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

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

Italians
Irish

-darraghmac


First thing i was gonna post itt was

Canadians

infinity (∞), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:54 (seven years ago)

68. 'erbs

Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:57 (seven 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 (seven years ago)

70. hispanics

Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:59 (seven 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 (seven years ago)

71. Mexico, central america, south america

infinity (∞), Monday, 5 February 2018 00:02 (seven years ago)

72. Porches & yards.

Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 5 February 2018 00:06 (seven years ago)

73. Bros
74. Dudes
75. Broads

calstars, Monday, 5 February 2018 00:17 (seven years ago)

76, Fraternities, sororities.

Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 5 February 2018 00:19 (seven years ago)

Terror of the word cunt

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

Italians
Irish


i’ve never understood this

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

and citizenship rights

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

anyway i intended this thread to be light so

79. hoagie

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

Wait do the yanks to that or do we do that

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

p sure you don’t do that

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

If ever u mean

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

Tomatoes

Tobacco

Potatoes

Pumpkins

Peanuts

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

Chocolate

YOU'RE WELCOME

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

Yeah look no

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

Nice try but

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

Porn? Who invented it idk probably Californians

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

the Marine Corps Band playing "Hail to the Chief"

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

Cap'n Crunch

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

Is this the most active cogh thread ever

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

Lunar landing modules
Nukes
ARPANET
ICANN
Search engines
Wikis
BSD
Unix

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

Facebook
Twitter
PRISM
Techno
Star Wars

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

Superheroes
Super Bowls
Superbad
Superfortress

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

laser tag

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

RVs

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

fat kids

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

That appalling "podcast voice"

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

you're going to need to narrow that down

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

i struggle tbh

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

Jews

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

Ice water

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


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