36. $$$
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:17 (eight years ago)
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 (eight years ago)
40. Hawaii
― calstars, Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:29 (eight years ago)
41. Grand slams
― calstars, Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:30 (eight years ago)
42. Brian Wilson
― calstars, Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:38 (eight years ago)
43. drive-in cinemas
― soref, Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:42 (eight years ago)
44. john cena
― i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:43 (eight years ago)
(19)45. the atomic bomb
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:44 (eight years ago)
(19)46. Donald John Trump
― infinity (∞), Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:45 (eight years ago)
Just sayin some of these things aren't exclusively American. They're everybody's!
― pplains, Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:45 (eight years ago)
47. Superhero movies for "grownups"
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:46 (eight years ago)
48. jack kirby
― i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:55 (eight years ago)
49. jack ruby
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:55 (eight years ago)
27 mayonnaise
27 "ranch"
― Number None, Sunday, 4 February 2018 22:16 (eight years ago)
ranch-style houses
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 4 February 2018 22:19 (eight years ago)
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 (eight years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/IOlj6Lw.jpg
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Sunday, 4 February 2018 22:28 (eight years ago)
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 (eight years ago)
... 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 (eight years ago)
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 (eight years ago)
52. happy endings53. late night shows54. hyper-capitalism55. "football"56. "soccer"
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 4 February 2018 22:50 (eight years ago)
ItaliansIrish
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Sunday, 4 February 2018 22:51 (eight years ago)
57. Barack Hussein Obama58. Velveeta
― droit au butt (Euler), Sunday, 4 February 2018 22:51 (eight years ago)
Misuse of the collective clause when referring to sports teams
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Sunday, 4 February 2018 22:52 (eight years ago)
Saturday Night Live is b-list?
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:09 (eight years ago)
'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 (eight years ago)
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 (eight years ago)
(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 (eight years ago)
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 (eight years ago)
Clips I've seen look dire though.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:19 (eight years ago)
'Mr. President'
59. gunz
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:23 (eight years ago)
60. Patriotism
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:26 (eight years ago)
61. "GET IN THE HOLE!"
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:28 (eight years ago)
'Math'perfect
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:41 (eight years ago)
62. sports63. the hospital64. vacation
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:47 (eight years ago)
The hospital?
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:51 (eight years ago)
65. institutional racism perfected66. bumper stickers67. trailer parks
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:53 (eight years ago)
ItaliansIrish-darraghmac
― infinity (∞), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:54 (eight years ago)
68. 'erbs
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:57 (eight years ago)
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 (eight years ago)
70. hispanics
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:59 (eight years ago)
― 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 (eight years ago)
71. Mexico, central america, south america
― infinity (∞), Monday, 5 February 2018 00:02 (eight years ago)
72. Porches & yards.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 5 February 2018 00:06 (eight years ago)
73. Bros74. Dudes75. Broads
― calstars, Monday, 5 February 2018 00:17 (eight years ago)
76, Fraternities, sororities.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 5 February 2018 00:19 (eight years ago)
second
― look, he's country's own david bowie- deal with it (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 16 December 2025 06:15 (nine months ago)
iirc dom p display named “incarcerated scarf aces” in response to a wdyll beef
― fall of the house of urrsher (sic), Tuesday, 16 December 2025 08:55 (nine months ago)
Do Americans have to talk so loudly?
― Please play Lou Reed's irritating guitar sounds (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 December 2024 16:38 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
Hate to return to this subject but I'm sitting in the company canteen just and there's one American woman having a conversation with someone else and she is drowning out people who are sitting much nearer to me. I can't make out a word the person she is with is saying, she's like ten times as loud as him
― Wearing red lipstick and maintaining a neutral expression (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 January 2026 10:34 (eight months ago)
Monty Python
― Jonk Raven (dog latin), Wednesday, 14 January 2026 11:06 (eight months ago)
Monny PY-THON
― Jonk Raven (dog latin), Wednesday, 14 January 2026 11:07 (eight months ago)
The Beadles
― Jonk Raven (dog latin), Wednesday, 14 January 2026 11:09 (eight months ago)
Llamasthe Atacama DesertBuilding a new capital city in the wilderness
― ICE = Tonton Macoute (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 14 January 2026 12:59 (eight months ago)
Building a new capital city in the wilderness― ICE = Tonton Macoute (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, January 14, 2026 12:59 PM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglinkhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
― ICE = Tonton Macoute (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, January 14, 2026 12:59 PM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglinkhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
to be fair: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canberra
― Bellend Sebastian (S-), Monday, 9 February 2026 00:12 (seven months ago)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bras%C3%ADlia
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 9 February 2026 00:15 (seven months ago)
i was indeed thinking of Brasilia. Forgot about Canberra though
― Gentler Death Squads Please (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 9 February 2026 00:46 (seven months ago)
wire fraud
― ledge, Sunday, 22 March 2026 09:01 (six months ago)
"No fair" instead of "not fair"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QySzwJvw9Qs
― Tom D, focussed with getting on with the job (Tom D.), Monday, 8 June 2026 21:57 (four months ago)
it’s a weird construction that’s so ingrained that i’ve never realized that it’s weird!
― spandex polka (Hunt3r), Monday, 8 June 2026 23:40 (four months ago)
i'd only use it as exclamation, never in a real sentence, but it is weird
― circles, Tuesday, 9 June 2026 05:03 (three months ago)
On a similar note, saying "on accident" instead "by accident".
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 9 June 2026 06:10 (three months ago)
In the West of Scotland "no" means "not" (and, just for the record, "naw" means "no" (adverb) and "nae" means "no" (adjective)) so that Association song has always sounded quite amusing to me.
― Tom D, focussed with getting on with the job (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 June 2026 07:16 (three months ago)
isn't 'no fair' kind of the same thing as 'no fun'?
― silverfish, Tuesday, 9 June 2026 12:22 (three months ago)
That kind of annoys me too but I get why people say it to mirror “on purpose”
― The Immortal Bird of Avon (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 9 June 2026 12:24 (three months ago)
(xp) Fair is not a noun though, unless you mean a county fair or sumthin'
― Tom D, focussed with getting on with the job (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 June 2026 12:29 (three months ago)
Some good discussion here, including the observation that "no fair," especially when used in its own as an interjection, is often associated with children.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 9 June 2026 13:03 (three months ago)
when I saw the initial post my brain went straight to inventing an etymology that came from "nae fair"
― mh, Tuesday, 9 June 2026 13:57 (three months ago)
Yeah, “NO FAIR” immediately makes me think of Our Gang style kids arguing about marbles or whatever.
― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 10 June 2026 10:59 (three months ago)
It makes me think of the kid in pet sematary
― unclear apocalypse (wins), Wednesday, 10 June 2026 11:02 (three months ago)
Eddie Money.
― Happiness is a warm gurn (Tom D.), Saturday, 3 October 2026 19:23 (five days ago)
good answer
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 4 October 2026 09:20 (four days ago)
oh right I was wondering
― The Ella Langley Schools Music Project (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 4 October 2026 09:23 (four days ago)
In Mexico he’s Eddie Dinero.
― Art Cow (Cow_Art), Sunday, 4 October 2026 12:08 (four days ago)
Then there's the noted French artist Claude Monnaie
― Paprikachu (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 4 October 2026 13:06 (four days ago)
Tom D. OTM
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 4 October 2026 13:57 (four days ago)