American things

greemee

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 semester
junior college

darn i forgot the other one

Nonsensical use of “semester” is an English thing we inherited iirc

graham crackers

gray-ham cray-koars

xxp

not sure i'm understanding

i thought most uk universities used terms

gram crack whores

Nevermind, I got it confused with the three halves of the Eton school year

In the UK they have something called “michaelmas”

not since yewtree

In addition to the ‘Michaelmas term’ we have the ‘Hilary term’ which iirc the US also missed out on.

an English thing we inherited

Also true of sophomore, junior, etc.

month/day/year

peanuts in all the candy

peanut butter in all the candy

(which I love btw)

the one area in which usa doesn’t have enough cultural influence

can't believe it took this long for month / day / year to come up, it's so dumb

on zing so can't ctrl +f for fahrenheit

a) peanuts are in barely any of America's mostly-terrible candy

b) peanut butter NEVER is, only a weird gritty peanut-flavoured sugar sludge, occasionally

is your pedantry a bug or a feature, i cant decide

Sem-eye finals of world's championships of sports - the score, five hundred twenty to three hundred four.

I wish actual peanut butter was in this stuff though!

xpost by 15 seconds

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

(xp) he carried an assist and rushed one hundred two yards in 32.7 seconds.

Incomprehensible sports with incomprehensible jargon, is what I'm trying to say. Incomprehensible jargon in general, in fact.

xpost nah it is true that corn syrup is in everything, yr not wrong

maybe we cracked it: corn syrup is the most american thing

Bringing u haribo when u request fruit

even the bread had a buttload of sugar

the cult of 'mexican coke' and its sugar

Space cowboys

Had my first mexican coke yesterday twas like a melted Mr freeze

feisty, flat, coke

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.

Arguing politics with their relatives on FB

Or indeed anybody

Maybe if y'all ate a little more sugar, you'd act a little more sweeter like us.

Month/Day/Year is the worst thing about America, I refuse to use any date format anymore other than YYYY-MM-DD

month day year is so obviously insane and stupid that it's kind of awesome

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

Month/Day/Year is like Minutes/Seconds/Hours, ie insane.

...and therefore awesome?

True tbh

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

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 numbers

antipodeans 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

110. Orange plastic "cheese" slices

sic and silby really getting controversial up in here

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

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.

Oh my god that’s some amateur hour database management right there