American things

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

this is turkish armed forces level of batshit crazy

95. Fantasy football.
96. Fantasy Island.
97. Fantasy by Britney Spears.

Red Gerrard otm

98. Patriot Missile.
99. Patriot Act.
100. Patriot, Indiana.

Town motto: "The FIRST Refuge of Scoundrels"

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 (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.

Saying 'how funny' with dead eyes

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, February 11, 2018 1:39 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I believe it's "funny how"

I welcome solidarity with all high-voiced Levantine nerds xp

in texas at least I heard more "how fun" (with dead eyes) than "how funny" but yeah

101. Mormons
102. Top sheets

103. no doy

Top sheets?

flat sheets. what real men use

pplains was making a goodfellas joke

Goodfellas
Good Humor ice cream (& accompanying vehicles, personnel, etc)
Goodman, John
Goodnight Moon
Goodyear Tires

Girls Gone Wild

My second GoodFellas joke in 12 hours!

Pp two times

military bases literally all over the fucking world. because, that's why

Girls Gone Wild
― sleepingbag, Sunday, February 11, 2018 12:57 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also, the Bang Bus

As opposed to the UK's Jolly Good Trolley

do you like american things
we like all kinds of things
but i like american things best

how are top sheets American though

I was given to understand on other internets that they were unheard of in the Commonwealth

My wife did not grow up in the US and said they didn't use them, just duvets with duvet covers.

turnpikes

idgi, do non-Americans wash their duvet covers every time they change their sheets?

short answer: no

lol change sheets, wash what’s on the bed and put it back on the bed

you can bother with multiple sheets if you really really care about bedroom variety

I have slept in beds in Australia and England and France and Norway and Scotland and Finland and New Zealand with top sheets

I've slept in an Airbnb and a hotel and mostly on a sofa in Canadia but I couldn't swear to the bedding

corndogs
chex mix
half n half
tri-tip
outdated plumbing
shower valves (seriously i HATE this)

cool whip

miracle whip

Garrett's Chicago Mix Popcorn

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?

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 18:09 (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Buckets

Manifest Destiny
Fruit Roll Ups.

Reese's peanut butter cups
peanut butter m&ms
peanut butter and jelly
peanut butter an marshmallow fluff

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?

shower valves

is this a home-owner thing or a UI thing?

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

Tootsie roll
California Roll
Roller Disco
Operation Rolling Thunder

shower valves: in bathtub showers

you 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 shower

it’s weird & silly to me

I think I've seen that in other continents too

it's just a "some baths have this, some baths don't" thing. like one spout or two.

only an east coast problem ime but still American

not only an east coast problem, they are like that in LA as well

maybe not the weirdly short thing, but definitely the so full of water it looks like the toilet's blocked thing

I also hate overly full toilets, seems so wasteful