 September 2018 15:04 (six years ago) link
I seem to recall being told that in the colonial era (talking mid-Atlantic USian here), homes were taxed by the number of doors. So 17th and 18th-century American bedrooms were vastly more likely to have a freestanding wardrobe than a closet.
Now I'm not so sure; maybe it was just far simpler to build rectangular rooms one against another. And the carpentry required for a separate closet was simply too much trouble in an era when people had far fewer clothes.
Even the closets in my 1940ish house are laughably small; a contemporary American person just tends to have a lot more clothes, some of which aren't worn very often. My wife and daughter both have their own; my son and I share his.
afaict it wasn't until the 1970s that walk-in closets became a thing in most homes. The even more lavish his/hers closets mostly date from the McMansion era of the 90s-oughts.
― Never mind the bollards (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 13 September 2018 17:03 (six years ago) link
Office cubicles
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 13 September 2018 19:12 (six years ago) link
From the last run of posts, one could conclude that Americanism is a vast plot to remove the doors from offices, and put them instead into houses.
― Never mind the bollards (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 13 September 2018 20:04 (six years ago) link
Except we’ve taken a lot of the doors back out of houses in the last 30 years, nobody has had a door on their kitchen for decades
― faculty w1fe (silby), Thursday, 13 September 2018 20:08 (six years ago) link
All the doors are reclaimed for use in furniture now
― faculty w1fe (silby), Thursday, 13 September 2018 20:09 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS-af9Q-zvQ
― Never mind the bollards (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 13 September 2018 20:22 (six years ago) link
This reminds of a very American thing I noticed after house hunting a couple times: no over head lights in living rooms.
― just1n3, Friday, 14 September 2018 04:27 (six years ago) link
ugh yes this is my life :(
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 14 September 2018 13:59 (six years ago) link
Always been 50/50 for me... Granted, the light is usually part of a ceiling fan.
― pplains, Saturday, 15 September 2018 00:56 (six years ago) link
big lamp™️ is behind it all, imo
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 15 September 2018 02:50 (six years ago) link
griddleskillet
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 21 September 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link
^^^^
smorewtf?― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, February 4, 2018 11:35 AM (seven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, February 4, 2018 11:35 AM (seven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Seven months on and my local Morrisons is advertising Smores - I'm not sure if they sell them though.
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Friday, 21 September 2018 21:13 (six years ago) link
Sorry, S'mores, I still don't know what they are, some kind of dessert?
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Friday, 21 September 2018 21:15 (six years ago) link
graham cracker base layer, piece of chocolate bar layer, toasted marshmallow layer, graham cracker top layer
its a treat
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Saturday, 22 September 2018 03:36 (six years ago) link
the s'more is the context that allows Hershey's chocolate to actually make sense
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 22 September 2018 03:41 (six years ago) link
don't forget the twig, the campfire and a little camping chair outside the tent
― F# A# (∞), Saturday, 22 September 2018 03:44 (six years ago) link
countries that liked american things in 2017:
http://www.pewglobal.org/database/indicator/1/survey/19/
― F# A# (∞), Saturday, 22 September 2018 03:45 (six years ago) link
― F# A# (∞), Friday, September 21, 2018 10:44 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i would not recommend putting these things on a s'mores as it would render it inedible.
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Saturday, 22 September 2018 03:47 (six years ago) link
get a loada this guy
― F# A# (∞), Saturday, 22 September 2018 03:49 (six years ago) link
fire pits at the beach are good too
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 22 September 2018 03:50 (six years ago) link
S’mores are overrated
― calstars, Saturday, 22 September 2018 03:50 (six years ago) link
Roasted mellows ok, fuck a graham cracker. Maybe some chocolate later.
― calstars, Saturday, 22 September 2018 03:51 (six years ago) link
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Saturday, 22 September 2018 06:59 (six years ago) link
roasted mellows
graham cracker
do you mean a gram cracker
― Bitty Gingham Sheet (sic), Saturday, 22 September 2018 07:43 (six years ago) link
graham crackers are good i love smores
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 22 September 2018 15:01 (six years ago) link
morning TV hosts currently screaming with laughter at the notion that sales of "American cheese" are slowing bcz "millennials" are aware of cheeses that contain cheese
"Havardy? Havardy."
"Goat brie, wrapped in a fig!"
― Eight-Tenths Bigamy (sic), Friday, 26 October 2018 16:10 (five years ago) link
they pipe NO2 into those studios iirc
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Friday, 26 October 2018 16:17 (five years ago) link
angry to learn about cheeses that do not come in a highly convenient spray can
― riposte malone (King Boy Pato), Friday, 26 October 2018 22:53 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWRJTgvhNd0
― pplains, Saturday, 27 October 2018 01:28 (five years ago) link
However I feel like one very American thing is the idea of “tastings” and “learning” about cheese, wine, craft beer, sausage, whiskey, pickle relish or whatever. It’s this modern day bougie flipside of our impoverished food culture. It’s still a huge improvement of course.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Saturday, 27 October 2018 01:32 (five years ago) link
Using the word 'theater' for a cinema.
― It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christ (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 10:17 (five years ago) link
... or "the pictures", as it's called in Scotland.
― It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christ (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 10:19 (five years ago) link
― It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christ (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 10:17 (thirty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Again though, that's one of those things where British English has changed, whereas Americans are still using English terminology from the 1600s. A theatre was anywhere where audiences watched a performance, including anatomical dissections (we still use surgical theatre, of course).
― glumdalclitch, Thursday, 13 December 2018 10:50 (five years ago) link
-- any indoor purpose-built structure, I guess I should add
― glumdalclitch, Thursday, 13 December 2018 10:52 (five years ago) link
Ah, that could be it.
― It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christ (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 10:55 (five years ago) link
Australian usage, too - and there are plenty of standalone theatres, or rooms in art museums, that aren’t dedicated cinemas but show movies sometimes. (Is the term “lecture theatre” not used in Scotland or England, for a raked-seating room in a university or conference venue?)
― sans lep (sic), Thursday, 13 December 2018 11:36 (five years ago) link
It is, yes
― Number None, Thursday, 13 December 2018 11:49 (five years ago) link
Tom said theater, not theatre.
― ✈️✈️ (pplains), Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:20 (five years ago) link
LOL, American guy in my work keeps calling me Sir.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 19:10 (five years ago) link
maybe he thinks you're a knight. everyone in Great England is, right?
― sans lep (sic), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 19:15 (five years ago) link
he's being polite, be nice
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 19:28 (five years ago) link
tell him he's a spineless boot licker and that the class war is real
― ogmor, Thursday, 24 January 2019 09:00 (five years ago) link
These Americans and their obsession with 'civility', knowwhatimean?
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 January 2019 09:08 (five years ago) link
referring to "new wave" when talking about post-punk
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 21 February 2019 20:25 (five years ago) link
i recall watching vh1 as a child and remember they would say new wave was influenced by post punk
i don't hear anyone with a serious interest in music use the genres interchangeably
with music genres, though, there are so many dilettantes and uninitiated that it wouldn't surprise me if non-americans made this mistake, too
― John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, Thursday, 21 February 2019 21:21 (five years ago) link
Celebrate a Sham-Rockin’ St. Patrick’s Day! ☘️
https://i.imgur.com/kuOLGbe.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/adRdrde.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/SVnbqHK.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/dDip85m.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/IBIzQro.jpg
not sure the theme holds up on the final one tbh but I dunno what game they're talking about
https://i.imgur.com/ebG06d3.jpg
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 20:32 (five years ago) link
truly the most disgusting savagery
― kiss me dadly (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 20:33 (five years ago) link
shamrock pretzels ffs
― kiss me dadly (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 20:34 (five years ago) link
I dunno what game they're talking about
NCAA men's college basketball tournament (aka "March Madness").
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 20:36 (five years ago) link
that's an annual game on 17th of March, then?
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 21:17 (five years ago) link
https://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.27705292.1551034428!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_768/image.jpg
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 21:22 (five years ago) link
have a goo time
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Thursday, 14 March 2019 20:08 (five years ago) link
― John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, Thursday, February 21, 2019 1:21 PM (three weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
no, pretty much every american does this
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 14 March 2019 20:12 (five years ago) link
using cornflakes as breading or topping
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 14 March 2019 20:13 (five years ago) link
gas stations with wide selection of beer
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 14 March 2019 20:15 (five years ago) link
graham and craig pronounced gram and crag
creg iirc
― what if bod was one of us (ledge), Thursday, 14 March 2019 20:17 (five years ago) link
crəg
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 14 March 2019 20:19 (five years ago) link
jim, i have friends in the music scene/industry.none of them use new wave as a synonymfor post punk.
we do say "crayg," though, lol
i'm pretty sure it varies by region
― John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, Thursday, 14 March 2019 20:22 (five years ago) link
new wave means rock music with keyboardspost punk means sounds like joy division
― na (NA), Thursday, 14 March 2019 20:30 (five years ago) link
i wish post punk meant sounds like pere ubu or the raincoats but no it's always joy division
but i've never known anyone to use those terms interchangeably
― na (NA), Thursday, 14 March 2019 20:31 (five years ago) link
― kiss me dadly (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 14 March 2019 20:50 (five years ago) link
Ceecil
― Swing Band the Sailor (Tom D.), Thursday, 14 March 2019 20:58 (five years ago) link
... hold on, I've done that one before.
― Swing Band the Sailor (Tom D.), Thursday, 14 March 2019 20:59 (five years ago) link
that shepherds pie looks legit
its incredible to me they just cannot get the paddys thing right tho
― ~mine own~ bitcoin (darraghmac), Thursday, 14 March 2019 21:02 (five years ago) link
paddyspaddys dayst patricks day
thats it. there are no other terms.
― ~mine own~ bitcoin (darraghmac), Thursday, 14 March 2019 21:03 (five years ago) link
sweet potatoes?
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Thursday, 14 March 2019 21:20 (five years ago) link
yeah ive done that its grand
― ~mine own~ bitcoin (darraghmac), Thursday, 14 March 2019 21:29 (five years ago) link
no argument against the noble kumara, just seems less than "legit" as a nostalgic taste of the auld motherland
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Thursday, 14 March 2019 21:52 (five years ago) link
i have the privilege of not living (or cooking) in the aul wan tbf
― ~mine own~ bitcoin (darraghmac), Thursday, 14 March 2019 22:11 (five years ago) link
Potatoes were a new world import btw
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 15 March 2019 03:05 (five years ago) link
Before potatoes came to Ireland, the Irish mostly just ate leprechauns iirc
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 15 March 2019 03:08 (five years ago) link
That's why there are so few leprechauns about, nowadays
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 15 March 2019 03:09 (five years ago) link
Last month I was driving to work and was in a queue behind a traffic light, left the 'keep clear' box in front of me empty, the car behind me drove around my car into the space! I was livid to the point of considering beeping my horn.― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, March 11, 2019 12:02 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, March 11, 2019 12:02 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Honestly don't know if this is sarcasm or not
― calumy (rip van wanko), Friday, 15 March 2019 03:18 (five years ago) link
Anyway, we honk like migrating geese
― calumy (rip van wanko), Friday, 15 March 2019 03:23 (five years ago) link
North American things.
― pplains, Friday, 15 March 2019 03:25 (five years ago) link
love this fuckin country
― alomar lines, Friday, 15 March 2019 05:23 (five years ago) link
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 15 March 2019 03:05 (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 15 March 2019 03:08 (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
some one-two, this
― ~mine own~ bitcoin (darraghmac), Friday, 15 March 2019 07:42 (five years ago) link
one-potato two-potato three-potato four
― pplains, Friday, 15 March 2019 13:28 (five years ago) link
waiting in line for the Starbucks bathroom for like a good 20 minutes
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 17 March 2019 04:35 (five years ago) link
bathroom
― seedy ron (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 17 March 2019 06:27 (five years ago) link
^^
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 March 2019 06:47 (five years ago) link
*shites in the loo*
― velko, Sunday, 17 March 2019 06:59 (five years ago) link
― alomar lines, Thursday, March 14, 2019 10:23 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It is something that has thrilled me
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Sunday, 17 March 2019 07:22 (five years ago) link
whats american abt bathroom
― ~mine own~ bitcoin (darraghmac), Sunday, 17 March 2019 10:20 (five years ago) link
Maybe they've got beer in them.
― Bielsa, Bub (Tom D.), Sunday, 17 March 2019 10:29 (five years ago) link
Using bathroom to mean the lavatory as opposed to the room you bathe in is what’s being referred to there
― A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Sunday, 17 March 2019 10:32 (five years ago) link
calumy (rip van wanko) at 3:18 15 Mar 19Last month I was driving to work and was in a queue behind a traffic light, left the 'keep clear' box in front of me empty, the car behind me drove around my car into the space! I was livid to the point of considering beeping my horn.― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, March 11, 2019 12:02 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkHonestly don't know if this is sarcasm or not
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 17 March 2019 10:39 (five years ago) link
gas stations with wide selection of beerlove this fuckin country― alomar lines, Thursday, March 14, 2019 10:23 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkIt is something that has thrilled me― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Sunday, 17 March 2019 6:22 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Sunday, 17 March 2019 6:22 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Varies by state, the fucking palava you have to go through to buy a six pack of beer and a bag of chips in Pennsylvania was another infuriating and very American.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 17 March 2019 11:24 (five years ago) link
Fun fact, the literal meaning of "lavatory" is also "a room for washing", they are equivalent. At least Australians use "dunny" which derives from a word meaning "dung house".
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 17 March 2019 11:56 (five years ago) link
tbh I don't know anyone who says "lavatory" either, it's toilets/loos/bogs afaik
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 17 March 2019 12:20 (five years ago) link
― ~mine own~ bitcoin (darraghmac), Sunday, 17 March 2019 12:27 (five years ago) link
Using bathroom to mean the lavatory as opposed to the room you bathe in is what’s being referred to thereyeah but “toilet” means the room you dress or wash in, it’s modern polite euphemisms replacing now-seen-as-coarse-euphemisms all the way down
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Sunday, 17 March 2019 12:27 (five years ago) link
i'm reading harry potter to my kids and they keep saying "bathroom". now, jk rowling's english, and these kids are clearly intended to be english (king's cross station etc) - so what gives? has the editor americanized these words because of the larger american market for these books? or is there an actual american edition?? (struggling to think of what else might have been changed in this case, presumably a few passing references to graham crackers and rodeos)
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 17 March 2019 13:40 (five years ago) link
restroom
― Bielsa, Bub (Tom D.), Sunday, 17 March 2019 13:46 (five years ago) link
Using bathroom to mean the lavatory as opposed to the room you bathe in
"Lavatory" is derived from, let's see, "lavatorium," and from "lavare," which means to wash or bathe.
Is there an "oh let's laugh at the stupid Americans" point that I am missing here?
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 17 March 2019 14:42 (five years ago) link
"Hunsecker... to the lavatorium - at once!!"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 17 March 2019 14:44 (five years ago) link
I know the etymology of lavatory duh. I was just clarifying why ppl were mentioning bathroom itt because deems asked “what’s American about bathroom”. Outside of the us it’s less common to use “bathroom” for a room that only contains a toilet and sink (ie no bath or shower). That’s what ppl are saying is American.
― A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Sunday, 17 March 2019 15:30 (five years ago) link
Restroom is also used a lot, and as far as I know not many people retreat to the dunghouse to rest
― calumy (rip van wanko), Sunday, 17 March 2019 15:54 (five years ago) link
I believe that would be an ecumenical matter, for resolution on a “shitting at work” thread
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Sunday, 17 March 2019 17:28 (five years ago) link
restrooms are public bathrooms
― John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, Sunday, 17 March 2019 17:36 (five years ago) link
is there an actual american edition??
yes-- pudding becomes dessert etc. (and obv philosopher becomes sorcerer).
read an article once about the process and they talked about leaving in colloquialisms where they could be understood from context and added that vital tone of twee exotica: the example i remember was someone saying "she got a bit shirty with me".
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 17 March 2019 17:37 (five years ago) link
[80 degrees or higher]
you kids wanna shaved ice??
― Tokyo Ghetto Stüssy (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 08:27 (five years ago) link
Dudes going to work wearing business casual and their fave baseball team’s cap.
― Tokyo Ghetto Stüssy (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 23 May 2019 21:05 (five years ago) link
In USA the toilet water is very very high - I can only assume this is done deliberately, to accomodate the monster shits done by its people.— nina oyama (@ninaoyama) May 29, 2019
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 7 June 2019 08:13 (five years ago) link
smiling
― frame casual (dog latin), Friday, 7 June 2019 08:55 (five years ago) link
I take big shits and I cannot lie
― be the 2 chainz you want 2 see in the world (m bison), Friday, 7 June 2019 11:38 (five years ago) link
This classic in the commentshttps://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/7qn75k/poop_knife_from_reddit/
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 7 June 2019 11:49 (five years ago) link
not clicking on that url.
― pplains, Friday, 7 June 2019 14:02 (five years ago) link
wise move, I am full of regret
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 7 June 2019 14:03 (five years ago) link
Masseuse rhymes with mooseEntrée = main course"with au jus"
― The Pingularity (ledge), Thursday, 20 June 2019 10:30 (five years ago) link
the wursthaus in harvard square famously (to my dad) used to serve "chili con carne - mit beans"
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 20 June 2019 11:45 (five years ago) link
Entrée did confuse me the first time I saw it
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 20 June 2019 18:12 (five years ago) link
It confused me too – but I was an American in Australia.
― pplains, Thursday, 20 June 2019 18:25 (five years ago) link
Entrée still infuriates me every time Minutes after reading that post I also heard an American refer to “dipping a sandwich in au jus”
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 20 June 2019 18:29 (five years ago) link
what does masseuse rhyme with in the old empire?
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 20 June 2019 18:43 (five years ago) link
hers
― The Pingularity (ledge), Thursday, 20 June 2019 19:09 (five years ago) link
how do you say masseur? mass oo-er?
― The Pingularity (ledge), Thursday, 20 June 2019 19:11 (five years ago) link
we have high toilet water and entrees in canada too unforch
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 20 June 2019 19:14 (five years ago) link
Mah-sirMah-soos
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 20 June 2019 19:15 (five years ago) link
what does masseuse rhyme with in the old empire?― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, June 20, 2019 6:43 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkhers― The Pingularity (ledge), Thursday, June 20, 2019 7:09 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, June 20, 2019 6:43 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― The Pingularity (ledge), Thursday, June 20, 2019 7:09 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I mean, there's no "r" there. Plus, it looks like Dr. Seuss.
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 20 June 2019 19:16 (five years ago) link
Well you do say dool for duel after all. For example. Talking of American things.
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Thursday, 20 June 2019 19:19 (five years ago) link
there's masseuse and masseur. female and male.
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 20 June 2019 19:19 (five years ago) link
Well you do say dool for duel after all. For example. Talking of American things.― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Thursday, June 20, 2019 7:19 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Thursday, June 20, 2019 7:19 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
What do you guys say - drool?
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 20 June 2019 19:30 (five years ago) link
Duel
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Thursday, 20 June 2019 19:42 (five years ago) link
You don't say fool for fuel, after all.
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Thursday, 20 June 2019 19:43 (five years ago) link
hers― The Pingularity (ledge), Thursday, June 20, 2019 3:09 PM (forty-three minutes ago)how do you say masseur? mass oo-er?― The Pingularity (ledge), Thursday, June 20, 2019 3:11 PM (forty-one minutes ago)
― The Pingularity (ledge), Thursday, June 20, 2019 3:09 PM (forty-three minutes ago)
― The Pingularity (ledge), Thursday, June 20, 2019 3:11 PM (forty-one minutes ago)
classic Britishism -- "if we bungle the pronunciation badly enough, maybe people will forget that it's a loanword"
― tandoor vittles (unregistered), Thursday, 20 June 2019 19:54 (five years ago) link
(TIL about hyperforeignism)
― tandoor vittles (unregistered), Thursday, 20 June 2019 20:01 (five years ago) link
I mean, there's no "r" there. Plus, it looks like Dr. Seuss.I may have some exciting news for you about the pronunciation of American author Theodor Geisel’s middle name
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 20 June 2019 20:07 (five years ago) link
yeah, it still doesn't rhyme with moose.
― The Pingularity (ledge), Friday, 21 June 2019 07:40 (five years ago) link
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:57 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
Although herb has always been spelled with an h, pronunciation without it was usual until the 19th century and is still standard in the US.
― Euripedes' Trousers (Tom D.), Sunday, 11 August 2019 00:36 (five years ago) link
I do love how Americans pronounce bay-zil - especially being a neuroscience guy so it's a homophone for "basal ganglia" which always gives me a smile.
Anyway I came here for "padiddle" - who even HAS a word for a car with one headlight working, let alone something as loony as that?
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 00:42 (four years ago) link
not to be confused with the paradiddle
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 01:10 (four years ago) link
"padiddle" - who even HAS a word for a car with one headlight working, let alone something as loony as that?
not me. I've never run across "padiddle" ever anywhere, in conversation or in print, and I know a lot of words.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 02:56 (four years ago) link
nope me neither
and I drive one
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 02:58 (four years ago) link
I have heard of “padiddle” but not as a word for a car with a headlight out but as something you say when you see one.
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 03:23 (four years ago) link
It’s a road trip game basically, I forget what the forfeit is if your seatmate says it before you.
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 03:24 (four years ago) link
here on Australia we have "spotto" which is what one says when one sees a yellow car; "hippo" is a variant for weird colours like purple
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 03:37 (four years ago) link
*in
no, spotto is a game where you are hunting for other humans in the bush at night with a handheld torch
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 05:16 (four years ago) link
true, I take it you were in the Scouts as well sic
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 05:18 (four years ago) link
scouts, DofE, a my-school-specific program called Adventure Country, etcspent a weekend in the bush every two months or so from sixth grade. at 16 we were just getting dropped in the desert near the NSW/Qld border, with girls from another school and a map, with a rendezvous point to meet adults/vans at five days later. have to wonder if that still goes on in a cell phone era
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 05:52 (four years ago) link
that is frickin awesome
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 06:02 (four years ago) link
Australian things thread needed.
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 06:43 (four years ago) link
here on Australia we have "spotto" which is what one says when one sees a yellow car‽
― times 牛肉麵 (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 07:39 (four years ago) link
The regional variant I'm familiar with was 'perdiddle' and the first to spot and call one out gave the other a sock in the arm. Thanks for dredging up high school memories I'd thought were well and truly suppressed.
― Furter-Bursting Tater Squirter (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 09:59 (four years ago) link
the fires of perdiddle
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 10:08 (four years ago) link
Had a feeling that my padiddle reference would not be universally recognized, even among Americans tbh.
― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 10:41 (four years ago) link
When we see a Wallflowers car, we hit each other in the upper arm and yell "COCK-EYE".
― pplains, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 12:16 (four years ago) link
Padiddle may be regional? In any case it is decently widespread but there are some families & communities that simply don't have that tradition and it just missed them in its distribution. I am not familiar with the variant where you get to punch someone, but I have heard of "punch buggy" where you punch someone's arm if you spot a VW Beetle. I think you have to say the color: "punch buggy blue!" To indicate that you actually did see a specific car.
I think I was a teenager before I heard of either of these. They all sound pretty stupid to me - even pointlessly cruel. But apparently in some circles it's a beloved type of juvenile fun, like yelling "shotgun" or "dibs" or "bags I..."
― Instant Carmax (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 14:30 (four years ago) link
if you saw a lada you could stab someone
― all over bar the shouting (im here for the shouting) (darraghmac), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 14:34 (four years ago) link
Fog lights do not count as a padiddle even if used as primary lights. There is no such thing as a double padiddle.See also: Punch buggy
See also: Punch buggy
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
i remember learning about padiddles in high school -- i had never heard of it before, presumably because i was an only child? idk
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 18:30 (four years ago) link
i thought it was suuuuuuper weird that hitting/punching/socking someone in the car with you was a thing people did for laughs
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link
name of your college with the year you graduated/will graduate in your twitter bio
― ت (jim in vancouver), Friday, 1 November 2019 18:53 (four years ago) link
just generally having a hard on for your alma mater - referring to the college you attended as your alma mater
― ت (jim in vancouver), Friday, 1 November 2019 18:55 (four years ago) link
still conflating nationality-american for nationality
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Friday, 1 November 2019 19:24 (four years ago) link
i call my high school my alma mater, but i do it in a bullwinkle voice
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 1 November 2019 20:03 (four years ago) link
- having a Bullwinkle voice
― S-, Saturday, 2 November 2019 00:07 (four years ago) link
calling a toilet a “half-bath”
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Saturday, 2 November 2019 00:43 (four years ago) link
claiming to be middle class, no matter what you do for a living, or what your net worth is
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 2 November 2019 00:54 (four years ago) link
ritualistic vehicular human sacrifice in the name of economic growth
― i'm not a government man; i'm a government, man. (m bison), Saturday, 2 November 2019 03:06 (four years ago) link
This year 2,295 breweries submitted 9,497 beers to be judged in the competition. Only 283 of those breweries walked away with medals, 37 of those for the first time.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 2 November 2019 03:42 (four years ago) link
macaroni & cheese on bar menus
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 2 November 2019 03:51 (four years ago) link
It was a thing for a while elsewhere, especially lobster mac and cheese now we’re all about the katsu sando. Maybe the next global hipster food trend can be non-shit buffalo wings. How hard is it not to bread the wings, bake or fry them very hot and drown in Franks red hot.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 2 November 2019 04:14 (four years ago) link
When watching sports on television I am exposed to advertisements featuring "buffalo wings", as conceived by several different corporate franchises. Such ads try desperately to make them look appetizing, using every trick of lighting, slow motion, action shots of wings spilling in profusion or floating through the air to majestic music. You name it.
Gawd, those breaded, glossy, candy-colored monstrosities look disgusting.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 2 November 2019 05:40 (four years ago) link
they are hella tasty tho
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 2 November 2019 16:17 (four years ago) link
― nathom, Saturday, 2 November 2019 19:25 (four years ago) link
American things
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Saturday, 2 November 2019 20:52 (four years ago) link
Omg the most am thing in my eurotrash opinion: cheese cans. The fuck
― nathom, Sunday, 3 November 2019 17:55 (four years ago) link
If it makes you feel any better, the section of my supermarket that sells genuine cheese is approximately 100 times larger than the square footage where canned 'cheese' is displayed for sale.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 3 November 2019 18:04 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFGH55fjBvI
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 3 November 2019 19:17 (four years ago) link
different cheese sections for proles and bourgies, with the latter over by the salami: an american thing?
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 3 November 2019 19:37 (four years ago) link
(i'm a tillamook man and they have the right idea working both sides of the street: motorcycle battery of cheddar over here, "we stuck some peppercorns into an ounce of also-cheddar and left out the food coloring, give us $9.50" over there)
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 3 November 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link
sometimes mac and cheese is the only good thing on a bar menu.
― Yerac, Sunday, 3 November 2019 19:50 (four years ago) link
Hives and hickeys.
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 08:15 (four years ago) link
do non-americans use the baseball base system to delineate sex acts?
― I am Holger Czukay (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 09:02 (four years ago) link
1st wicket, 2nd wicket etc iirc
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 09:04 (four years ago) link
take the points and the goals will come iirc
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 09:15 (four years ago) link
Whip the bails off.
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 09:39 (four years ago) link
Cricket is much better for ridiculous double entendres.
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 09:40 (four years ago) link
Tell it to Meatloaf!Really though is there a Brit equivalent to president progressive sexual “scoring” i.e. first base, second base etc.?
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 12:34 (four years ago) link
disregard “president” damn thumb
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 12:37 (four years ago) link
No, rounders isn't that popular.
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 12:38 (four years ago) link
You can actually bowl a maiden over in cricket!
yes that’s p good
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 12:43 (four years ago) link
people don't get hives outside the USA?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 16:13 (four years ago) link
nah there are beekeepers all around the world
― "Big Joe Fuck and the Bogalusa Maniac" (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 16:15 (four years ago) link
I meant skin hives — itchy welts caused by allergy or stress
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 16:34 (four years ago) link
the bee population is in global decline, i imagine beekeeping must be pretty stressful
― "Big Joe Fuck and the Bogalusa Maniac" (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 16:40 (four years ago) link
bees live in "tower blocks" in the UK
― insecurity bear (sic), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, December 4, 2019 8:34 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
i think in british english they just call that a rash?
― #FBPIRA (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 18:54 (four years ago) link
Ha, that's right!
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 18:55 (four years ago) link
A rash is different than hives. Hives ime are like individual welts whereas a rash is more diffuse and has more points of irritation (many small bumps, for example). You can get them both from contact with an irritant or from mental stressors, but they are not the same thing. ime.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 19:19 (four years ago) link
Maybe in BrE the technical term “urticaria” is in common parlance
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 19:49 (four years ago) link
(Australia has the skin version of hives too ftr. "Hickeys" started to take over from "love bites" in the '90s afaik, as with many other slang terms in Hollywood teen movies. no idea what #youths today call them)
― insecurity bear (sic), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 19:50 (four years ago) link
We're lessy fussy about stuff like that over here. I'm sure there are regional names for hives, though I still don't really know what hives are... or is.
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 19:51 (four years ago) link
Lucky you who have never had a hive! They are utterly unrelated to hickeys aside from being skin welts visible to the naked eye.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 19:53 (four years ago) link
I'm sure I have had a hive and I'm sure I just called it a rash!
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 19:54 (four years ago) link
The NHS apparently calls them hives but I've never heard anyone use that word irl.
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/hives/
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 19:55 (four years ago) link
I suppose we should mention zits here as well.
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 19:56 (four years ago) link
plukes
― insecurity bear (sic), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 19:58 (four years ago) link
Exactly.
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 19:58 (four years ago) link
so this is a list of colloquial names for skin problems?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 20:00 (four years ago) link
i had a period of acute urticaria with some angioedema of the eyes and lips recently. lasted for about 4 weeks, responded to antihistamines, was (seemingly) idiopathic.
hive are not fun
― #FBPIRA (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 20:00 (four years ago) link
(xp) American names for skin problems.
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 21:08 (four years ago) link
Why is the song "Please Mr. Postman" and not "Please Mr. Mailman"?
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Friday, 6 December 2019 20:05 (four years ago) link
Good question.
https://i.imgur.com/0dqHJfl.jpg
― pplains, Friday, 6 December 2019 20:46 (four years ago) link
why not "carn postie"
― insecurity bear (sic), Friday, 6 December 2019 21:19 (four years ago) link
having A/C on 24/7 but keeping the butter in the fridge 24/7 anyway
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 22 May 2020 16:10 (four years ago) link
People keep butter in the fridge? (Assuming you mean butter that is in the butter dish to be used soon, not backup butter)
― Je55e, Friday, 22 May 2020 16:17 (four years ago) link
oh yes!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 22 May 2020 16:17 (four years ago) link
I don’t know if people who do that. It would make the butter hard to spread.
― Je55e, Friday, 22 May 2020 16:18 (four years ago) link
yes, yes it does!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 22 May 2020 16:18 (four years ago) link
Wait, Je55e?!! Hello!
― silby, Friday, 22 May 2020 16:19 (four years ago) link
we keep butter in the fridge and I don't really know why. I personally never spread it on anything and only use it for cooking.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 22 May 2020 16:28 (four years ago) link
I’m dumb
― brimstead, Friday, 22 May 2020 16:30 (four years ago) link
Well if you aren’t going to spread it keep it in the fridge. Put butter to spread on things on the counter. The Tao of butter.
― silby, Friday, 22 May 2020 16:30 (four years ago) link
In the Prime Grateful Dead doc, their british tour manager comments that Americans are unusually obsessed with defining "what america is" and I thought that was a good observation, although not much to do with butter
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 22 May 2020 16:30 (four years ago) link
https://www.countrylanekitchens.net/images/products/thumb/butter_bell_antique_white_linen_2.jpg
I have one of these butter bells, a little bit of water in the bottom and it stays fresh and spreadable for weeks
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 22 May 2020 16:38 (four years ago) link
― Je55e, Friday, 22 May 2020 17:29 (four years ago) link
I store butter in the refrigerator, but the dish of butter-in-use stays out on the counter, except during the hotter months of summer. i'mamericanbtw.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 22 May 2020 19:31 (four years ago) link
Steve Miller Band, "Greatest Hits 1974-1978"
― Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 June 2020 14:13 (four years ago) link
somebody get me a cheeseburger
― Dan I., Thursday, 11 June 2020 16:29 (four years ago) link
Lacrosse
― S-, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 10:52 (four years ago) link
Might want to google that one
― rob, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 11:37 (four years ago) link
La crosse, Wisconsin, maybe.
― pplains, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 12:46 (four years ago) link
Is that different from (non-ice) Hockey? Seems massive here in Belgium.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 14:15 (four years ago) link
1. biscuits & gravy
... and I'm proud to be an American!
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 14:18 (four years ago) link
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:03 (four years ago) link
Three Dog NightGrateful DeadCreedence Clearwater RevivalTom Petty & The HeartbreakersThe EaglesLynyrd SkynyrdBob Seger & the Silver Bullet BandKissBostonStevie Ray VaughanThe Doobie BrothersGrand Funk RailroadJohn FogertyJ Geils BandFoghatStyxCheap TrickREO SpeedwagonKansasGeorge Thorogood & the Destroyers
― Leighton Buzzword (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:36 (four years ago) link
there's an odd one out in that list (although it still works cos nobody likes them in their home country)
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:45 (four years ago) link
which
― Leighton Buzzword (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:51 (four years ago) link
Foghat are British
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:51 (four years ago) link
Foghat? Ohhh, they're British?
like, literally no one cares in the UK
― Leighton Buzzword (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:52 (four years ago) link
(and I'll be honest and say I got most of those names (incl. Foghat) from a list of 'Greatest American Bands')
― Leighton Buzzword (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:53 (four years ago) link
Lacrosse― S-, Wednesday, September 9, 2020 10:52 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglinkMight want to google that one― rob, Wednesday, September 9, 2020 11:37 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
― S-, Wednesday, September 9, 2020 10:52 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
― rob, Wednesday, September 9, 2020 11:37 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
What am I missing?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacrosse
Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America,
International lacrosseFurther information: List of national lacrosse organizations
Lacrosse has historically been played for the most part in Canada and the United States,
― Peter Greenaway's Fleetwood Mac (S-), Monday, 26 October 2020 04:43 (three years ago) link
It ain't no Ultimate Frisbee, brah.
― Pre-Raphaelite Brah (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 29 October 2020 10:10 (three years ago) link
Lacrosse was created long before "America" (or Canada and the United States) existed
― rob, Thursday, 29 October 2020 13:39 (three years ago) link
by Native Americans though...that's very much an American thing!
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 29 October 2020 13:57 (three years ago) link
The name is from French, reflecting that Europeans first observed and recorded it in French Canada, well before there was a US, as Rob notes.
If what you want to say is "lol preppy jock frat bros amirite," just say that
― Anaïs Ninja (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 October 2020 14:11 (three years ago) link
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, October 29, 2020 9:57 AM (nineteen minutes ago)
I am not Native American, but I have a hard time believing that they* would agree with this erasure of their cultural identity and political sovereignty.
* Obviously "they" are not a univocal monolith, but the Iroquois Nationals are called that for a reason.
If you want to make a thread cataloguing cultural practices created by the indigenous people of North America, I guess you could do that, but this is not that thread. For example, consider this post from upthread:
― rob, Thursday, 29 October 2020 14:21 (three years ago) link
I guess the question comes down to what "America" is. Don't think it's unreasonable to describe it geographically, as a land mass.
(true though most of the posts itt have taken the title to mean "United States" things)
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 29 October 2020 14:35 (three years ago) link
In that case, is Rio de Janeiro an American thing?
― Anaïs Ninja (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 October 2020 14:40 (three years ago) link
In that case, again, I guess it depends on what you mean by "American."
My Uruguayan gf would probably answer yes, and bristles at the interchangeability of "U.S." and "America"
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 29 October 2020 14:42 (three years ago) link
The Uruguayan States of America.
― peace, man, Thursday, 29 October 2020 14:45 (three years ago) link
Totally cool with this exapbded definition btw: tacos al carbon? American. Samba music? American. Pierre Trudeau? American. Cali Cartel? American. Falklands war? American. Chichen Itza, the Yukon gold rush, Macchu Picchu, poutine: American things.
― Anaïs Ninja (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 October 2020 14:46 (three years ago) link
I guess we're just pretending the continents in this hemisphere are not called "America" w/ different modifiers
Anyway, this is obv. not the thread for that...I'm just not sure the lacrosse post is "wrong"
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 29 October 2020 14:48 (three years ago) link
Hay mexicanos, norteamericanos y norte-norteamericanos.
― pplains, Thursday, 29 October 2020 14:48 (three years ago) link
Beringea, Fidel Castro, tomatoes, potatoes, ska, reggae, soca. American things.
Antonio Carlos Jobim, Bob Marley, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young. Americans.
(And by the way let us call out Ireland and Italy for appropriating our cuisine, and France for our smokes; you're welcome.)
― Anaïs Ninja (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 October 2020 14:53 (three years ago) link
what
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 29 October 2020 14:54 (three years ago) link
I'm just not sure the lacrosse post is "wrong"
Because 99% of the entries in this thread are about the United States, and I'm not sure why you would pretend otherwise
― rob, Thursday, 29 October 2020 15:13 (three years ago) link
Okay, go there if you like. The mesoamerican ball game practiced by pre-Columbian Mayans in what is now Mexico is as American as lacrosse.
(Mexico being in North America.)
Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh - Americans? How about Oscar Hijuelos? Joni Mitchell? Frida Kahlo?
(Not to mention that there is significant controversy about how many continents there are and the divisions between them. The distinction between Europe and Asia is way more fuzzy, in fact. Is Bibi Netanyahu an Asian?)
― Anaïs Ninja (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 October 2020 15:13 (three years ago) link
like I said, this isn't the thread for this, it's obv. "U.S" things and a repository for Tom D. cross-Atlantic peeves...but even in that context the idea
Macchu Picchu:U.S.::lacrosse:U.S.
is just p silly. I just don't think the poster -S is so far off. Lacross has origins in North America and is HUGE in the mid-Atlantic, not so much afaik in say, Spain, or Thailand
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 29 October 2020 15:26 (three years ago) link
it's also probably uniquely "American" in this context as discussed in the quid-ag thread:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/squash-lacrosse-niche-sports-ivy-league-admissions/616474/
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 29 October 2020 15:30 (three years ago) link
I mean, potatoes originate in south america, but I don't think if I said "loaded baked potato skins" was a U.S. American thing anyone would bat an eye.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 29 October 2020 15:44 (three years ago) link
BTW Oscar Hijuelos was born in Manhattan
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 29 October 2020 15:45 (three years ago) link
But clearly (1) this thread is meant to be US-centric and (2) the fact that Lacrosse originated as a meso-american ballgame doesn't really change the fact that modern day varsity and college lacrosse is very much a U.S. thing (as opposed to europe, asia, or even central and south america).
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 29 October 2020 15:49 (three years ago) link
yeah I mean the hamburger came from Hamburg but even there it persists as a symbol of things "American"
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 29 October 2020 15:53 (three years ago) link
the hamburger steak came from hamburg, the sandwich known as the hamburger - especially its iconic form as illustrated by the emoji 🍔 - is completely American in origin
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Thursday, 29 October 2020 15:55 (three years ago) link
Hadrian, I have no serious beef with you kinda threw down the gauntlet here with
Which makes me want to ask what continent Guatemala is a part of. Not a trick question. If Canada is included in what we're broadly calling "America," then so is, say, Honduras.
If we're gonna be sticklers in one direction (precolumbian French Canada counts as "America") it is reasonable to ask why, say, Mayan-era Yucatan does not.
― Anaïs Ninja (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 October 2020 15:55 (three years ago) link
a straightforward way to resolve this might be to just back up and say “oh I specifically meant lacrosse scholarships”
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Thursday, 29 October 2020 15:58 (three years ago) link
In other words
― Anaïs Ninja (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 October 2020 16:01 (three years ago) link
xxp You're right...I wouldn't contend that it doesn't
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 29 October 2020 16:08 (three years ago) link
Except Tombot I didn't meant that.
HVIII - Cool, peace
― Anaïs Ninja (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 October 2020 16:10 (three years ago) link
I've written and deleted a few responses, but really I'm just curious: why does it matter to you, Hadrian and man alive, that lacrosse be considered "American"? It's an important and enduring indigenous tradition—one that crosses the US/Canada border btw, so as bad as the "continental" argument YMP has shredded was, the "we meant the US after all" argument isn't perfect either—that has been lovingly borrowed/ violently appropriated/however you want to phrase it, but why then does America now get to claim ownership of it? I understand that internationally it may be perceived as such, but why let that uninformed perspective be deemed correct? Is tea a "British thing"? I'm sure to lots of people it is, but that doesn't make it true. And it's not like place names and other geographical phenomena are politically neutral or separate from the history of imperialism and colonialism. Ireland is one of the British Isles, can we call all Irish things "British"? I invite you to try that out here on ilxor.com!
Also, I don't know where everyone itt lives, and I honestly don't expect Europeans to know about all this, but imo this isn't a pedantic argument about geography or a check-in on whether or not lacrosse "feels" American. It's about colonization, cultural erasure, and the denial of indigenous sovereignty. Per the latter, the reason this is bothering me is this recent news: https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/iroquois-nationals-lacrosse-world-games-1.5717395
― rob, Thursday, 29 October 2020 16:21 (three years ago) link
As versions of the meal have been served for over a century, its origin remains ambiguous.[4] The popular book The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy by Hannah Glasse included a recipe in 1758 as "Hamburgh sausage", which suggested to serve it "roasted with toasted bread under it". A similar snack was also popular in Hamburg by the name "Rundstück warm" ("bread roll warm") in 1869 or earlier,[5] and supposedly eaten by many emigrants on their way to America, but may have contained roasted beefsteak rather than Frikadeller.
(but yeah ofc the miles-wide ceremonial lacrosse played by the Mohawk is probably as far afield from 20th c. lacrosse as these hamburgers are from the emoji)
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 29 October 2020 16:21 (three years ago) link
can we just take it back to fluffernutter and stand your ground?
Rob, it doesn't matter to me that lacrosse is considered American. I just think it's ambiguous and slippery enough that -S's claim can't be wholly dismissed.
I hate lacrosse btw
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 29 October 2020 16:24 (three years ago) link
Not really, I hate a specifically American culture around it
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 29 October 2020 16:25 (three years ago) link
Personally I just content myself with wondering how much better JFK's "I am a Berliner" speech would have been if it had been made in Hamburg
Or Frankfurt
Probably funnier in Frankfurt, imo
― Anaïs Ninja (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 October 2020 16:28 (three years ago) link
Mayor McCheese said it first
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 29 October 2020 16:31 (three years ago) link
I may have been led astray by Eddie Izzard here, but isn't "Berliner" not the German demonym for "people of Berlin" (iirc Izzard says it's a kind of doughnut?)
― rob, Thursday, 29 October 2020 16:33 (three years ago) link
(I guess I've found my role on this thread)
yes Rob that’s why we laugh about the speech
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Thursday, 29 October 2020 16:36 (three years ago) link
Rob, normally the urban-legend-level story is that he said "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a jelly doughnut) instead of "Ich bin Berliner" (I am from Berlin). It has also been pointed out that everyone would have understood what he meant anyway (there is voluminous stuff on Snopes and Straight Dope on This.)
Anyway
I hate a specifically American culture around it
I pretty much hate all American sports culture - especially youth sports and "collegiate" sports, so you're not alone. Again
But lacrosse is a tricky case, for the reasons Rob has outlined.
― Anaïs Ninja (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 October 2020 16:39 (three years ago) link
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Thursday, October 29, 2020 12:36 PM (five minutes ago)
ah-ha, yes, this makes much sense now
― rob, Thursday, 29 October 2020 16:46 (three years ago) link
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jfk-doughnut/
Kennedy’s famous line was penned by someone who was raised within Berlin itself and was an accomplished and highly regarded translator in his own right. In proclaiming “Ich bin ein Berliner,” therefore, JFK was no more referring to himself as a pastry than someone calling himself a “New Yorker” would have been understood by Americans as styling himself to be a magazine or a town car. Just as “I’m American” and “I’m an American” are both correct, so are “Ich bin ein Berliner” and “Ich bin Berliner.” (In fact, some German speakers would regard the former to be the more correct.)
― Anaïs Ninja (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 October 2020 16:47 (three years ago) link
YMP yeah I don't hate big dumb populist sports culture (I even participate in some of it), I just have special disdain for the classist insularity of school lacrosse, it always struck me as the asshole's sport of choice
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 29 October 2020 16:48 (three years ago) link
Ok
Yet more on the more pressing doughnut issue
https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kennedy-im-a-berliner-i-know-weve-done-this/256117/2
― Anaïs Ninja (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 October 2020 16:49 (three years ago) link
Moreover he did not give his speech on 31 December, the canonical date for consuming Berliner.
v disturbed to learn there's a purge specifically for cannibalism in Germany
― rob, Thursday, 29 October 2020 16:52 (three years ago) link
Heh. Btw I harp on the Berliner thing not because I care about pastry all that much, but because: like everyone here I hate lots of "American things."
But I get very cross about lazy/stupid/knee-jerk hates that aren't even accurate.
The reason "I am a jelly doughnut" resonates is because people love a good down-punching narrative like "haha Americans r dumb." Because, you see, he said he was a doughnut lol.
When it returns out that he didn't, and that it was written by an actual Berlin-raised German, it was perfectly grammatical, and it was understood in context....
People still want to be like "nah, I prefer the lazy 'Americans r dumb' narrative because it conforms to my preconceptions and supports my preferred interpretation. Please do not attempt to cloud the issue with facts."
That irks me. There are lots of serious things wrong with America (I feel pretty sure am on record about this). Calling ourselves doughnuts is not among them.
And imo, isn't it possible that focusing on "hah we think we're doughnuts" distracts from the real and more serious things?
Off soapbox
― Anaïs Ninja (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 October 2020 17:08 (three years ago) link
because people love a good down-punching narrative like "haha Americans r dumb."
Always thought people were clowning more on JFK, who just happened to be an American.
― pplains, Thursday, 29 October 2020 17:09 (three years ago) link
And yet his speech is widely regarded as being both grammatical and idiomatic (having been written by a native German speaker from Berlin)
And everyone understood him in context (cf. "I am a New Yorker" could be construed as "I am a magazine" but no serious person construes it that way)
And GAH why am I arguing this still
― Anaïs Ninja (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 October 2020 17:20 (three years ago) link
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― cointelamateur (m bison), Thursday, 29 October 2020 17:26 (three years ago) link
This is literally the first time I've ever heard anyone say it was about dumb Americans.
― Young Boys of Bernie (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 October 2020 17:32 (three years ago) link
had smores for the first time ever this summer when I went camping
pretty good
― Politically homely (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 29 October 2020 19:45 (three years ago) link
I have never thought about this before and I’m not German (although being Dutch I’m quite familiar with the German language, which is quite close to ours, also in this particular case), but my sense is that there is a subtle difference between saying “Ich bin Berliner” and “Ich bin ein Berliner”. “Ich bin Berliner” is more like an exclusionary statement: “I’m a Berlin guy first and foremost, that’s what and who I am, period”, whereas “Ich bin ein Berliner” implicitly leaves room for the fact that the speaker may have other affiliations too. Kennedy could have preceded it with “as well as being an American (as you all know), I’m also a Berliner”. So I think he/his speechwriter made the right choice.
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Thursday, 29 October 2020 20:29 (three years ago) link
...which is more or less what the Snopes piece says: "Just as “I’m American” and “I’m an American” are both correct, so are “Ich bin ein Berliner” and “Ich bin Berliner.” (In fact, some German speakers would regard the former to be the more correct for someone who was speaking figuratively, as Kennedy was.)"
Thanks, breastcrawl
― Anaïs Ninja (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 October 2020 20:45 (three years ago) link
I've noticed there appear to be two ways of pronouncing 'electoral' in the US depending on whether it's the electoral college that's being discussed. The latter seems to be pronounced the 'British' way: e-LEC-to-ral, but otherwise it seems to be pronounced e-lec-TO-ral?
― Young Boys of Bernie (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 November 2020 13:31 (three years ago) link
credenza
possibly also chifferobe, chiffonier, armoire, bureau, tallboy, lowboy. but definitely credenza.
― neith moon (ledge), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 12:10 (three years ago) link
vac-CINE
― Boring blighters bloaters (Tom D.), Monday, 16 November 2020 22:17 (three years ago) link
Do you rhyme it with dachshund?
― pplains, Monday, 16 November 2020 22:50 (three years ago) link
VAC-cine
― Boring blighters bloaters (Tom D.), Monday, 16 November 2020 22:54 (three years ago) link
I keep hearing the two different pronunciations on the news today.
― Boring blighters bloaters (Tom D.), Monday, 16 November 2020 22:55 (three years ago) link
I'm begging of you please don't take my man
― coupvfefe (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 00:21 (three years ago) link
No, that's vac-CINE surely?
― Boring blighters bloaters (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 00:26 (three years ago) link
Now I'm getting confused, I need to listen to a British version of "Jolene".
― Boring blighters bloaters (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 00:28 (three years ago) link
sleeping compartments on semi-trucks (or lorries as I would call them) that look like this https://www.core77.com/posts/59146/What-Do-Luxury-Sleeper-Cabs-for-Long-Haul-Truck-Drivers-Look-Like
― Politically homely (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 00:33 (three years ago) link
sem-eye trucks?
― Boring blighters bloaters (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 00:35 (three years ago) link
yes, sem-eye truck vs semmy-trailer seems like an American thing?
― @oneposter (💹) (sic), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 00:52 (three years ago) link
Stressing the second syllable seems like it could be an American thing - not only in words like 'vaccine' but in names like Bernard and Gerard. It's almost as if there's an attempt to make the words more interesting to say and hear because the British pronunciations of the same words sound so dull and flat, but I suspect it's more about a French influence on or origin of certain words which the British have been careful to expunge but which persists in American pronunciation.
― Boring blighters bloaters (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 01:28 (three years ago) link
like Bernard and Gerard.
was already thinking "this just sounds French tbh" at this point
I don't know if Americans do generally say Ber-NArd, but it definitely does sound fun when Killer Mike says "Senator Buh-NAHD Sanders"
― @oneposter (💹) (sic), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 01:38 (three years ago) link
Double down the bunless chicken burger.Have seen the image over the last decade or whatever and thought it a sign of American excess.Never seen it available this side of the Atlantic. So was surprised to see it on the menu in the local KFC recently. Which I don't remember having seen before not that I am in there much.KFC itself wasn't around in a lot of places here for years. I remember one being in a prominent spot in Dublin when I was first there but disappearing after a couple of years and wondering why a well known brand elsewhere was no longer visibly around.So now wondering if it was a short term offer and if irish customers aren't as pro cholesterol and type 2 diabetes etc as US ones. Or if it is a thing that has been around since they returned.I think the one I was in is about the only branch in town and is right on the outskirts.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 17 November 2020 06:21 (three years ago) link
ga-RARge
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 12:04 (three years ago) link
Jamie Roberts, better known by his stage name Blawan, is an English DJ and record producer from South Yorkshire.
― @oneposter (💹) (sic), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 12:19 (three years ago) link
sampled from the Fugees though
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 13:03 (three years ago) link
the uk emphasis on the first syllable of words is why they are incapable of producing plausible rap music
― na (NA), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 14:45 (three years ago) link
I want you to park that big Mack truckRight in this little garridge
― na (NA), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 14:47 (three years ago) link
“Plant manager Tom Hart organized a cash-buy-in, winner-take-all, betting pool for supervisors and managers to wager how many plant employees would test positive for COVID-19.” https://t.co/Nyra56dNJ5— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) November 19, 2020
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 19 November 2020 04:03 (three years ago) link
i think they think yorkshire pudding is like chocolate pudding.. pic.twitter.com/w1pj9vIsGO— my sexuality is dan levy's spooky eyebrows (@SaimaFerdows) November 19, 2020
― huge rant (sic), Saturday, 21 November 2020 08:01 (three years ago) link
Pepperidge Farm
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 26 December 2020 21:48 (three years ago) link
fuckin milanos.... we should do a poll
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 26 December 2020 21:50 (three years ago) link
lol of course it's been doneFAVORITE PEPPERIDGE FARM COOKIE
and the cookies themselves have their own dedicated thread:Pepperidge Farm® Milano® Cookies
and there's a search and destroy, created pre-poll:Pepperidge Farm: S/D
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 26 December 2020 21:52 (three years ago) link
i was given milano 'slices' with fuckin...... pretzel crumbs in the dark chocolate and it broke my brain with delight
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 26 December 2020 21:53 (three years ago) link
heckling "freebird" at bands
― Dusty Benelux (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 20:29 (three years ago) link
I've said this before, but it's not heckling. We really want to hear them play Freebird!
― pplains, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 00:50 (three years ago) link
The joke is that there’s no such song as “Freebird”, right? Or has someone written a song based on the joke?
― Canon in Deez (silby), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 00:57 (three years ago) link
more than one way to skynard that bird
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 02:32 (three years ago) link
Has "Freebird" reasserted itself after it was seemingly replaced with "More Cowbell"?
― Vernon Locke, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 23:23 (three years ago) link
I think there's a bit of difficulty disentangling the Pogues from all the horseshit Irish pride mook shit like Dropkick Murphys― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, April 17, 2021 9:36 AM (forty-nine minutes ago)
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, April 17, 2021 9:36 AM (forty-nine minutes ago)
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Saturday, 17 April 2021 00:31 (three years ago) link
I'm an American thing posting from downtown Sydney, quarantine day 12 of 14 and it looks like there was a miscalculation and I'm actually released a day early, wednesday not thursday, so... which hopeful people are in Sydney? Where do I drink?
― Milton Parker, Monday, 7 June 2021 02:21 (three years ago) link
This place belongs in this thread, and is in Sydney
https://shadypinessaloon.com/
― Peter Greenaway's Fleetwood Mac (S-), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 04:36 (three years ago) link
Just like every Outback restaurant is true-to-life with its framed stock photography of kangaroos, I think your Shady Pines hits the US on the head here with its authentic reproduction of
https://i.imgur.com/iMokqEG.jpg
albums by the band America on prominent display. Can't hardly walk into a Denny's without seeing one of those things.
― pplains, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 12:33 (three years ago) link
SHADY PINES, MA!
― Notes on Scampo (tokyo rosemary), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 12:48 (three years ago) link
Where is the lanai in that photo?
― Notes on Scampo (tokyo rosemary), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 12:51 (three years ago) link
Grackles
― ledge, Friday, 24 September 2021 12:38 (three years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 24 September 2021 13:19 (three years ago) link
Pronouncing Leslie as Lesslie and Les as Less... at least they did so in the episode of King of Queens I saw this morning.
― Des Weerelds Dool-om-berg ont-doold op Dool-in-bergh (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 16:56 (two years ago) link
I. . . don’t know how else it would be pronounced?/American
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 18:29 (two years ago) link
Les pronounced lez, as in lesbian.
― Kim Kimberly, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 18:38 (two years ago) link
I had no idea!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 20:24 (two years ago) link
I've never thought about it, but I pronounce it lez-LEE.
But Les is Less.
― pplains, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 20:37 (two years ago) link
So then, are we to conclude that the 'Lez' said, the better?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 20:47 (two years ago) link
https://networkonair.com/3939-large_default/sez-les-volume-4.jpg
― Des Weerelds Dool-om-berg ont-doold op Dool-in-bergh (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 22:40 (two years ago) link
I assume that Les in the US is more commonly short for Lester, in which case pronouncing it Less would make sense?
― Des Weerelds Dool-om-berg ont-doold op Dool-in-bergh (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 22:43 (two years ago) link
Actually I've just watched a YouTube of Howard Stern talking about Lez-lie West.
― Des Weerelds Dool-om-berg ont-doold op Dool-in-bergh (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 22:47 (two years ago) link
In Acadia, they pronounce Leslie, "Lay-Lay".
― pplains, Thursday, 28 October 2021 00:22 (two years ago) link
Or not.
― pplains, Thursday, 28 October 2021 00:23 (two years ago) link
Sir Lay Patterson
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 28 October 2021 01:19 (two years ago) link
i pronounce it lezlie. for les i'm kind of halfway between s and z tbh
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Thursday, 28 October 2021 01:23 (two years ago) link
lez for everythingexcept for wkrp’s les nessman ie buckeye newshawkand leslie knopethe only “less”es that i recognize
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 October 2021 01:37 (two years ago) link
Knope is a lezlie in my headcanon tbh. Like I think I have autoreplaced it on hearing, in the moment, on the fly
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 28 October 2021 01:43 (two years ago) link
lol
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 October 2021 02:24 (two years ago) link
High-fructose corn syrup
― Lee626, Thursday, 28 October 2021 13:45 (two years ago) link
https://www.ohio-put-in-bay.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Barbershop-Quartet.jpg
― Des Weerelds Dool-om-berg ont-doold op Dool-in-bergh (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 October 2021 14:40 (two years ago) link
Wait, so you're saying that in other nations you get your hair cut without corny-ass a capella singing in four-part harmony?
Like what, you just get your hair cut in SILENCE?
Like SAVAGES?
― that of a giant Slor (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 28 October 2021 14:44 (two years ago) link
I've seen and heard barbershop quartets in all sorts of places in the U.S. - and sang in one myself for a few months - but have never heard of one in an actual barber shop.
― Lee626, Thursday, 28 October 2021 16:48 (two years ago) link
Man, I wish!
― pplains, Thursday, 28 October 2021 16:55 (two years ago) link
One of Enoch Powell's most famous quips was prompted by an encounter with the resident House of Commons barber: a notoriously chatty character, who enjoyed treating captive clients to his views on politics and the state of the world. When Powell went in for a trim, the barber asked the standard question: "How should I cut your hair, Sir?" "In silence," was Powell's instant riposte.Even Powell's political enemies have usually admitted, a bit grudgingly, that this was a rather good joke. But what they haven't realised is that it has a history going back more than 2,000 years. Almost exactly the same gag features in a surviving Roman joke book: the Philogelos (or Laughter Lover), a collection of wisecracks probably compiled in the fourth or fifth century AD. As with most such collections, some of the jokes included were already decidedly old by the time they were anthologised. In fact, we can trace the "chatty barber" gag back to Archelaus, a fifth-century BC king of Macedon. The "how should I cut your hair?" question was standard even then. And Archelaus is supposed to have replied to his own garrulous barber, "In silence."
Even Powell's political enemies have usually admitted, a bit grudgingly, that this was a rather good joke. But what they haven't realised is that it has a history going back more than 2,000 years. Almost exactly the same gag features in a surviving Roman joke book: the Philogelos (or Laughter Lover), a collection of wisecracks probably compiled in the fourth or fifth century AD. As with most such collections, some of the jokes included were already decidedly old by the time they were anthologised. In fact, we can trace the "chatty barber" gag back to Archelaus, a fifth-century BC king of Macedon. The "how should I cut your hair?" question was standard even then. And Archelaus is supposed to have replied to his own garrulous barber, "In silence."
― Des Weerelds Dool-om-berg ont-doold op Dool-in-bergh (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 October 2021 17:54 (two years ago) link
Row Houses. (Which are terrace houses?)
― 29 facepalms, Thursday, 28 October 2021 17:58 (two years ago) link
Yes, they are terraced houses.
― Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 28 October 2021 18:07 (two years ago) link
But why are they called "rowhouses" when they're in cities but "townhouses" when the same type of structure is in a suburb?
― Lee626, Thursday, 28 October 2021 19:18 (two years ago) link
That is answered at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townhouse
― visiting, Thursday, 28 October 2021 20:19 (two years ago) link
Yeah rowhouses are a specific thing and are (subtly) distinct from townhouses. It's not just about where they are - I have lived in places where both exist in close proximity.
I have spent time in both and can feel the difference, but there is a bit of "I know it when I see it."
― gin and catatonic (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 28 October 2021 21:13 (two years ago) link
The thing is, some urban rowhouses, like these in Washington DC, don't meet the Wikipedia definition of what constitutes a rowhouse rather than a townhouse, even though they look like rowhouses and would likely be called that. I have no idea whether they share a foundation or have double walls between addresses, but they certainly have townhouse-style separate roofs and facades that don't look like your neighbor's. It does seem to me that old/pre-automotive era = rowhouse, newer/larger = townhouse. And usually that correlates with city vs. suburbs.
― Lee626, Thursday, 28 October 2021 22:30 (two years ago) link
Now that I think of it, what makes it feel "townhouse" to me is a parking lot out front, and the homes usually being in a development often with a name for each one. Rowhouses don't have parking lots out front (and usually not to the side or rear either), just a one or two lane street with parallel parking (if there's parking at all). But that has nothing to do with the buildings themselves, and again it correlates with city vs. suburbs.
― Lee626, Thursday, 28 October 2021 22:45 (two years ago) link
near-random seeming combinations of foods that usually involve melted cheese, bbq sauce, and too many other fat and salt sources combined in one place but are also supposed to sound vaguely creative or sophisticated
"Try our roasted-red-pepper-pesto-ranch bbq chicken and jack cheese flatbread pizza!"
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 29 October 2021 01:27 (two years ago) link
Aka Guy Fieri cuisine
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 29 October 2021 04:22 (two years ago) link
ZEE
― Lee626, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 16:31 (two years ago) link
there's a moving van I drive past at least once a week in Cambridge called "EEZEE Movers" and it just makes me sad, did they use to be called "EZ Movers" but then had too many people saying "why are you called EE ZED? hur hur"?
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 16:40 (two years ago) link
dj EZ to thread ("dj ee-zed")
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 16:58 (two years ago) link
QRS!TUV!W, X, Y AND......zed
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 16:59 (two years ago) link
will note that I have seen verified English people referring to their birthday as a "b-day" recently, which spins my brain around something rotten, maybe they just haven't heard of bidets? no other explanation comes to mind.
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 17:01 (two years ago) link
in China the alphabet song goesA B C D E F GH I J K L M NO P Q R S T U VW X Y and Zwhich is wrong
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 17:03 (two years ago) link
b-day rhymes with DJ, not g'day.
― pplains, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 18:09 (two years ago) link
UK vs US pronounciation of bidet
― Kim Kimberly, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 18:20 (two years ago) link
So does bidet? Unless that's another American thing?
― Des Weerelds Dool-om-berg ont-doold op Dool-in-bergh (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 18:21 (two years ago) link
(xp) LOL
I'm usually up on US/UK English usage and pronunciation differences, but didn't know about BEEday. Note to self: don't contract "birthday" when i'm in the UK.
― Lee626, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 18:34 (two years ago) link
Conversely, if you travel to the US don't say to your hosts "I gotta use the toilet" - sounds a bit crude to Americans where a toilet is only the commode itself, not the room its in.
― Lee626, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 18:38 (two years ago) link
"Where's the bog?"
― Des Weerelds Dool-om-berg ont-doold op Dool-in-bergh (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 18:39 (two years ago) link
That'll work in America; not sure about Australia...
― Lee626, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 18:40 (two years ago) link
“Where’s Rob?”“He’s in the toilet”
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 18:57 (two years ago) link
American thing: flying to Dallas because you heard on Facebook that JFK Jr will miraculously come to life make an important announcement at the AT&T Discovery Plaza.
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 19:00 (two years ago) link
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/joe-biden-mispronounces-glasgow-glass-25355010
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 November 2021 10:28 (two years ago) link
That's J.B. for ya... Dunkin' on your big Glasgow and then getting out of there.
― pplains, Tuesday, 9 November 2021 14:56 (two years ago) link
First the farting and now this, is there going to be a war?
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 9 November 2021 15:04 (two years ago) link
Thinking that Tom Holland can't pronounce croissant.
― for 200 anyone can receive a dud nvidia (ledge), Monday, 24 January 2022 19:43 (two years ago) link
"In back of".
― Someone left a space telescope out in the rain (Tom D.), Monday, 24 January 2022 19:48 (two years ago) link
Hanging out in back of.
― dark end of the st. maud (sic), Monday, 24 January 2022 20:41 (two years ago) link
“Where’s Rob?”
“He’s in the toilet”
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, November 2, 2021 2:57 PM (two months ago)
creepy
― rob, Monday, 24 January 2022 20:42 (two years ago) link
83. “thank you for your service”― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 11 February 2018 09:28 (four years ago) linkI don’t think I’ll ever get over realising that this frankly demented practice is widespread over there and not just something Fox News weirdos do
― ok what the fuck is happening in the uk (rain) (wins), Sunday, 27 February 2022 05:27 (two years ago) link
I need to start saying this to customer-facing retail people. They get shit on worse than anybody.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Sunday, 27 February 2022 07:48 (two years ago) link
"thank you for your service"
"and also with you"
"let us pray"
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 27 February 2022 11:06 (two years ago) link
Well, they have a type
― Johnny Mathis der Maler (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 27 February 2022 16:42 (two years ago) link
xp to Chris yeah, or like when you meet a librarian or something. Someone who makes a positive contribution to the worldI mean it would still be slightly weird
― ok what the fuck is happening in the uk (rain) (wins), Sunday, 27 February 2022 18:14 (two years ago) link
letting active service military first on planes! Fuck that Prussian shit.
to me, this is a cheap gesture of gratitude. after all, the modern US military is a bunch of poor kids who volunteered to be cannon fodder, just so that middle class kids don't have to be conscripted and shot at. this frees up the US war machine to pursue global domination with much less political blowback. a win-win-win, all around!
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 27 February 2022 19:19 (two years ago) link
does anyone outside of America say "have a blessed day" because that is super common.
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 February 2022 04:17 (two years ago) link
OMG no!
― Meet the Irish Queer Archive Poet In Residence (Tom D.), Monday, 28 February 2022 07:37 (two years ago) link
I've only ever heard that from older Black ladies, although I could imagine evangelicals using it.
― peace, man, Monday, 28 February 2022 12:39 (two years ago) link
people say it all the time. like at the checkout counter. it’s creepy as fuck.
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 28 February 2022 12:56 (two years ago) link
I've gotten the blessing when getting off an elevator, no other conversation involved, just a shot in the back from a stranger causing me to turn and say "uh, thanks?"
― BrianB, Monday, 28 February 2022 13:22 (two years ago) link
P sure the correct response is “hallelujah!!!!”
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 28 February 2022 13:28 (two years ago) link
p sure it’s “achoo!”
― ok what the fuck is happening in the uk (rain) (wins), Monday, 28 February 2022 13:39 (two years ago) link
"free refills"
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 28 February 2022 13:50 (two years ago) link
The correct response is "Inshallah".
― Meet the Irish Queer Archive Poet In Residence (Tom D.), Monday, 28 February 2022 14:21 (two years ago) link
Add shrimp to any entrée - $4.95
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 28 February 2022 14:50 (two years ago) link
Half Sandwich and [other lunch item]
― Pre-Raphaelite Brah (King Boy Pato), Friday, 4 March 2022 07:45 (two years ago) link
Shoehorning every military acronym into a ridiculous word. Brought on by
https://www.navy.mil/DesktopModules/ArticleCS/Print.aspx?PortalId=1&ModuleId=523&Article=2250056
― Peter Greenaway's Fleetwood Mac (S-), Monday, 7 March 2022 12:29 (two years ago) link
hang on snoopie, snoopie hang on
― jenny from the blockchain (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 7 March 2022 14:11 (two years ago) link
white clawla croix
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 7 April 2022 20:55 (two years ago) link
Mormons
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 7 April 2022 21:07 (two years ago) link
"We proudly serve Pepsi products."
― Pre-Raphaelite Brah (King Boy Pato), Friday, 8 April 2022 11:36 (two years ago) link
In "The Looming Tower," there's a section on Sayid Qutb that also quotes Qutb's own descriptions of his time in the United States. One of the observations he made was that Americans would eat pretty much any combination of flavors without regard for taste. I don't remember what it was specifically, but e describes actually inventing a fake Egyptian food combination and convincing an American student to try it, which she does and claims to like it.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 8 April 2022 12:11 (two years ago) link
the most american photo doesn’t exi- pic.twitter.com/LO5fHpKHKQ— Adam (@adamgreattweet) April 7, 2022
― mookieproof, Friday, 8 April 2022 18:37 (two years ago) link
actually inventing a fake Egyptian food combination and convincing an American student to try it, which she does and claims to like it.
It was probably good
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 8 April 2022 18:38 (two years ago) link
In about 1979, a family in our town had a foreign exchange student from rural Argentina. His name was Paco.
Someone decided that it would be an amusing prank to tell Paco that Americans like ketchup on their pancakes, and that this was the normal American thing to do. So, for like seven months, everybody pretended to love ketchup on pancakes. (This was the suburbs before cable TV; we were bored and needed to make our own fun.)
It was a simpler time, and a less connected time. Nowadays a prank like that couldn't work, because internet. But I am curious whether there was ever a group of people in Argentina who believed that ketchup on pancakes was the style in America.
― So's your imam (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 8 April 2022 18:57 (two years ago) link
Slightly apropos: in about 1965, my American stepmother was studying in what was then West Germany. There was a German woman in her dorm who had previously regarded herself as an expert on American culture... before the arrival of an actual American (my stepmother). So this German woman felt offended and displaced, but she was sometimes confidently wrong.
Anyway, the story goes that my stepmother once made popcorn. The jealous German woman reportedly said, "Ach, I know what that is. You put milk on it and eat it for breakfast."
So. Not sure what it all means but people and habits remain a fascinating mystery
― So's your imam (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 8 April 2022 19:07 (two years ago) link
Those both sound hella gross.
― peace, man, Friday, 8 April 2022 19:22 (two years ago) link
We had a German exchange student who ate ham sandwiches with ketchup for breakfast every morning. I was never sure whether that was something he did back home or something he adopted here because he thought it was "American."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 8 April 2022 19:28 (two years ago) link
Germans are more than capable of doing that sort of stuff on their own. I mean Currywurst ffs.
― Peter Greenaway's Fleetwood Mac (S-), Monday, 11 April 2022 05:23 (two years ago) link
― So's your imam (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, April 8, 2022 1:57 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink
I lol'd hard at this -- "Haha, jokes on you, we don't eat ketchup on pancakes (except for the past seven months straight)"
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 11 April 2022 13:14 (two years ago) link
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, April 8, 2022 7:11 AM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink
this just sounds like ... being polite? is being polite an american thing?
― na (NA), Monday, 11 April 2022 13:17 (two years ago) link
Well, according to Israelis it is IME. Not sure how similar Egyptians are in that regard. But I once got a good inadvertent laugh from hosts because they made me coffee that was all fucked up (they made it "mud" style with the grounds in the cup, but the grounds failed to sink) and I didn't immediately tell them and pretended it was ok.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 11 April 2022 13:20 (two years ago) link
IME you do get some endearingly earnest Americans who call everyone 'sir' and say 'excuse me' a lot.
― Rick O'Shea (Tom D.), Monday, 11 April 2022 14:19 (two years ago) link
(xxp)
― Rick O'Shea (Tom D.), Monday, 11 April 2022 14:20 (two years ago) link
ovens where the top heating element doesn’t come on unless you’re “broiling”? this is seemingly normal??
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 11 April 2022 18:11 (two years ago) link
Do you mean the grill?
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/345769/why-do-we-say-under-the-grill-not-above-or-on-the-grill
― Peter Greenaway's Fleetwood Mac (S-), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 08:01 (two years ago) link
lol yes although i refrained from using that word because of the potential for confusioni just wonder how anything ever gets nicely browned on the top in america if the top heating element doesn’t come on.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 19 April 2022 08:47 (two years ago) link
You take a spatula and flip it over.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 19 April 2022 10:01 (two years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 19 April 2022 10:53 (two years ago) link
I've seen in various recipes to bake something for a while and then turn on the broiler for the last x minutes or something.
My current oven doesn't have a bottom heating element, only a top one. But curiously, there is also a setting for "broil". We weren't thinking about it too much when we picked it out because it was an emergency purchase. I've never quite figured out what's going on.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 19 April 2022 11:46 (two years ago) link
yeah I do this all the time. you can also brown tops by drizzling olive oil on them or what have you
― rob, Tuesday, 19 April 2022 15:37 (two years ago) link
Making the top part of something hot is only going to burn the roof of your mouth off more.
― pplains, Tuesday, 19 April 2022 15:57 (two years ago) link
As an American, this is why I usually cover hot food with either ice cream or ketchup.
― pplains, Tuesday, 19 April 2022 15:58 (two years ago) link
"Sports bars" that actually don't care about sport, the term 'sports bar' now just means "we have hamburgers, hot dogs, Miller Lite, Bud lite, and there will be a few people in MAGA hats here"
― Deez NFTs (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 15:59 (two years ago) link
case in point the one sports bar near me that has 30+ televisions, all randomly set to the same two or three sporting events that nobody is watching, and when you ask to change one of them, it is apparently a ritual on par with summoning the skullthrone of Satan, and you will get a look and the tv will eventually get changed 35 minutes later
― Deez NFTs (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 16:00 (two years ago) link
the broiler performs a different function than the bottom heating elements. The bottom elements and the oven cavity (insulation, vents, fans, airflow) are designed to achieve a uniform cavity temperature for slowly cooking or baking. It might be easier or faster to achieve this with top and bottom heating elements, but then you lose the extra function of broiling, and Burger King thinks broiling is important.
― Michael Flatley's (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 16:21 (two years ago) link
also, most american oven vessels are lidless. The most common one with a lid is labeled "Dutch", so that we can blame them for the extra washing. We could design a bottomless and therefore symmetric vessel, but then we'd create new problems due to the gravity over here. It's better to just put the heating elements on the bottom.
― Michael Flatley's (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 16:26 (two years ago) link
I wonder how you keep a quiche crust from becoming charcoal while waiting for the custard to set with top heating elements. Do you cut a foil ring to protect the crust? Do you wear one around your neck to keep it handy?
― Michael Flatley's (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 16:31 (two years ago) link
simple - we don't eat quiche
― Deez NFTs (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 16:41 (two years ago) link
I'm sorry, I meant egg pie. We eat egg pie here.
― Michael Flatley's (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 16:58 (two years ago) link
the top element ime of modern ovens actually comprises two elements, only one of which switches on for normal baking. grill/broil switches them both on for maximum charrage.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 19 April 2022 17:30 (two years ago) link
"Broiling"
― Was Hitler a Hobbit? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 17:45 (two years ago) link
i mean
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 19 April 2022 17:45 (two years ago) link
if you’re going to broil might as well go straight to a full-on broast
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 19 April 2022 17:46 (two years ago) link
the best broilers produce a uniformly high temperature over almost the entire oven cavity ceiling. 2 elements will likely undersample this desired temperature profile, and I reject the "modern" 2 element idea as an improvement and label it a scam.
― Michael Flatley's (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 17:51 (two years ago) link
the oven is the anus of cooking
― Deez NFTs (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 17:57 (two years ago) link
what is a fever if not your anus oven attempting to cook off an infection's source?
― Michael Flatley's (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 18:18 (two years ago) link
This conversation is strange to me because my oven doesn't have a top heating element. It has a bottom heating element (that heats the oven for baking and roasting).
The broiler is a drawer beneath the heating element. So when I want to get the top of something all crispalicious, that's where I put it.
― Fifty Centaur (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 20:00 (two years ago) link
Is it a gas oven? I had a gas oven like that in my first apartment. It lacked a pilot light. I managed to avoid blowing myself up, although I did have at least one close call.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 20:02 (two years ago) link
Gas oven, yes. Electric ovens are generally pretty bad because of the time they take to heat up and cool down - wasting ridic amounts of heat and energy in the process.
Also, where I live, pretty much every bar is a sports bar. If you go to a bar there are televisions, tuned to sporting events. Sometimes there is one tuned to news, but without sound or captions you have no idea what they're talking about.
It's just visual chewing gum and it's stupid, but it's what people seem to expect these days.
I play a lot of music in bars, and I have just come to accept that when people applaud, it's more likely that they're applauding a sporting accomplishment that took place on a television slightly above my head, rather than the music. I am at peace with this.
― Fifty Centaur (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 20:07 (two years ago) link
Jesus, yes. Some of them have so many screens, you cannot escape seeing them, no matter where you sit or which direction you face. I find it as oppressive and overwhelming as a casino.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 20:10 (two years ago) link
abruptly end your song whenever the home team scores.
― Michael Flatley's (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 21:08 (two years ago) link
abruptly end your song and say "that should do it for us tonight" whenever the away team scores
― Michael Flatley's (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 21:12 (two years ago) link
“This conversation is strange to me because my oven doesn't have a top heating element” it’s strange to me that you lack it, this is my point. re separate “broiler” drawer underneath the main cavity of the oven that uses that bottom heating element as.. the top! (ta da! broiling!) i mean.. talk about an inefficient use of space. that’s where i keep my baking tins etc
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 19 April 2022 22:26 (two years ago) link
imo it is most efficient to use the available oven space for heating shit up, i.e. doing oven things. we store our baking tins in the kitchen cabinet where all such things are stored. But Americans also do laundry in the laundry room.
― Michael Flatley's (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 22:59 (two years ago) link
the Flavor Pro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52eQJ5QpfEg
― beepy fridges (sic), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 05:22 (two years ago) link
innoculate your turkeys against blandness
― Michael Flatley's (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 15:47 (two years ago) link
inject Pfizer'S THICK SAUCE
― Michael Flatley's (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 15:48 (two years ago) link
Cause all I ever haveRedemption song
― Deez NFTs (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 18:22 (two years ago) link
I carry around a a TV-B-Gone for this very reason. I don't get a chance to use it much around here, but whenever I'm in NYC or some of the sports bar zones of LA I try to shut off as many TVs as possible.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 21 April 2022 05:23 (two years ago) link
Actually that Flavor Pro video brought one up. 'Tailgating' is a party in North America, as opposed to driving dangerously?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailgatinghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailgate_party
― Peter Greenaway's Fleetwood Mac (S-), Saturday, 23 April 2022 06:29 (two years ago) link
it's both, tbh
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Saturday, 23 April 2022 06:33 (two years ago) link
Three fourths
― gop on ya gingrich (wins), Saturday, 30 April 2022 11:23 (two years ago) link
The Firth of Quarter
― peace, man, Sunday, 1 May 2022 22:48 (two years ago) link
they say "dove" for the past tense of "dive" & "shined" for the past tense of "shine"
― the coming of prince kajagoogoo (doo rag), Sunday, 1 May 2022 23:46 (two years ago) link
Asking about the resort's tipping policy
― Pre-Raphaelite Brah (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 12 May 2022 03:19 (two years ago) link
not using electric kettles
― Roz, Thursday, 12 May 2022 03:49 (two years ago) link
i use one every day
― aegis philbin (crüt), Thursday, 12 May 2022 04:13 (two years ago) link
At restaurants, disappearing with your credit card instead of bringing a handheld terminal directly to you.
― DAMAGED by Black Flat (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 12 May 2022 05:56 (two years ago) link
“Is there a Starbucks nearby?”“Sorry, no.”[extremely disappointed sound]
― Pre-Raphaelite Brah (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 15 May 2022 02:58 (two years ago) link
xp
I've been getting dramatically more handheld terminals in the last couple years
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Sunday, 15 May 2022 03:02 (two years ago) link
“Can I get an ice water?”
― Pre-Raphaelite Brah (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 15 May 2022 03:10 (two years ago) link
these are excellent KBP
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 15 May 2022 09:47 (two years ago) link
Telling sunny the other day how I figured out The Sixth Sense spoiler because, wait, why are they taking a bus out to the suburbs?
― pplains, Monday, 16 May 2022 12:46 (two years ago) link
several hours in transit at an airport is a goldmine for this thread
― Pre-Raphaelite Brah (King Boy Pato), Monday, 16 May 2022 12:52 (two years ago) link
yes yes it is
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 16 May 2022 12:59 (two years ago) link
― Roz, Thursday, 12 May 2022 03:49 (four days ago) link
Never had an electric kettle until dating/marrying a non-American. Life-changing device, will never go back.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 16 May 2022 13:56 (two years ago) link
"But where will I plug in my VCR?"*pulls cans of Dinty Moore beef stew out of camo cargo shorts*
― Michael Flatley's (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 16 May 2022 14:33 (two years ago) link
getting a bowl of chowder on a cold day
― Pre-Raphaelite Brah (King Boy Pato), Friday, 20 May 2022 18:20 (two years ago) link
Is that much ice tea drunk? What does it consist of? (Long Island notwithstanding)
― Peter Greenaway's Fleetwood Mac (S-), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 14:33 (two years ago) link
What does it consist of?
tea, ice. sometimes lemon. sometimes sugar.
i don't understand the question your honor
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 25 May 2022 15:30 (two years ago) link
Get yourself an Arnold Palmer for a real thirst quencher, son.
― Pre-Raphaelite Brah (King Boy Pato), Friday, 27 May 2022 02:36 (two years ago) link
Okay I had an Arizona brand iced tea today. This is what I'm talking about.
https://imgur.com/a/uQVDkO9
King Boy, thanks for the Arnold Palmer tip!
― Bellend Sebastian (S-), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 13:10 (two years ago) link
dirty sugar water
― Herby Dutch Baby (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 16 June 2022 01:06 (two years ago) link
sugar: the real american drink
― Keep the Aspidistra TikToking (King Boy Pato), Friday, 17 June 2022 10:13 (two years ago) link
Our lack of electric kettles baffles Europeans.In Europe, they make enormous sense because they're so much faster than using the stove. In the USA, not so much.In related news, household outlets in the UK and Europe run at 220-240 volts. In the USA, it's 120. https://t.co/rKHmL1Hddh— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) June 29, 2022
― Je55e, Wednesday, 29 June 2022 10:48 (two years ago) link
cottage cheese
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 15 July 2022 08:08 (two years ago) link
half & half
under armour
ranch dressing
― spacedaddy, Saturday, 16 July 2022 21:57 (two years ago) link
each person at the table adding dressing to their own salad from the bottle
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 16 July 2022 22:05 (two years ago) link
The not using electric kettles is weird. I can’t remember having a non electric kettle in like the last 2 decades. Do USA’ians really not use them?? Poor people.
― Jeff, Saturday, 16 July 2022 22:20 (two years ago) link
I crank on the gas burner (I believe y'all call it a "hob"?) every morning, it's true
however, our roommate uses an electric kettle upstairs for her morning coffee.
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Saturday, 16 July 2022 22:47 (two years ago) link
I'll probably get an electric kettle soon, but the reason I haven't yet is just that I don't really have room for it. The regular water kettle just lives on the burner of my gas stove. Counter space is precious.
― beard papa, Sunday, 17 July 2022 02:13 (two years ago) link
Also, no one I know drinks tea regularly. (Probably bc it is disappointment juice?)
― Je55e, Sunday, 17 July 2022 03:59 (two years ago) link
I come across more "instant hot water" devices in the usa. We have an electric kettle used for some coffee styles and tea. I think they are popular. You can buy one at Target.
― Herby Dutch Baby (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 17 July 2022 05:21 (two years ago) link
this thread is about american things iircnot european things
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 17 July 2022 09:39 (two years ago) link
Ranch dressing is everywhere, but french dressing feels secretly more american. Ketchup base, cups of sugar, etc.
― Herby Dutch Baby (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 17 July 2022 14:33 (two years ago) link
usa thing: good mexican food outside of mexico
― Herby Dutch Baby (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 17 July 2022 14:40 (two years ago) link
Also, no one I know drinks tea regularly. (Probably bc it is disappointment juice?) _The not using electric kettles is weird. I can’t remember having a non electric kettle in like the last 2 decades. Do USA’ians really not use them?? Poor people._What do you use it for?
― Jeff, Sunday, 17 July 2022 15:35 (two years ago) link
feel like we've been over the electric kettle thing a million times and why it makes sense that they haven't caught on in the US (much, anyway - my tea-obsessed mother has used one for many years)
― ✖, Sunday, 17 July 2022 15:54 (two years ago) link
It's such an internet dead horse but I still don't get why it is such a big deal. Like, water is water. It gets heated. It doesn't taste different based on the method of heating. If you can't detect a difference in a blind taste test you should maybe just be quiet on this boring shibboleth for a while.
My kitchen is tiny and very short of both counter space and electrical outlets, hence I hate single-use appliances.
― your marshmallows may vary (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 17 July 2022 17:28 (two years ago) link
It doesn't taste different based on the method of heating. If you can't detect a difference in a blind taste test you should maybe just be quiet on this boring shibboleth for a while.
🧐
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Sunday, 17 July 2022 18:00 (two years ago) link
I proof pizza dough in our electric kettle
― Herby Dutch Baby (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 17 July 2022 18:56 (two years ago) link
brown some london broil in the ole kettle
― Herby Dutch Baby (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 17 July 2022 19:01 (two years ago) link
if you heat water in the microwave it's either not hot enough or it has boiled itself all over the inside of your microwave
― Sudden Birdnet Thus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 17 July 2022 19:24 (two years ago) link
I've always been a microwave refusist but could do with borrowing one for tomorrow
― calzino, Sunday, 17 July 2022 19:29 (two years ago) link
word
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 17 July 2022 20:16 (two years ago) link
key to microwave happiness is getting the smallest one possible that just sits on the counter. A large microwave hanging over the stove with an ersatz fan will be the death of all kitchen goodtimes.
― Herby Dutch Baby (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 18 July 2022 00:58 (two years ago) link
If you have a stove you can put a teakettle (or even a saucepan) on it, twist the knob, boom, hot water. Like, it's already there, it's the same device that you use to make other things hot. This is not even a little bit complicated.
― your marshmallows may vary (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 18 July 2022 01:06 (two years ago) link
I can’t think of one thing I would use a microwave for that my toaster oven/stove-top won’t do better. Haven’t had one in decades.
― beard papa, Monday, 18 July 2022 01:56 (two years ago) link
― your marshmallows may vary (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:06 PM (fifty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
An electric kettle boils much faster, and some of them will also keep the water hot.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 18 July 2022 02:07 (two years ago) link
― joygoat, Monday, 18 July 2022 02:29 (two years ago) link
Also, no one I know drinks tea regularly. lies!!!unless you have disavowed knowing me
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, 18 July 2022 21:18 (two years ago) link
i also use the electric kettle to make coffee
yeah electric kettle is significantly better for pour over or french press, even your most basic, non-gooseneck one.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 18 July 2022 21:20 (two years ago) link
i hate that i'm getting into this but if you're content to let the water boil more slowly (which many are not) then idk what kind of magic water your electric kettle is producing that makes "significantly better" coffee
maybe this whole conversation is an American thing
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 18 July 2022 22:58 (two years ago) link
It's an ILX thing.
― Tom D: I was in the army (Tom D.), Monday, 18 July 2022 23:01 (two years ago) link
boiling shit on the stove is for boring ass nerds who are going to wait around for a fuckin cup of american ass bullshit tea with no milk because it aint worth delivered any quickquick boil electric kettles are galaxy brain so you can get to steeping asap abd enjoy your good cup of tea NOW instead of lateri don’t know why it needs to be explained but you all invite this beating every single fucking time if you dont get why you its because dont know and therfore you deserve to make your water in a fucking pot on the fucking stove or an asinine whistling goddamn kettle THEY SUCK AND THEY ARENT WORTH THE TIME WHAT IS SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 19 July 2022 02:02 (two years ago) link
^my favorite Wu-Tang skit
― We were clothed, except for Caan, who was naked. Don't know why. (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 July 2022 02:09 (two years ago) link
is there like a video where I can see this competition side by side with a timer?
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Tuesday, 19 July 2022 03:16 (two years ago) link
also this dispute ignores the voltage difference, which is why US electric kettles are um less than ideal at 120V
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Tuesday, 19 July 2022 03:17 (two years ago) link
Just plug the kettle into two 120V outlets that are 180 degrees out of phase.
― Herby Dutch Baby (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 19 July 2022 05:16 (two years ago) link
I actually have a friend who hacked a UK 230V kettle to run on US 240V power, but it's tricky
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Tuesday, 19 July 2022 14:58 (two years ago) link
Kettle Cookery
― Kim Kimberly, Friday, 22 July 2022 04:29 (two years ago) link
the sauce will cover the element
― Herby Dutch Baby (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 22 July 2022 06:23 (two years ago) link
summa cum laude
― ledge, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 11:02 (one year ago) link
Are stingy/stinging nettles not a think in the USA? I see lots of poison ivy talk, but not much mention of nettles.
― a hallan shaker loon (dowd), Sunday, 18 December 2022 20:53 (one year ago) link
We have them in California. My horse tries to eat them!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Sunday, 18 December 2022 22:12 (one year ago) link
Not native to North America, it was "introduced" there - though why anyone would bother I know not
― Gulf VAR Syndrome (Tom D.), Sunday, 18 December 2022 22:18 (one year ago) link
here in the Pacific Northwest we eat them
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nettle_soup
― sleeve, Sunday, 18 December 2022 23:27 (one year ago) link
Stinging nettles are known to have a high nutritional value, including calcium, magnesium, iron, and vitamins A and B.[1] Historically, one of the easy ways of consuming nettles is either through a soup or a tea because the boiling water deactivates the nettle from stinging
― sleeve, Sunday, 18 December 2022 23:28 (one year ago) link
and may I add
Today, nettle soup is mostly eaten in Scandinavia, Iran, Ireland, and Eastern Europe, with regional differences in recipe; however historically consumption of nettles was more widespread.
― sleeve, Sunday, 18 December 2022 23:29 (one year ago) link
I know there was a section on them being introduced to the Americas in the book Ecological Imperialism by Alfred Crosby. Talked about how they can reformat broken ground and stuff. Good way of anchoring nitrogen or something to that effect. I read the book in the mid 00ies so I can't remember if it gives a specific way the nettles arrived just that weeds and vermin tended to travel with other transport. So probably odd seeds on things and onboard infestation.
I did hear about nettle usage by Native Americans but they were pretty dynamic in ability to adapt to new phenomena, horses only arrived in teh 15th or 16th century too. Legacy of the Spanish at least the herds of mustangs or whatever taht were recorded as used.
― Stevolende, Monday, 19 December 2022 00:35 (one year ago) link
nettles remind me of the fairy/folk tale where the sister knits vests of nettles for a bunch of swans who turn into her brothers and carry her on a net (of nettles?) to some area for safety
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 00:57 (one year ago) link
maybe it's the other way around -- they turn into swans, carry her over some large body of water, and then she knits the vests and turns them back into brothers
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 01:11 (one year ago) link
They have a long, long history of being used for textiles. They're processed in the same way flax is, iirc.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 01:42 (one year ago) link
Roman soldiers stationed in Northern lands (like Britain) were said to beat themselves with nettles to keep warm.
We have the plant "stinging nettles" here, but there is also a completely different creature called a nettle - an aquatic jellyfish that stings. https://www.vims.edu/bayinfo/jellyfish/guide/bay_nettle.php
They are plentiful in Chesapeake Bay, and you want to be careful about swimming near them. Hence lots of people who want to swim in the Bay put out "nettle nets" - basically a big mesh circle with a floating rim. You swim inside it; the nettles presumably stay outside.
I was pretty far into my adolescence when I cleared up the confusion.
In the woods, you had to be careful of stinging nettles in the underbrush. When swimming in open water, you needed to be careful of stinging nettles in the water. I knew both of these things. I must have been an extremely confused child; perhaps I thought they had an aquatic and a terrestrial life cycle, like amphibians?
Compare anemone: also refers to a stinging animal and a completely unrelated plant.
― Cirque de Soleil Moon Frye (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 01:45 (one year ago) link
Some of our friends bought a nettle net this summer! It was pretty nice, but you still had to get yourself out into deep enough water to swim. I think they are mostly purchased by people to use off the back of their boats. We used SUPS and kayaks to ferry kids out to the deeper water - some of whom would dangle their legs over the side and get stung anyway. Way to go, kids!
When I was growing up, we had nettle patches all over the woods and every summer I would invariably brush against some and end up in screaming pain for 10 minutes or so.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 02:17 (one year ago) link
wheat thins
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 2 January 2023 16:30 (one year ago) link
keeping your fridge permanently packed with food, a fifth of which has gone bad at any given time
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 2 January 2023 16:31 (one year ago) link
leaving the heating on all day
“the broiler”
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 2 January 2023 16:33 (one year ago) link
stoop is dutch really (stoep = "flight of steps, doorstep, threshold")
― mark s, Monday, 2 January 2023 16:46 (one year ago) link
"And it's got a hint of cilantro."
― cocaine bear say hi to me (King Boy Pato), Friday, 13 January 2023 08:22 (one year ago) link
"Broiler" is an Americanism I like; calling it a "grill" confuses it with a real grill, the kind where you place food on a gridiron above a fire from charcoal briquets, or at least an electric element with charcoal rocks that simulates it. Heat from above in an oven? That's broiling, not grilling.
― Lee626, Friday, 13 January 2023 09:53 (one year ago) link
that's a good point tbf
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 13 January 2023 09:59 (one year ago) link
Weird Al Yankovic
― the forces of darkness making making us laugh ourselves into DEATH?? (dog latin), Thursday, 19 January 2023 13:17 (one year ago) link
thank you for explaining this, i don't know what some recipes are on about.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 19 January 2023 13:28 (one year ago) link
Neanderthal's experience was very similar to mine yesterday, when the first two McDonald's I went to were out of shamrock shakes, and I had to go to a third.― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, March 1, 2023 5:23 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, March 1, 2023 5:23 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 22:20 (one year ago) link
white eggs
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 22 April 2023 15:56 (one year ago) link
huh
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Saturday, 22 April 2023 15:56 (one year ago) link
never woulda thought
one of our chickens does in fact lay white eggs fwiw
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Saturday, 22 April 2023 15:57 (one year ago) link
shower curtains with an additional piece of cloth that drapes over the exterior wall of the tub
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 22 April 2023 15:57 (one year ago) link
i think i’ve only seen white duck eggs in the uk
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 22 April 2023 15:58 (one year ago) link
bewildering systems of heating and cooling, which seem to be constantly in operation regardless of the outside temperature
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 22 April 2023 15:59 (one year ago) link
I live in a place where we can open windows and turn off the hvac for nice days in spring and fall, and portions of other days.
But our summer temperatures can easily be 100° F (37° C) and winter temperatures can easily be 0°F (-17° C).
I don't see what's "bewildering" about it. There is a thermostat and I either tell it not to fall below a certain temperature, or not to rise above a temperature.
I can also omit heating/cooling altogether and use the same system to circulate air for freshness.
People who have them operating all the time may be silly but you will need to elaborate on the alternatives.
I am given to understand that people in climates that don't require air conditioning simply don't have it, which is fine and seems to be an option for parts off America as well as the rest of the world.
If you don't regularly get triple-digit (F) temperatures you probably don't think AC is needed. In which case, goody goody for you.
― when you wish upon a tsar (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 22 April 2023 16:14 (one year ago) link
this is so funny to me, like it's a modesty cloth to hide the shameful shower curtain
― least said, sergio mendes (sic), Saturday, 22 April 2023 16:38 (one year ago) link
it's a materials game. you can't have any old material dipping into the tub or base.
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 22 April 2023 16:44 (one year ago) link
washed and refrigerated eggs more so than white eggs. It applies to eggs of every color. Most american grocers seem to have ~25% or more brown eggs.
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 22 April 2023 16:50 (one year ago) link
Bright yellow-orange yolks and pasture raised are more fashionable than eggshell color these days.
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 22 April 2023 16:52 (one year ago) link
Saying "no fair" instead of, or as well as, "not fair" is an American Thing, right? And a weird one too.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Monday, 24 April 2023 10:32 (one year ago) link
it's a materials game. you can't have any old material dipping into the tub or base.do you think that shower curtains on other continents are made out of crepe paper and nobody can figure out why they keep disintegrating
― least said, sergio mendes (sic), Monday, 24 April 2023 14:12 (one year ago) link
no, I think americans would like the appearance of crepe paper shower curtains because the outer layer can be anything.
― Enumerated funks of Walsh, Joe. (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 24 April 2023 14:46 (one year ago) link
I don't see what's "bewildering" about ityou will need to elaborate on the alternativesgoody goody for you
you will need to elaborate on the alternatives
goody goody for you
my bad coach
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 24 April 2023 15:40 (one year ago) link
"Ouster".
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 09:18 (one year ago) link
... as noticed in the Fox/Tucker Carlson thread
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 09:19 (one year ago) link
A Northern Irish political prisoner was supposed to go on a hunger strike but then developed gastric problems after surreptitiously eating shellfish, leading to his forced resignation...
It was an Ulster oyster ulcer ouster.
― when you wish upon a tsar (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 10:23 (one year ago) link
ouch
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 14:56 (one year ago) link
I had a recent situation where the kitchen sink drain below me clogged with grease or fats... the guy upstairs didn't know of course, and I came home and my kitchen sink had overflowed with this smelly, greasy ass water... the maintenance guy was able to unclog it with this drill/snake thing, but now my kitchen smelled like the dumpster area behind a Wendy's on a hot dayI cleaned the floor with vinegar and different cleaning products, it seems to have dissipated.. but I'm always apologetic to any visitors, I think everyone can smell it even if it probably just smells like a kitchen― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, May 5, 2023 4:35 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
I cleaned the floor with vinegar and different cleaning products, it seems to have dissipated.. but I'm always apologetic to any visitors, I think everyone can smell it even if it probably just smells like a kitchen
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, May 5, 2023 4:35 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
"maintenance guys"
― No, 𝘐'𝘮 Breathless! (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 6 May 2023 02:39 (one year ago) link
“As someone who is 1/37th indigenous, I officially give this racism a pass”
― Boris Yitsbin (wins), Thursday, 14 September 2023 17:44 (one year ago) link
and it's usually based on some oral legend in their family about being descended from Pocahontas
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 14 September 2023 18:39 (one year ago) link
That weird hypercorrection where they think processes is the plural of processis
― Boris Yitsbin (wins), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 16:14 (one year ago) link
lol that's the worst! i don't think it's just an american thing though
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 16:53 (one year ago) link
I've never even heard of that word!
― pplains, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 17:09 (one year ago) link
i've also heard "bases" as in "cover all our bases" as if it were the plural of basis, lol
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 17:18 (one year ago) link
Pillowcases without a flap to keep the pillow inside.
― vashti funyuns (sic), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 17:25 (one year ago) link
How are you going to trick or treat with a flapped-over pillowcase?
― pplains, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 17:26 (one year ago) link
Basis is at least a word so there’s a logic at work there that makes it less jarring than processeeez (which I’ve never heard anyone say irl, & only heard non-irl from North Americans — I have a terrible idea they get it from their academia)
― Boris Yitsbin (wins), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 17:35 (one year ago) link
i thought "cover all the bases" was a baseball metaphor, not a plural of basis
― Make the chats AI (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 17:35 (one year ago) link
It is that’s why “as if it were the plural of basis, lol”
bj is saying they’ve heard ppl say it baseez in that expression
― Boris Yitsbin (wins), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 17:37 (one year ago) link
oh gotcha
― Make the chats AI (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 17:38 (one year ago) link
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 17:57 (one year ago) link
Poorly secured pillows are the price you pay for easy to make klan hoods
― Boris Yitsbin (wins), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 18:01 (one year ago) link
what are you saying about Beeps
― vashti funyuns (sic), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 20:48 (one year ago) link
croissandwich
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 23 September 2023 08:51 (one year ago) link
Thanks for making me think of that Dan Cortese BK commercial from the 90s
― Make the chats AI (Neanderthal), Saturday, 23 September 2023 15:06 (one year ago) link
toilet cubicles without coat hooks in them
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 18 November 2023 20:06 (ten months ago) link
Saying that you saw a film “in theatres”
― Boris Yitsbin (wins), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 12:35 (ten months ago) link
Do you mean, "at cinema"?
― peace, man, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 12:54 (ten months ago) link
That’s what it means yes but like how trailers/posters will say “in theatres now”, except it’s a person saying “oh yeah I saw that in theatres” even if they only saw it once in one theatre — that is an American thing afaict
― Boris Yitsbin (wins), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 13:06 (ten months ago) link
Oh, I see what you're saying - the plural. I had guessed that the British meaning of "theatres" might be more strictly applied to the stage. The American phrase is probably shorthand for "I saw that (when it was being shown) in theatres."
― peace, man, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 13:22 (ten months ago) link
“hey thanks for the white claw and the wheat thins”
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 13:58 (ten months ago) link
I had guessed that the British meaning of "theatres" might be more strictly applied to the stage.
Solely applied.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 14:02 (ten months ago) link
Hmmmmm. I don't think saying "in theatres" like that is a US thing? It would be said on a trailer/movie poster because the movie in question is being shown in many theatres across the country but if talking about a movie I saw I wouldn't say theaters plural and can't say I've heard it. In this instance I'd say, for example, "I saw that one in the theater when it came out". Always singular.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 14:02 (ten months ago) link
I haven't heard the plural used like that either.
― pplains, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 14:14 (ten months ago) link
I have!
― jaymc, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 14:15 (ten months ago) link
Did they spell it like that too?
― pplains, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 14:16 (ten months ago) link
"i saw that in theaters"
About 38,800 results (0.68 seconds)
― peace, man, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 14:16 (ten months ago) link
I was just trying to keep the spelling consistent with wins' original post.
Jay - really? It sounds completely wrong and weird and genuinely I don't think I have ever heard anyone say that.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 14:17 (ten months ago) link
You can only say "I saw it in theaters" if you saw it more than once in more than one theater.— Michael McKean (@MJMcKean) December 13, 2019
― jaymc, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 14:18 (ten months ago) link
You've heard people say I saw that in theatres? At "the movies" maybe but "in theatres"? Sounds weird. Maybe regional but I still think it's only mostly used in advertising.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 14:19 (ten months ago) link
But that person is right. Maybe if you saw one move multiple times you could say that but it still sounds wrong.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 14:20 (ten months ago) link
Multiple times in multiple theaters as opposed to at the movies then at home etc.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 14:21 (ten months ago) link
Yes I have heard that. Here is an example from a random message board a few months ago:I saw it in theaters this past Sunday. It was a good film and made more money than they thought it was going to opening weekend. "This past Sunday" strongly suggests a single viewing.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 14:24 (ten months ago) link
Weird.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 14:27 (ten months ago) link
Another one, from a blog:Memorable not only the first the time I saw it in theaters, but also as one of the first art movies I showed Kira when we started dating (she loved it).There's an extraneous "the" there, but it's clear he means "the first time I saw it in theaters," which again would mean a single viewing.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 14:28 (ten months ago) link
One of the last times I saw it in theaters was at my first-ever 4DX screening.https://www.themarysue.com/so-you-want-to-know-more-about-seeing-a-movie-in-4dx/
― jaymc, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 14:31 (ten months ago) link
obviously i'm pro-wins in this discussion -- i daren't be otherwise -- but the qualification in "the first time I saw it in theaters" might simply be impliying that he's since seen it in other theatres (or that he thinks it not impossible that one day he will)
― mark s, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 14:35 (ten months ago) link
So strange. Maybe it is regional like I said. I've never heard it so it's not the norm at least in the northeast.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 14:40 (ten months ago) link
This sounds unbearably pretentious in the US.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 14:42 (ten months ago) link
Fwiw, I grew up in the western US and usually say “I saw it in the theater.”
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 14:46 (ten months ago) link
But it sounds right to say “That movie is showing now in theaters.”
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 14:47 (ten months ago) link
I’d buy the argument that it’s derived from the “now in theaters” tagline. I’ve said “I saw that in the theater” but I doubt even my seasoned pedantry would cringe if someone said “saw that in theaters”
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 14:47 (ten months ago) link
surely “at cinema” is the british way of acknowledging being at a movie is a state of being, like being “in hospital”
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 14:48 (ten months ago) link
Which would also sound silly or pretentious coming from an American.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 14:49 (ten months ago) link
Yeah, Americans might use "cinema" to refer to the art form (though even that is a bit hifalutin) but hardly ever to the venue.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 14:49 (ten months ago) link
one of the largest movie theater chains is Cinemark so I simply say I saw a movie “at Cinemark”
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 14:51 (ten months ago) link
"at the cinema" not "at cinema"
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 14:52 (ten months ago) link
American English may be unique in referring to a movie house as a “theater.” Every other language I can think of uses a form of “cinema.”
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 14:54 (ten months ago) link
obviously i'm pro-wins in this discussion -- i daren't be otherwise -- but the qualification in "the first time I saw it in theaters" might simply be impliying that he's since seen it in other theatres (or that he thinks it not impossible that one day he will)This isn't quite convincing to me. You wouldn't say "The first time I ate at restaurants," you'd say "the first time I ate at a restaurant."
― jaymc, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 15:01 (ten months ago) link
Yes, it probably is.
It's still at "the theatre" just like it is "at the cinema" here if you're talking about something you've seen yourself. These internet people are wrong.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 15:02 (ten months ago) link
I now believe some people say this but they're wrong and probably midwestern ;).
shorthand for "i saw it when it was being widely screened in theaters across the country." sounds normal to me and makes sense. i'm in the southeast US
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 22 November 2023 15:06 (ten months ago) link
so maybe it's southern
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 15:06 (ten months ago) link
But so is Pleasant Plains so who knows
Here it means operating room btw and I work at a hospital so I actually use "in theatres" all the time when talking about surgeons etc and it still sort of sounds like they're acting at surgery to me.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 15:08 (ten months ago) link
You wouldn't say "The first time I ate at restaurants," you'd say "the first time I ate at a restaurant."
well, the distinction shd be between "The first time I ate in restaurants," you'd say "the first time I ate at a restaurant," and i think ppl sometimes would and do say the first, but it depends on the context: is this an anecdote just solely about that first time (second usage) or is it an anecdote contrasting or connecting the first time to subsequent times. i agree it;s a bit unusual but i don't think its actively odd in the wins sense (which seems to have an implied set of quotemarks round it)
― mark s, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 15:14 (ten months ago) link
This discussion has so confused me that now I’m not actually sure I’ve ever said “I saw it in theaters” or not. I have heard it for sure though and I don’t think I even would notice if someone said it.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 15:19 (ten months ago) link
surely “at cinema” is the british way of acknowledging being at a movie is a state of being, like being “in hospital”― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, November 22, 2023 9:48 AM (thirty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, November 22, 2023 9:48 AM (thirty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
This was me trying to make a joke.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 15:19 (ten months ago) link
correct usage in the UK is "attended a magic lantern exhibition"
― Tyler Perry's Cystitis (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 15:21 (ten months ago) link
real hedz say "in phenakistiscopes"
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Prof._Stampfer%27s_Stroboscopische_Scheibe_No._X.gif/440px-Prof._Stampfer%27s_Stroboscopische_Scheibe_No._X.gif
― mark s, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 15:35 (ten months ago) link
thanks now i'm sat here fixated on the little men
― Tyler Perry's Cystitis (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 15:36 (ten months ago) link
I am pretty sure I say “I saw that in theatres”. The relevant distinction is seeing something in theatres vs seeing it at home
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 15:38 (ten months ago) link
homes
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 15:42 (ten months ago) link
American English may be unique in referring to a movie house as a “theater.” Every other language I can think of uses a form of “cinema.”How many other variations of English did you think through?
― vashti funyuns (sic), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 15:45 (ten months ago) link
Seeing a single movie more than one time in theaters might also be more common in America, but I don't have any data to support that
― active spectator of ecocide and dispossession (Eric H.), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 15:47 (ten months ago) link
Silby - rather than "the theatre"? Are you from the West coast? I'm gonna figure this out.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 15:48 (ten months ago) link
theater oops
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 15:51 (ten months ago) link
How many other variations of English did you think through?
Oh, hey there (again). I said "other languages," i.e., not English. The Romance languages with which I am familiar all use their form of "cinema." Russian and German, too. Even Japanese.
But I appreciate your jumping on me (again).
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 15:53 (ten months ago) link
I was riffing on the “at cinema” joke but not well
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 15:55 (ten months ago) link
ENBB I’m originally from northern VA
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 16:09 (ten months ago) link
I've heard people from various parts of the country talk about "going to the movies."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 16:09 (ten months ago) link
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZjM4ZGNlZWEtOGUwNi00ZDAxLWIxZDktZWQ4NWViNGQ1NzA2XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTIxMDUyOTI@._V1_.jpg
― jaymc, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 16:12 (ten months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDz4_AwfeaI
― peace, man, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 16:13 (ten months ago) link
I said "other languages," i.e., not Englishseems a pretty American thing to not consider non-American forms of things, good OT
― vashti funyuns (sic), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 16:15 (ten months ago) link
"The movies" is completely different.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 16:16 (ten months ago) link
"The movies" is fine. It feels old timey but not wrong.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 16:18 (ten months ago) link
"I saw ET at the movies." Acceptable."I saw ET in theaters." Not acceptable unless you saw it in more than one movie theater.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 16:19 (ten months ago) link
"Only in theaters" means "It will be a while before it gets to Netflix, so get off your ass and drive over to the AMC / Regal / multiplex / whatever. Also, buy some popcorn and a bucket of Pepsi."
― Oh I believe in Yetis' Day (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 16:19 (ten months ago) link
I usually say "I saw it in the theater", usual response is "who gives a fuck and also do I know you"
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 16:20 (ten months ago) link
x-post yeah but it what it really means is that it is currently in many theatres at once!
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 16:21 (ten months ago) link
seems a pretty American thing to not consider non-American forms of things, good OT
Seriously, WTF. I made an offhand post thinking mostly about the other languages with which I am familiar. But you do you.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 16:24 (ten months ago) link
When I have seen a movie in a theater (or when I want to) I am more likely to say "on a big screen" or "on the big screen" or maybe "in a theater."
I am unlikely to say "cinema" or even "film," Because the last four things I saw were Barbie, Paw Patrol, Mario, and Minions.
Calling those pieces of entertainment "film" or "cinema" seems a trifle pretentious.
― Oh I believe in Yetis' Day (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 16:25 (ten months ago) link
I would never say “on the big screen” unless I were being ironic
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 16:28 (ten months ago) link
"I saw it in the spheres"
― active spectator of ecocide and dispossession (Eric H.), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 16:30 (ten months ago) link
totally say "on the big screen," it's fun and specifically informative
btw did you see the Cinerama is being brought back with a very stupid name
very American thing to get mad when someone asks a genuine question and the answer suggests to oneself a vague degree of unconsideration, great OT
― vashti funyuns (sic), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 16:44 (ten months ago) link
Where I'm from they say films not movies, and they see those "at the pictures".
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 16:58 (ten months ago) link
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, November 22, 2023 9:06 AM bookmarkflaglink
I reiterate I haven't heard "saw it in theatres," but who knows. I do live in the land of going to Krogers or to Walmarts.
― pplains, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 17:17 (ten months ago) link
Right I meant it might be a southern thing but maybe not since you are also a southern thing and had not heard it!
Omg Walmarts.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 17:35 (ten months ago) link
Yeah I think I saw they plan to come up with a better name in due course
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 18:16 (ten months ago) link
It's actually "walmarks," but I don't have the energy right now.
― pplains, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 18:24 (ten months ago) link
Kmarts
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 18:41 (ten months ago) link
I would probably say "I saw that in the theater" but I've definitely heard "in theaters" and it sounds perfectly normal to me.
"in theatres" is not an American thing because we don't spell it "theatres"
― c u (crüt), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 19:09 (ten months ago) link
I didn’t correct my autocorrect because I’m talking to grownups, we’re aware of us/uk variant spellings and have had our whole lives to come to terms with them, it’s not really worth remarking on
― Boris Yitsbin (wins), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 19:19 (ten months ago) link
wasn't implying that you aren't aware :)
― c u (crüt), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 19:20 (ten months ago) link
"I saw ET in theaters." Not acceptable unless you saw it in more than one movie theater.
"I saw ET when it was first in theaters." I hope this is acceptable, because it's how I would say it!
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 19:24 (ten months ago) link
the one I hear all the time is Aldi's, makes me so upset
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 19:32 (ten months ago) link
Yes, that's def acceptable usage because you're using it there in the same way it's used in marketing stuff. The "when it was first" makes it ok. Think in that case I'd prob say "I saw it when it first came out" but yours works.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 19:34 (ten months ago) link
adding an s or ‘s to the name of businesses does, in fact, annoy me and if that’s an american thing I apologize to the rest of the world
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 19:48 (ten months ago) link
I don't think that's an American thing. E.g. Tescos
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 19:52 (ten months ago) link
I saw ET in theatres.
he kept ambling into and out of them and kids were screaming and running out of the building, spilling popcorn everywhere
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 20:05 (ten months ago) link
See? That just looks so wrong! Also if I saw ET I would hug him.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 20:06 (ten months ago) link
I used to get really irritated with my dad for saying “Barnes and Noble’s”. He also used to inexplicably say “Borders and Books.” I would always retort “Dad, they don’t sell borders.” It never stuck with him though.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 20:40 (ten months ago) link
He also used to inexplicably say “Borders and Books.”
interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borders_(UK)
― c u (crüt), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 20:43 (ten months ago) link
When I was a young child in Michigan, we went grocery shopping at "Farmer Jack's."
https://i.etsystatic.com/8959096/r/il/5ae1d6/2415370730/il_fullxfull.2415370730_ded5.jpg
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 20:43 (ten months ago) link
hi do u like my hat, it is made of tablecloth
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 20:46 (ten months ago) link
It also exists only in two dimensions, unlike my head
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 20:47 (ten months ago) link
Borders Books and Music was the best. Spent many many hours in the cafe there as a teen.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 22:18 (ten months ago) link
Should have been Borders and Books tho.
Liminal Spaces
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 22:19 (ten months ago) link
Doctors Without Borders and Books
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 22:21 (ten months ago) link
Borders and Book 'im, Danno
― Oh I believe in Yetis' Day (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 22:26 (ten months ago) link
― brimstead, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 22:50 (ten months ago) link
I got my first Gucci Mane album there
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 22:53 (ten months ago) link
The music section at the one near my hometown was really good!
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 22:53 (ten months ago) link
Didn't they have listening stations?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 22:53 (ten months ago) link
I believe so?
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 22:56 (ten months ago) link
― c u (crüt), Wednesday, November 22, 2023 3:43 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Whoa! I see my whole childhood differently now
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 23:00 (ten months ago) link
Borders was definitely way better than B&N and I was sad that the latter won the big bookstore wars. And yeah they had really good listening stations
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 23:03 (ten months ago) link
borders was a better b&n but we didn't have them in nyc afaik. that's ok though because we had nobody beats the wiz where cd albums were like $11 instead of $17
my dad used to always call rite aid "j.lo", at first he legitimately got the 2 mixed up but he continued doing it intentionally once he figured it out.
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 23:08 (ten months ago) link
Nobody beat it.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 23:13 (ten months ago) link
Obv I remember the Wiz and its jingle but I don't know if it existed by the time I started shopping in the city on my own. The big chains then we're tower and hmv.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 23:15 (ten months ago) link
Were
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 23:16 (ten months ago) link
Oh shit I didn't see the nobody beats it part whoops.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 23:17 (ten months ago) link
I worked at Tower in lower Manhattan in the early 90s, a shitty place to work but a really cool spot. You could get good deals sometimes and we had great in-stores.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 23:17 (ten months ago) link
I get inappropriately nostalgic when I think about Tower Records, especially the one on Watt Ave in Sacramento
― brimstead, Thursday, 23 November 2023 00:22 (ten months ago) link
they were my happy places
The Strand-Tower-Other Music axis was huge in my college years.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 23 November 2023 00:36 (ten months ago) link
lol yes, same - I think we're similar in age and those were THE places. The 4th and Broadway Tower/Other was so good too because at the time they had the best clothes store around there. I can't remember if it lasted until I was at NYU it was there when I was in HS - Antique Boutique! I somehow wound up paying Tower video $100 for a copy of Pi.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 23 November 2023 09:20 (ten months ago) link
Ha, I remember seeing Pi “in theaters” summer 1998 somewhere in the village, not sure what theater it was. Soooo into it, and yet I have little interest in rewatching it today.
Not sure if I remember Antique Boutique.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 24 November 2023 03:46 (ten months ago) link
I don't think I ever even watched it. Timing tracks - I rented it the year I graduated so 1998/99.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 24 November 2023 13:40 (ten months ago) link
I was at NYU for grad school 1991-93. I moved there from Denver, it was quite a culture shock.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 24 November 2023 15:52 (ten months ago) link
It must have been. One of my roommates senior year was from rural PA. Her first time in NYC was the day she arrived for orientation. I always sort of envied that because, although actually living in the city was def an adjustment, it was never new like that to me if that makes sense.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 24 November 2023 16:38 (ten months ago) link
Yes, it makes sense. I had been there a couple of times for long weekends (which is one of the reasons I wanted to move there), but still. I hated it at first. It didn't help that I arrived in the middle of a very hot August.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 24 November 2023 17:00 (ten months ago) link
there was a good minute there where I thought you were all talking about buying books in B&M (a UK shop which may possibly sell some books, but would not be anyone's first choice when book shopping)
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 24 November 2023 17:11 (ten months ago) link
X-post - Oof. There's a reason everyone who can leaves on weekends in the summer. Just thinking about how bad the garbage smells. Ugh.
B&M books would be . . . interesting at the very least.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 24 November 2023 18:05 (ten months ago) link
Do they not have Barnes and Noble here? Hadn't thought about it but it's basically Waterstones.
xp They specialize in books that can be read in short installments.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 24 November 2023 18:06 (ten months ago) link
Not cleaning public bathrooms several times a day.
― Tapioca by Jean Sibelius (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 2 December 2023 20:57 (nine months ago) link
bread in the fridgemustard in the fridge
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 14 January 2024 01:06 (eight months ago) link
I thought keeping mustard in the fridge is one of the good universal kitchen practices tbf
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, 14 January 2024 01:10 (eight months ago) link
maybe i just eat a lot of mustard idk
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 14 January 2024 01:13 (eight months ago) link
bars that you have to drive to
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 14 January 2024 01:15 (eight months ago) link
bread in the fridge does prolong its life, while also drying it out which might be fine or bad.
― Sufjan Grafton, Sunday, 14 January 2024 01:18 (eight months ago) link
it's not a sin on par with tomatoes or apples in the fridge
― Sufjan Grafton, Sunday, 14 January 2024 01:20 (eight months ago) link
I'm strictly condiments in the fridge and bread in the bread bin, but bread in the fridge is fine really. It will keep good longer. But freezing bread is something I stopped doing.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, 14 January 2024 01:20 (eight months ago) link
lots of stuff goes in my fridge strictly as an economic decision. i'd love to have a bowl of produce on my kitchen table but i live alone in a not-temperate climate and it just makes my life and kitchen rhythms easier when i know the life of things are elongated by the fridge
― budo jeru, Sunday, 14 January 2024 01:31 (eight months ago) link
it’s just me, if I don’t use it the day I buy it or have a specific plan for anything fresh that’s guaranteed to happen within 24 hours it goes in the fridge
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Sunday, 14 January 2024 02:34 (eight months ago) link
wheat thins in the fridge
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 14 January 2024 02:41 (eight months ago) link
xp I am the same way with bakery bread or even the fake mass produced grocery-aisle-thawed versions like TJ's ciabatta
― Sufjan Grafton, Sunday, 14 January 2024 02:56 (eight months ago) link
And then a Ball Park hamburger or hot dog bun will last 6 years on the windowsill
― Sufjan Grafton, Sunday, 14 January 2024 02:58 (eight months ago) link
going to the supermarket when your giant fridge is already 3/4 full of mildly rotting food
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 14 January 2024 03:08 (eight months ago) link
maybe it’s just my family but they all do this
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 14 January 2024 03:09 (eight months ago) link
One of my finest dad joke moments was when my wife asked me to buy a breadbox, and I said, "how big?"
Mustard is so acidic that it seems unlikely to go bad if not refrigerated. But generally I obey the packaging - if it says "refrigerate after opening," we mostly do so. Because why not? It's harmless.
Peanut butter and honey don't get refrigerated. Jelly/jam/preserves/marmalade/chutney generally do (once opened). Ketchup and relish are generally fridged.
Bread in the refrigerator? Hell no. We might freeze some bread if we have too much but that's rare.
― CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 14 January 2024 03:09 (eight months ago) link
it’s so weird just eat the bread
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 14 January 2024 03:12 (eight months ago) link
what about fruit in the fridge? most fruit tastes better cold, imo
― brimstead, Sunday, 14 January 2024 03:13 (eight months ago) link
This is just to say
I have eaten brimstead's plums
Forgive me
― CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 14 January 2024 03:19 (eight months ago) link
a cold apple can be pretty good. soft fruit should be room temp though imo, sorry billkinda prefer grapefruit room temp too
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 14 January 2024 03:25 (eight months ago) link
tbf, expat hypercritical of american family is an american thing
― Sufjan Grafton, Sunday, 14 January 2024 04:23 (eight months ago) link
lol yes
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 14 January 2024 04:24 (eight months ago) link
it’s because they do everything wrong
― Sufjan Grafton, Saturday, January 13, 2024 10:23 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
somebody had to say it
― budo jeru, Sunday, 14 January 2024 16:32 (eight months ago) link
Rx is a common abbreviation for medical prescriptions derived from the Latin verb recipere, "take / receive".
― Kim Kimberly, Friday, 16 February 2024 20:09 (seven months ago) link
Not used in the UK. I mean, I have seen it before but I'm not sure in what context?
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Friday, 16 February 2024 20:13 (seven months ago) link
I got to thinking about this while waiting for some antibiotics today. Over here it's a given that Rx = precription and you'll see it printed everywhere at the pharmacy. But until today I didn't know why.
― Kim Kimberly, Friday, 16 February 2024 20:20 (seven months ago) link
*prescription
― Kim Kimberly, Friday, 16 February 2024 20:21 (seven months ago) link
Because Americans originally spoke classical Latin, duh
― fleetwood macrame (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 16 February 2024 20:29 (seven months ago) link
exactly, just as Jesus did before discovering America
― budo jeru, Friday, 16 February 2024 20:38 (seven months ago) link
Jesus bought America, excuse me
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Friday, 16 February 2024 20:39 (seven months ago) link
It's probably some relic from 18th century English apothecaries.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Friday, 16 February 2024 21:08 (seven months ago) link
This is the only place I've seen Rx in the UK:
https://i.imgur.com/YaH6h6p.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 16 February 2024 21:16 (seven months ago) link
Indeed... I was gonna say that the Royal Trux logo makes less sense to those unfamilar with the comman usage of Rx in the US.
― Kim Kimberly, Friday, 16 February 2024 21:18 (seven months ago) link
"ketchup"
― Bellend Sebastian (S-), Friday, 26 April 2024 02:56 (five months ago) link
big tough dudes who are scared to be naked or see others naked
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 26 April 2024 03:00 (five months ago) link
_*Rx* is a common abbreviation for medical prescriptions derived from the Latin verb recipere, "take / receive"._Is this used anywhere outside of the US?
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 26 April 2024 03:19 (five months ago) link
fuckin right
take your catsup bullshit elsewhere
― mookieproof, Friday, 26 April 2024 03:41 (five months ago) link
I regret to inform you that the catsup bullshit is even more American than ketchup
― bae (sic), Friday, 26 April 2024 08:02 (five months ago) link
yeah ketchup is tbh widespread
catsup is American and only american that ive ever seen
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 26 April 2024 08:06 (five months ago) link
Except that "ketchup" derives from Dutch/Malay "ketjap." But hey let's not let anything like facts get in the way of cheap anti-US zings
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 26 April 2024 09:09 (five months ago) link
The etymology of the word ketchup is unclear and has multiple competing theories:
also im not seeing the vicious anti yank zing here but hey
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 26 April 2024 09:26 (five months ago) link
_"ketchup"_fuckin righttake your catsup bullshit elsewhere
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Friday, 26 April 2024 12:37 (five months ago) link
"Catsup" is about as American a word as it's possible to be.
― Not waving but droning (Tom D.), Friday, 26 April 2024 12:38 (five months ago) link
i think you meant to quote/link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchup#Etymology .... and, dang!
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 26 April 2024 12:42 (five months ago) link
"Fancy" ketchupSome ketchup in the U.S. is labeled "Fancy". This is a USDA grade, relating to specific gravity. Fancy ketchup has a higher tomato solid concentration than other USDA grades.
Some ketchup in the U.S. is labeled "Fancy". This is a USDA grade, relating to specific gravity. Fancy ketchup has a higher tomato solid concentration than other USDA grades.
ain't that America!
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 26 April 2024 12:43 (five months ago) link
Said here's your ketchup, fancy don't let me down!
― pplains, Friday, 26 April 2024 13:45 (five months ago) link
"i think you meant to quote/link"
well how very presumptuous
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 26 April 2024 13:49 (five months ago) link
sure the difference in use of the word "fancy" between USA/UK has led to some hilarious misunderstandings re:costumes at "fancy dress" parties.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 26 April 2024 13:52 (five months ago) link
cmon you even pasted the colon
like so much digital catsup
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 26 April 2024 13:52 (five months ago) link
i post precisely what i mean to say, nothing more, nothing less!
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 26 April 2024 14:05 (five months ago) link
the Heinz squeeze nozzle of posters
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 26 April 2024 14:20 (five months ago) link
I think the only American I’ve ever heard say “catsup” was Porky Pig
― brimstead, Friday, 26 April 2024 14:22 (five months ago) link
That's one more cartoon pig than anywhere outside the US tbf
― Not waving but droning (Tom D.), Friday, 26 April 2024 14:39 (five months ago) link
I always thought it was pronounced like "ketchup" regardless of how it was spelled.
― jaymc, Friday, 26 April 2024 14:39 (five months ago) link
_*Rx* is a common abbreviation for medical prescriptions derived from the Latin verb recipere, "take / receive"._
Is this used anywhere outside of the US?
Yeah, in medicine worldwide, but it’s more like a term of trade rather than in widespread use. Also Hx, patient history, Dx, diagnosis, etc.― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, April 25, 2024 11:19 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Yep. I work at a hospital in the UK and we use all of these.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 26 April 2024 14:40 (five months ago) link
I don't understand the original post though. What's wrong with ketchup? It's a hell of a lot better than red sauce or tomato sauce both of which I've heard here and are dumb. Tomato sauce is for pasta duh. Red sauce is just inexcusable.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 26 April 2024 14:41 (five months ago) link
^ classic American thing
― bae (sic), Friday, 26 April 2024 15:37 (five months ago) link
On behalf of the culture behind salsa roja I must reluctantly fp enbb I also don’t understand the original post tho, virtually everybody says ketchup here ime (incidentally it is called catsup in Mexico but otherwise I think that is a specifically American regionalism so yeah a baffling counter to the odd original post)
― subpost master (wins), Friday, 26 April 2024 16:06 (five months ago) link
here imeis there anywhere else
― bae (sic), Friday, 26 April 2024 16:55 (five months ago) link
Than the uk? Happily yes
― subpost master (wins), Friday, 26 April 2024 17:06 (five months ago) link
Using "english" when playing cue sports (= side spin)
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 26 April 2024 17:17 (five months ago) link
ketchup/tomato sauce is interchangeable in my own cultural experience
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 26 April 2024 18:11 (five months ago) link
hi sorry, what
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 26 April 2024 18:11 (five months ago) link
My late Sicilian grandmother is attempting to climb out of her grave
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Friday, 26 April 2024 18:21 (five months ago) link
tell her to tomato sauce
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 26 April 2024 18:22 (five months ago) link
Lol
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Friday, 26 April 2024 18:23 (five months ago) link
Happily yesI wonder if it’s possible that a poster from another place, posting on a borad historically overpopulated with people from another place, on a thread started by a person from another place to simply note “American things,” might simply be noting the existence of a sweetened American-derived product that, for eg, Heinz gave up on even manufacturing in that place after a concerted campaign of decades to increase their sales of ketchup vs their own version of the local condiment languished in single-digit percentages
― bae (sic), Friday, 26 April 2024 19:12 (five months ago) link
Baked beans?
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 26 April 2024 19:13 (five months ago) link
I guess “baked beans” is probably an American thing
saying "red sauce" "brown sauce" clearly indicates that I know this is chemical shit but I'm eating it anyway. 👍
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 26 April 2024 19:14 (five months ago) link
brb making brown sauce
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Friday, 26 April 2024 19:21 (five months ago) link
sure the difference in use of the word "fancy" between USA/UK has led to some hilarious misunderstandings re:costumes at "fancy dress" parties.― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length)
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length)
i just use "fancy" to mean "gay"
mind you i mean every word to mean "gay"
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 26 April 2024 20:56 (five months ago) link
saying "red sauce" "brown sauce" clearly indicates that I know this is chemical shit but I'm eating it anyway. 👍― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length)
see i don't read it that way, i have these arguments with my second oldest brother, who lives in cincinnati and is thus obligated to defend their disgusting idea of "chili", despite his being a chef. what he says is "as long as you think of it as a red sauce and not chili it's fine". "red sauce", "brown sauce", "white sauce", to me these are respected culinary terms.
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 26 April 2024 20:59 (five months ago) link
I'm pretty sure "brown sauce" in Blighty doesn't mean espagnole it means this stuff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_sauce
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 26 April 2024 21:08 (five months ago) link
also cincinnati chili is good not bad fyiyd
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 26 April 2024 21:09 (five months ago) link
_ Happily yes_I wonder if it’s possible that a poster from another place, posting on a borad historically overpopulated with people from another place, on a thread started by a person from another place to simply note “American things,” might simply be noting the existence of a sweetened American-derived product that, for eg, Heinz gave up on even manufacturing in that place after a concerted campaign of decades to increase their sales of ketchup vs their own version of the local condiment languished in single-digit percentages
― subpost master (wins), Friday, 26 April 2024 21:20 (five months ago) link
itt: brown sauce, pasted colons
― 145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 26 April 2024 21:39 (five months ago) link
I'm pretty sure "brown sauce" in Blighty doesn't mean espagnole it means this stuff
Great stuff, especially on a square sliced sausage in a roll.
― Not waving but droning (Tom D.), Friday, 26 April 2024 22:01 (five months ago) link
Brown colons are an international phenomenon
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 26 April 2024 22:02 (five months ago) link
when I worked at Chevy's Fresh Mex in the early 2000s, there was a marinade for the fajitas that was called out on the menu as "Agua Negra".
one doofus, probably trying to brag about his very cursory knowledge of Spanish for his date, kept concern trolling me about it, saying "did you know in Spanish that means BROWN WATER?! I sure hope they're not slathering our steak in MUSTY OLD BROWN WATER", and like the more he went on it didn't seem like he was kidding. I should have just told him we put feces in our food cos he seemed unwilling to believe me that we weren't poisoning the food and advertising it on the menu.
in actuality it's just a soy-sauce based marinade, something like
1 cup Soy Sauce2 cups Pineapple Juice2 tablespoons ground Cumin1 1/2 teaspoons minced Garlic1/4 cup freshly squeezed Lime Juice
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Friday, 26 April 2024 22:06 (five months ago) link
also cincinnati chili is good not bad fyiyd― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby)
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby)
you're wrong, silby
wrong on the internet
i'm terribly upset about this
one doofus, probably trying to brag about his very cursory knowledge of Spanish for his date, kept concern trolling me about it, saying "did you know in Spanish that means BROWN WATER?! I sure hope they're not slathering our steak in MUSTY OLD BROWN WATER"― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal)
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal)
punish him by making him listen to the doobie brothers until he learns more spanish
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 26 April 2024 22:22 (five months ago) link
I feel like _a_ red sauce as opposed to just “red sauce” have different connotations but I may be splitting hairs. The latter being the most commonly known sauce of that color in the local cuisine. I’d default to italian-american cuisine’s very generic tomato-based concoction, which is probably labeled marinara if it has actually flavor, and maybe just called red sauce regardless if it’s in someone’s homedamn, Chevy’s Fresh Mex. haven’t thought about that one in a minute
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 26 April 2024 22:27 (five months ago) link
fp’d wins for capeschism
― bae (sic), Saturday, 27 April 2024 02:16 (five months ago) link
x-post - THank you MH that is correct.
Sibly the whole of the UK would prob want to fight you for saying baked beans are American but they are and even beans on toast is! Am American ad exec at Heinz came up with the concept to sell the beans over here and it took off. Do not ask me why I looked this up recently.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 08:38 (four months ago) link
How could Cincinnati chili be bad? Spaghetti is good. Chili is good. I do not see the issue.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 08:39 (four months ago) link
Taking an hour and a half to make pasta with pesto and a green salad
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 09:01 (four months ago) link
oh and garlic bread, next to the pasta.
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 09:02 (four months ago) link
I've never eaten beans on toast, why would I want to eat soggy bread?
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 09:14 (four months ago) link
Never??? Even I've tried it. If you toast the bread well it takes a while to get soggy but I'm with you on that.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 09:18 (four months ago) link
thread sleeping on this wikipedia detail: "The word keh (茄) means 'eggplant'; tomato in Cantonese is 番茄, which literally translates to 'foreign eggplant'."
im guessing cantonese ilx be 🔥
― mark s, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 09:19 (four months ago) link
If I have tinned baked beans these days I add some spices, usually of the cayenne/smoked paprika type to make them more interesting. It's ok as a side for some piri piri chicken wings or spiced potato wedges.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 10:28 (four months ago) link
thread sleeping on this wikipedia detail: "The word keh (茄) means 'eggplant'; tomato in Cantonese is 番茄, which literally translates to 'foreign eggplant'."im guessing cantonese ilx be 🔥― mark s
― mark s
what does "eggplant sweatdrops" translate to in english, i see those emoji all the time
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 13:18 (four months ago) link
cum
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 13:33 (four months ago) link
missed Kate's post at first and thought u were saying this^ was purely an American thing
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 13:34 (four months ago) link
im guessing cantonese ilx be 🔥― mark s, Wednesday, May 1, 2024 2:19 AM (ten hours ago)
― mark s, Wednesday, May 1, 2024 2:19 AM (ten hours ago)
花橋 福耀
https://www.cantonese.asia/portal.php?mod=view&aid=776
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 19:46 (four months ago) link
(s/o to the 2(?) posters that will roll their eyes at my primary school humour)
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 19:48 (four months ago) link
Tug McGraw started 39 games during his career--most of them his first two years (21), but then scattered around the rest of the way, including a start in 1983 for the Phillies. He wasn't very effective: 7-23, 4.81 (during a good era for pitchers; his lifetime ERA as a reliever was 2.86).― clemenza, Sunday, 2 June 2024 15:51 (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― clemenza, Sunday, 2 June 2024 15:51 (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Sunday, 2 June 2024 15:55 (three months ago) link
Graffitiing your own car to express discontent with an elected politician (and the subset of doing it using a a quote from a motorsport announcer).
― Bellend Sebastian (S-), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 05:06 (three months ago) link
Dunno if that one's exclusive to the US, plenty of cookers here with JESUS IS MY FLAT EARTH LORD 5G WINDFARMS WILL KILL US ALL I BLAME DAN ANDREWS all over their vans or whatever.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 13 June 2024 02:06 (three months ago) link
well, it's not for nothing that Melville called Australia "that great America on the other side of the sphere"
― budo jeru, Thursday, 13 June 2024 07:10 (three months ago) link
portland has some amazing bumper stickers to be fair
not the ones about "i'd rather be watching the mummy" or whatever, those suck
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 13 June 2024 13:56 (three months ago) link
a bumper sticker is a very different level of commitment (or cookedness)
― bae (sic), Thursday, 13 June 2024 15:08 (three months ago) link
whats the reason thai food is so big in the us but just hasn’t really taken off anywhere else in the world? is it literally just the government funding thing?— just matt (bar prep edition) (@questionableway) June 16, 2024
― bae (sic), Monday, 17 June 2024 10:00 (three months ago) link
At one point every second pub in Britain seemed to be serving Thai food.
― ILX: a violent left-wing mob who hate our country (Tom D.), Monday, 17 June 2024 10:07 (three months ago) link
lol yes, great times.there are at least four uk nationwide thai chains.
― ledge, Monday, 17 June 2024 10:10 (three months ago) link
Since at least the early '90s, Sydney high streets can have multiple Thai restaurants on the same block, competing for attention with the best punning name, eg Thai Foon vs Thai Me Up Thai Me Down.
― bae (sic), Monday, 17 June 2024 17:55 (three months ago) link
LOL yes Sydney seemed to have nothing but Thai food last time I was up there and has since the 90s. Melbourne not so much. I mean we do - Thai is almost as ubiq as Chinese takeaway at this point. But Sydney is nuts.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 18 June 2024 06:04 (three months ago) link
whats the reason thai food is so big in the us but just hasn’t really taken off anywhere else in the world? is it literally just the government funding thing? — just matt (bar prep edition) (@questionableway) June 16, 2024
Thailand as well as Indochine neighbors Laos & Cambodia (including various minorities such as Hmong, Mien, et.al.) were allies to the USA during the VietNam war and were given safe harbor immigration to the USA as refugees if they met criteria and/or sponsorship.
Many of the "Thai" restaurants in the USA are run by these ethnic minorities, such as here in California some even identify as "Thai-Lao" or "Lao-Thai" as to call attention to their roots. Here in SF there is a similar distinction as quite a few of the "Mexican" taquerias are owned/operated by Salvadorans/Hondurans/Guatemalans/Nicaraguans serving a fusion of Mexican food and regional delicacies regardless of post-WWII border distinctions.
see also: Nepalese/Afghani/Pakistani-style "Indian" restaurants and other asian-fusion restaurants.
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Monday, 24 June 2024 00:42 (three months ago) link
but why hasn’t it taken off anywhere else in the world
― bae (sic), Monday, 24 June 2024 03:30 (three months ago) link
I agree that's the real question
― default damager (lukas), Monday, 24 June 2024 03:44 (three months ago) link
actually wait I don't think that's true
― default damager (lukas), Monday, 24 June 2024 04:08 (three months ago) link
It is true and strange. But maybe Ryan Reynolds will next buy a thai restaurant and show the world how it's done.
― 145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 24 June 2024 04:19 (three months ago) link
y'all in the wrong thread imho.
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Monday, 24 June 2024 04:37 (three months ago) link
^^American thing
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 24 June 2024 05:33 (three months ago) link
SpaceX launches
― 145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 24 June 2024 16:49 (three months ago) link
fannypacks
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 24 June 2024 16:49 (three months ago) link
military base Subway sandwich restaurant
― 145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 24 June 2024 16:50 (three months ago) link
Coney sauce
― 145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 24 June 2024 16:54 (three months ago) link
boar’s head
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Monday, 24 June 2024 16:55 (three months ago) link
pickle loaf
― 145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 24 June 2024 16:58 (three months ago) link
Mondo Squeezers
― 145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 24 June 2024 17:01 (three months ago) link
storm chasers (predominantly)
― 145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 24 June 2024 17:06 (three months ago) link
Trendy water bottles
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Monday, 24 June 2024 17:29 (three months ago) link
metal water bottles make me ia, i know plastic is very bad but the nalgene is and was the pinnacle of water bottles and cannot be improved upon imho
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Monday, 24 June 2024 17:47 (three months ago) link
^ bemusing american post
― bae (sic), Monday, 24 June 2024 17:52 (three months ago) link
boar’s headI know a small Gaulish village that would disagree
― bae (sic), Monday, 24 June 2024 17:54 (three months ago) link
tater tot option
― 145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 24 June 2024 18:05 (three months ago) link
is sic back in aus or just using a vpn to dunk on his host country now
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Saturday, 29 June 2024 05:04 (two months ago) link
"happy Friday"
― that's that me: a Viking (seandalai), Saturday, 29 June 2024 21:07 (two months ago) link
oh I read all the G/U ‘sterixes when I was 7
― bae (sic), Saturday, 29 June 2024 22:58 (two months ago) link
I always thought of "happy friday" as a filipino thing cos the only people I ever hear saying it are my colleagues in Manila.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 30 June 2024 02:19 (two months ago) link
"hump day"
― visiting, Sunday, 30 June 2024 02:54 (two months ago) link
the united states of america presidential election
― 145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 30 June 2024 19:02 (two months ago) link
the idea that politicians on your side are "fundamentally decent" and gave a "life of service", as opposed to sketchy power hungry sociopaths to keep an eye on
perhaps not exclusively an American thing but def stronger there than anywhere else I know
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 1 July 2024 09:30 (two months ago) link
That’s not a fair or accurate dichotomy. You can’t tell me that someone like John Lewis is a “sketchy power hungry sociopath” and not a dedicated public servant. Just please turn down the gas on your words.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, 1 July 2024 13:49 (two months ago) link
pretty strong
― bae (sic), Monday, 1 July 2024 16:37 (two months ago) link
I fear the spirit in which this thread was begat has kind of got lost in the last dozen posts or so.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 2 July 2024 02:18 (two months ago) link
originalismism
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 2 July 2024 02:49 (two months ago) link
10. "democracy"11. mac 'n cheese12. sherrifs― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, February 5, 2018 1:20 AM (six years ago)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, February 5, 2018 1:20 AM (six years ago)
― bae (sic), Tuesday, 2 July 2024 08:42 (two months ago) link
12. sherrifs
― Dick Cavett Poo Party (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 2 July 2024 12:40 (two months ago) link
Truck Nutz
― Millennium Falco (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 5 July 2024 17:45 (two months ago) link
HistoryTruck nuts began appearing in small numbers as custom-made scrotum sacks in the 1980s.
― visiting, Friday, 5 July 2024 18:04 (two months ago) link
Yes, that's the true golden era of truckcicles. Back when they were lovingly custom-made. Truly artisanal scrotes, before they were popular and quality declined.
― Millennium Falco (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 5 July 2024 18:07 (two months ago) link
The Dollop podcast did a history of the two big rival truck nut companies, pretty good episode iirc
http://thedollop.libsyn.com/360-the-truck-nuts-war-live-in-phoenix
― silverfish, Friday, 5 July 2024 18:15 (two months ago) link
it taught me a lot about america
Only by holding a pair of well-crafted Nutz in your hand can you truly feel the pulse of America
― Millennium Falco (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 5 July 2024 18:34 (two months ago) link
the great thing about scrotums is that when you're done with them you can artisanally repurpose them into, i don't know, outer labia or something
truck labia when
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 5 July 2024 19:03 (two months ago) link
I fear the spirit in which this thread was begat has kind of got lost in the last dozen posts or so.― bae (sic)
― bae (sic)
active shooter drills
i can't believe nobody's said this before
i can't think of anything more american than active shooter drills
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 5 July 2024 20:06 (two months ago) link
The word "shooter".
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Friday, 5 July 2024 20:12 (two months ago) link
Corn Hole and Pickleball
― llurk, Friday, 5 July 2024 20:36 (two months ago) link
knob shots
― z_tbd, Friday, 5 July 2024 20:39 (two months ago) link
clarification: knob shots off the back of a baseball bat on the sandlot
Thing is, beanbag-toss games have been around for a long time. Only recently did people take this humble county-fair or school-field-day game and call it "cornhole." I blame 90s/00s frat culture.
Because hyuk hyuk it sounds a little juvenilishly scatalogical. Hyuk hyuk. O my sides, so funny, etc., especially on the thousandth repetition. Thanks, Beavis.
― Millennium Falco (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 5 July 2024 21:04 (two months ago) link
The word "shooter".― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.)
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.)
do you not have oyster shooters over there
also: root beer, apparently
y'all are missing out
in indiana _only_ potlucks are called pitch-ins
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 5 July 2024 21:26 (two months ago) link
No, I meant as in active shooter. They'd be called a gunmen over here - because, let's face it, they're always men.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Friday, 5 July 2024 21:30 (two months ago) link
according to that "gender neutral language" meme the gender neutral version of that would be "gunfighter"
petition to make them play "the ballad of the last chance saloon" every time there's a mass shooting
if that doesn't fix things, well, i don't know, restricting access to firearms might do something. i guess we'll never know, though.
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 5 July 2024 21:59 (two months ago) link
Jarts
― 145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 5 July 2024 22:12 (two months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D1nA7GGj_Y
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 18 July 2024 22:41 (two months ago) link
they seem like they are sitting... too close
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 19 July 2024 08:25 (two months ago) link
Sitting too close, an American thing.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Friday, 19 July 2024 08:41 (two months ago) link
Celebrity roasts
― visiting, Friday, 19 July 2024 23:27 (two months ago) link
This is a directory for some children's rodeo in Utah and ,boy , these names are fucking AMAZING pic.twitter.com/WTFpacpl6p— Blockhead (@BlockheadNYC) July 17, 2024
― StanM, Saturday, 20 July 2024 02:17 (two months ago) link
Don't forget the ladies of Utah pic.twitter.com/4aTbFADXyV— Blockhead (@BlockheadNYC) July 17, 2024
Sure but tis no Bobson Dugnutt.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 23 July 2024 10:56 (two months ago) link
Sleve McDichael behbeh
― rick beato meato manifesto (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 23 July 2024 13:28 (two months ago) link
I don't know, imagine someday meeting a real person named "Raygun Steele"
― silverfish, Tuesday, 23 July 2024 13:53 (two months ago) link
Also there's a girl there named "Remington Anderson" so if she later marries Raygun and takes his name...
― silverfish, Tuesday, 23 July 2024 13:55 (two months ago) link
stunned by the bizarre American name "Lars Christensen" wtf
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Tuesday, 23 July 2024 13:59 (two months ago) link
Kashlee
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 23 July 2024 16:22 (two months ago) link
Kashlee Osai-Howbadah
― rick beato meato manifesto (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 23 July 2024 16:24 (two months ago) link
god these lists are good
one cosmic mystery among many here is the three variations on "hayes" for the boys including "haze" and .. "hayze". haze as in, what, weed smoke? hazy ipa? the effect of 20,000 dodge rams being driven every day in a utah mountain valley? 👻
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Tuesday, 23 July 2024 20:22 (two months ago) link
and the '-lee' girls names just continue to explore new horizons and go where no redneck has gone before
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Tuesday, 23 July 2024 20:26 (two months ago) link
These lists were killing me when I saw them last night.
― silverfish, Tuesday, July 23, 2024 9:53 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
I'm sorry but even though it's insane that is just the sickest name. The Haze's confused me too. It's all so Utah which is essentially it's own planet.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 24 July 2024 12:35 (two months ago) link
I mentioned Svengoolie to mark s on bluesky just now which made me wonder if ~this kind of thing~ is a definitively American thing? and if so what do non-Americans think of MST3K (do they think of MST3K)?
― rob, Thursday, 25 July 2024 14:24 (two months ago) link
one cosmic mystery among many here is the three variations on "hayes" for the boys including "haze" and .. "hayze". haze as in, what, weed smoke? hazy ipa? the effect of 20,000 dodge rams being driven every day in a utah mountain valley? 👻― he/him hoo-hah (map)
― he/him hoo-hah (map)
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2Ry9UZ8l5IM/maxresdefault.jpg
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 25 July 2024 14:55 (two months ago) link
What is it?
― Defund Phil Collins (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 July 2024 14:57 (two months ago) link
... does that answer the question!
i love that shit, where you see pride colors before the flags were invented. i think sock dreams has non-binary thigh-high socks that look like what kate garner's wearing there.
I'm sorry but even though it's insane that is just the sickest name. The Haze's confused me too.
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It's all so Utah which is essentially it's own planet.― Benson and the Jets (ENBB)
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB)
they call it "deseret", they have their own alphabet too
https://rsc.byu.edu/sites/default/files/pub_content/image/1008/deseret_alphabet.jpg
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 25 July 2024 15:02 (two months ago) link
my late wife showed me some MS3TK and tbh I didn't get it at all. basically they show some old trashy b-movie and crack really lame jokes over the top of it or just laugh at the bad special effects. I would sit there going I'd rather just watch the trashy movie on its own and laugh at it myself than listen to this rubbish
maybe a forerunner of those youtube/tiktok "some dickhead reacts to something" videos?
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 25 July 2024 15:20 (two months ago) link
I'm not the best person to answer though tbf, if something's not been on terrestrial TV then I've not seen it.
― Defund Phil Collins (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 July 2024 15:25 (two months ago) link
Yes, MS3TK and its offshoots seem like the most bafflingly popular American things ever, and the guys who do the commentaries are like the most awful people in the world - smug, condescending, and so NOT FUNNY. The movies they talk over are invariably more interesting, strange, amusing than anything they ever have to say; they don't even seem to have any great knowledge of, or affection for, for the things they sneer at. And apparently one of them is a born again Trump supporter, just to seal the deal.
The UK has definitely never really had 'horror hosts' like Ghoulardi or Elvira; pre-movie introductions, when they existed, tended to be more sober or 'specialist' (eg Judith Williamson introducing a noir season on BBC2, or Peter Cowie curating a Bergman season for Thames TV).
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 25 July 2024 15:30 (two months ago) link
bafflingly popular
? Even in the US, MST3K was only a niche thing for nerds. It was never Friends/Seinfeld popular. It wasn't even Darla popular.
― Millennium Falco (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 25 July 2024 15:32 (two months ago) link
(xp) Talking Pictures has Caroline Munro on Friday nights!
― Defund Phil Collins (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 July 2024 15:35 (two months ago) link
Good one!
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 25 July 2024 15:47 (two months ago) link
I was always aware of it but never thought about it before but I noticed this morning the two different ways to pronounce "adult" - a 'British' way (stress on the first syllable) and an 'American' way (stress on the second syllable). You do hear both in the UK though.
― Defund Phil Collins (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 July 2024 06:18 (one month ago) link
Oh mst3k was definitely niche. Not popular at all.
I’m sure I wouldn’t enjoy it that much if I saw it today, but for our younger posters, it’s important to understand that there was no such thing as “just watch the movie and laugh at it yourself.” There was no way to access these bizarre low budget sci fi failures. You couldn’t rent them at your local blockbuster. If you had an indie video store maybe it would have a few of the more famous ones like Plan 9. I don’t even know if most of them had ever been put on video. So the movies themselves were 90% of the appeal and I guess the commentary gave it a little more energy since those movies can drag. I thought their jokes were funny when I was a kid but it was mostly just about how bad and weird the movies were.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 30 July 2024 12:07 (one month ago) link
Ned should ban all you anti MST people.
― Bad Bairns (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 30 July 2024 12:17 (one month ago) link
I don't think anyone's under the impression mst3k is like Friends in the US but if you were a non-American millenial w/ geeky interests it certainly registered as something that a) all the US ppl were into and b) didn't have much cultural cachet elsewhere.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 30 July 2024 13:17 (one month ago) link
Austin had/has a live version called Master Pancake - comedians commenting on a movie while it's running. I think they do big-budget famous movies too.
― Millennium Falco (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 30 July 2024 13:53 (one month ago) link
not sure if it became clear or not, but Tom the "thing" I was referring to was the super campy horror host phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_host. And MST3K was a parody of that format
― rob, Tuesday, 30 July 2024 13:55 (one month ago) link
I didn't know what MST3K was.
― Defund Phil Collins (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 July 2024 14:07 (one month ago) link
I likd MST3k but was never obsessed with it. Talking horror hosts and things I WAS obsessed with - USA's Up All Night. Would love to see an ep with Gilbert and some Troma film. They're prob on you tube. Will look tonight.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 30 July 2024 14:51 (one month ago) link
mike era mst3k had a lot of affection for the films and the humor / personas were generally good-natured afaict. arguing that the main appeal of mst3k was the old movies themselves is .. idk, that definitely wasn't my experience as a teenager discovering it.
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Tuesday, 30 July 2024 15:42 (one month ago) link
taking sides: Peter Cowie on Bergman's "faith trilogy" or Joel Robinson on "Attack of the Giant Leeches"
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 30 July 2024 19:48 (one month ago) link
We discussed the mst3k thing a couple of years ago (I think it was on the NOT FUNNY thread) it’s def an American thing and maybe a “you really, really had to be there” thing in general. Bafflingly popular is right not because it’s as big as Seinfeld but because the reverence its gen x nerd fans have for it feels… disproportionate, to say the least
― keep kamala and khive on (wins), Tuesday, 30 July 2024 20:04 (one month ago) link
I know at least one guy who still follows all the mst3k-associated stuff, goes to events, etc.I don’t get it! In the 90s it was niche and kind of a guide for teens on how you can goof on movies and make up silly little bits. As an adult, I’m halfway between thinking “yes, I have some friends and if we want to watch something while socializing, I could just have people over” and “good god it’s annoying when friends won’t shut up during a movie”I think it’s overall healthier than posting on social media about how a major studio has betrayed you by making their billion dollar franchise woke, but it’s such a meta cut-out of engaging with movies. I can make my own terrible jokes and voices
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 30 July 2024 23:13 (one month ago) link
I'd say there's 1000x more Monty Python fans in the U.S. than there are MST3K fans.
100x more Young Ones fans even.
― pplains, Wednesday, 31 July 2024 03:30 (one month ago) link
my late wife showed me some MS3TK and tbh I didn't get it at all. basically they show some old trashy b-movie and crack really lame jokes over the top of it or just laugh at the bad special effects. I would sit there going I'd rather just watch the trashy movie on its own and laugh at it myself than listen to this rubbish― Colonel Poo
― Colonel Poo
i was at a movie night a friend put on a couple months ago, and she put on an mst3k short before the movie. and the younger millenials and gen z people there audibly groaned, like, why do you gen x people love this stuff, it's not funny
watching that short i had to agree with them - it really wasn't very funny
i loved the show when i was young and i think a lot of it came out of the cultural context. the thing for me was that the show itself was low-budget, cheap, and trashy. a lot of the movies they watched were also pretty slow-paced and boring. "manos" is a pretty boring movie. was "the day the earth froze" a boring movie? no, not at all. all the jokes about "sampo", you know, they didn't make the film actually better. that said, it wasn't a film you'd ever really get to see on us television. there was this crate-digging aspect where they'd find some pretty interesting films. particularly black and white films, which you just didn't see on US television around that time.
the aesthetic was also... it's probably the best-known example of a "UHF" show. weird al yankovic made an entire movie about it, and the truth is, most shows weren't that interesting. MST3K was an outlier as a show that started on an independent low-budget UHF station that was interesting. it had this distinctly upper midwestern sort of comedy. it seldom came across as truly mean-spirited because of the regional aspect. they'd make fun of yoopers, stuff like that.
anyway, it... i mean, in the context of the times, it was funny. nowadays, watching a show where a lot of the appeal is snide references to bob dornan (who, i should be clear, they were _well justified_ in being snide towards)...
the other thing is that a lot of these people are deeply knowledgeable about niche media. frank conniff, tv's frank - he's great on twitter, i don't use twitter but whenever i see one of his tweets he's great. he's just this really sweet nerd guy who has a comprehensive knowledge of 1960s and 1970s television. again, it's that perspective, that deep well of knowledge of trash media. they made fun of dick contino and also would point out "god, dick contino's blues by james ellroy is a great novella". which it is. ellroy, i mean, a got a friend who grew up loving ellroy and he says ellroy hasn't held up either.
shit, you know who's super fucking american? william t. vollman. that kind of fucked up person (not derogatory) really only seems possible in america, in the context of america's whole fucked up "world superpower" thing. i guess that's not a "thing" exactly.
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 31 July 2024 12:13 (one month ago) link
There were so many shows of that era with a similar vibe that prob fall totally flat now. Remember Sifl and Olly? I was obsessed with The State at one point. Bet that wouldn't translate so well now. PP otm. Thinking of my friends in my late teens/early 20s and I knew several ppl who were obsessed with the Young Ones.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 31 July 2024 12:46 (one month ago) link
fwiw B also showed me Sifl & Olly and the State amongst others and I did find those funny (at least sometimes, I'm sure some of the references went over my head). this was 20 years ago so dunno if they'd hold up now. it was just MS3TK that I remember being like, can we turn this off this is just annoying me now
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 31 July 2024 12:54 (one month ago) link
Xp The State had some bits that definitely still hold up for me! But I can kind of see what you mean, it was a bit of a UHF vibe show, like watching a bunch of your dorky college friends goof off or something. The shittiness was part of the appeal, the “found” quality of it.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 31 July 2024 12:57 (one month ago) link
Yes - exactly!
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 31 July 2024 13:22 (one month ago) link
The State didn’t seem that different from any other 90s sketch comedy show to me but maybe I was just a weird kid.
― brimstead, Wednesday, 31 July 2024 14:14 (one month ago) link
it had this distinctly upper midwestern sort of comedy. it seldom came across as truly mean-spirited because of the regional aspect. they'd make fun of yoopers, stuff like that.
― bae (sic), Wednesday, 31 July 2024 14:19 (one month ago) link
ben garant grew up in east tennessee… idk about the rest of them
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 31 July 2024 14:21 (one month ago) link
The shittiness was part of the appeal, the “found” quality of it.have to agree with this, esp. since my first experience with The State was a VHS that was copied from another VHS and passed around dorm rooms in college.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 31 July 2024 14:27 (one month ago) link
That’s so funny, my first experience of it was an nth generation vhs my friend bought off eBay
― brimstead, Wednesday, 31 July 2024 14:30 (one month ago) link
x-post I mean I think it was just a lot more absurd and low budget than the others. Idk - it felt that way to me at the time.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 31 July 2024 14:34 (one month ago) link
mst3k originated in Minnesota, which.. makes sense
Remember Sifl and Olly?
really outing my age/locale here, but I have another friend who has been trying to convince people that Sifl and Olly are the best thing ever for the last decade. presumably doing so to his adopted teen these days
the friend in high school who was most enthusiastic about MST3K also was into The State and S&O. I think it's extremely late gen x/elder millennial coded, and I wonder if half of it is that we just didn't have anything better at that point. Space Ghost Coast to Coast was probably the only thing that had a lifespan, and I'd guess that a lot of the early fans were very MST3K-adjacent, in my experience
I was kind of divorced from half of these things due to not having cable tv (and broadly avoiding tv as a late teen due to internet). If it wasn't in syndication on a local broadcast channel or an insanely low-resolution video that made the rounds on the internet, I picked it up via osmosis
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 31 July 2024 14:36 (one month ago) link
lol i just remembered I quoted The State in my high school senior yearbook.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 31 July 2024 14:37 (one month ago) link
My friends were way into Sifl and Oly. I still think of the phrase “crescent fresh” a lot.
― brimstead, Wednesday, 31 July 2024 14:42 (one month ago) link
I think of llama school a lot
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 31 July 2024 14:46 (one month ago) link
the friend in high school who was most enthusiastic about MST3K also was into The State and S&O. I think it's extremely late gen x/elder millennial coded, and I wonder if half of it is that we just didn't have anything better at that point. Space Ghost Coast to Coast was probably the only thing that had a lifespan, and I'd guess that a lot of the early fans were very MST3K-adjacent, in my experienceI was kind of divorced from half of these things due to not having cable tv (and broadly avoiding tv as a late teen due to internet). If it wasn't in syndication on a local broadcast channel or an insanely low-resolution video that made the rounds on the internet, I picked it up via osmosis― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh)
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh)
oh yes, i remember spending my sophomore year of college slowly dying of gender dysphoria, avoiding class, shitposting on usenet, and watching mst3k and space ghost on the dorm cable. my cable system back home didn't have comedy central or cartoon network back then. joel hodgson wrote that one episode of sgc2c, "$20.01 - a space ghost odyssey". maybe it doesn't hold up, but i still quote space ghost's response to bobcat goldthwait asking him "do you think i'm pretty?"
"Hmmm... Yes! I think you're pretty! You're a pretty man!"
idk, that line just stuck with me. i mean, why _can't_ someone be a pretty man, you know?
i do still have my pirated .rm copies of the later episodes of space ghost.
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 31 July 2024 20:00 (one month ago) link
the bobcat goldthwait episode of sgc2c is pretty good, though. maybe not up there with the best few, but he definitely had a persona that was meant for guesting on that show
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 31 July 2024 20:38 (one month ago) link
Good news: I'm seeing a lot more Harris/Walz lawn signs.
― Kim Kimberly, Monday, 9 September 2024 20:12 (two weeks ago) link