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65. institutional racism perfected
66. bumper stickers
67. trailer parks

― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:53 (eight years ago)

Italians
Irish

-darraghmac


First thing i was gonna post itt was

Canadians

― 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)

The hospital?

― 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. Bros
74. Dudes
75. 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)

Terror of the word cunt

― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Monday, 5 February 2018 00:57 (eight years ago)

Italians
Irish


i’ve never understood this

― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:10 (eight years ago)

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 (eight years ago)

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 (eight years ago)

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 (eight years ago)

and citizenship rights

― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:21 (eight years ago)

anyway i intended this thread to be light so

79. hoagie

― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:21 (eight years ago)

Wait do the yanks to that or do we do that

― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:22 (eight years ago)

p sure you don’t do that

― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:23 (eight years ago)

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 (eight years ago)

If ever u mean

― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:28 (eight years ago)

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 (eight years ago)

Tomatoes

Tobacco

Potatoes

Pumpkins

Peanuts

― this machine inconveniences fascists (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:36 (eight years ago)

Chocolate

YOU'RE WELCOME

― this machine inconveniences fascists (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:37 (eight years ago)

Yeah look no

― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:50 (eight years ago)

Nice try but

― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:50 (eight years ago)

Porn? Who invented it idk probably Californians

― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:54 (eight years ago)

the Marine Corps Band playing "Hail to the Chief"

― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 5 February 2018 06:07 (eight years ago)

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

hm.

― (the blues version in his Broadway show) (crüt), Monday, 5 February 2018 06:40 (eight years ago)

Cap'n Crunch

― Badgers (dog latin), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 10:16 (eight years ago)

Is this the most active cogh thread ever

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 11:17 (eight years ago)

Lunar landing modules
Nukes
ARPANET
ICANN
Search engines
Wikis
BSD
Unix

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 11:22 (eight years ago)

Facebook
Twitter
PRISM
Techno
Star Wars

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 11:25 (eight years ago)

Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac) at 7:57 4 Feb 18

Terror of the word cunt
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.

― how's life, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 11:27 (eight years ago)

Superheroes
Super Bowls
Superbad
Superfortress

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 11:28 (eight years ago)

tex-mex
the monroe doctrine
paintball
muddin'
american exceptionalism
gallagher
prosperity gospel
npr tote bags

― Men's Scarehouse - "You're gonna like the way you're shook." (m bison), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 12:05 (eight years ago)

laser tag

― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 16:00 (eight years ago)

RVs

― ciderpress, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 17:16 (eight years ago)

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 (eight years ago)

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 (eight years ago)

weird old dudes that call their wife "mother"
super big gulps

― Shitpost in Opposition (King Boy Pato), Saturday, 10 February 2018 11:10 (eight years ago)

fat kids

― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Saturday, 10 February 2018 16:26 (eight years ago)

Ahistorical nonsense disproven by the most cursory of searches

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17355779/

― El Tomboto, Saturday, 10 February 2018 16:34 (eight years ago)

That appalling "podcast voice"

― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Saturday, 10 February 2018 21:24 (eight years ago)

you're going to need to narrow that down

― Haribo Hancock (sic), Saturday, 10 February 2018 21:44 (eight years ago)

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 (eight years ago)

.....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 (eight years ago)

i struggle tbh

― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 11 February 2018 02:51 (eight years ago)

Jews

― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Sunday, 11 February 2018 05:52 (eight years ago)

Ice water

― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Sunday, 11 February 2018 05:52 (eight years ago)


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