American things

1. biscuits & gravy
2. rodeo
3. smores or smore’s or smore(s)
4. “a super bowl”
5. stoops
6. speakeasy
7. “high school prom”
8. cheese in a can
9. dr pepper

smore

wtf?

Steely Dan
The Beat Generation

10. "democracy"
11. mac 'n cheese
12. sherrifs

It's s'mores and it's short for some more.

13. those varsity jackets with a big letter on the front
14. propeller beanie hats

15. grits

16. Shriners

https://s.hswstatic.com/gif/shriners-little-cars-1200x800.jpg

monster trucks

bison
bass fishing tournaments
Yellowstone Park

Looney Tunes cartoons

22. tipping

Mate,

https://i.imgur.com/kjgsMLQ.jpg

I mean, don't forget 23. Indigenous Genocide, but, you know.

if we're going down that route let's not forget 24. slavery

and of course 25. egg creams

slavery has existed everywhere for all recorded history. hardly confined to America, although we certainly embraced one of the most brutal forms of it for a couple centuries.

26 white ppl
27 mayonnaise
28 conway twitty
29 all the bad things
30 no good things

31 guns guns guns love guns need guns
32 sabermetrics
33 god

(Holland surely king of mayonnaise though, for better or for worse)

34. (With drawl) PICKUP TRUCK. GIDDY UP COWBOY.

35. 99.9% of all "cultural appropriation"

36. $$$

37. Road Trips
38. Self Help
39. Seminars on how to flip properties with no money down

40. Hawaii

41. Grand slams

42. Brian Wilson

43. drive-in cinemas

44. john cena

(19)45. the atomic bomb

(19)46. Donald John Trump

Just sayin some of these things aren't exclusively American. They're everybody's!

47. Superhero movies for "grownups"

48. jack kirby

49. jack ruby

27 mayonnaise

27 "ranch"

ranch-style houses

Ranch might be the most american word there is. The sound of it, the meaning, the house style, the dressing. It's 100% American.

https://i.imgur.com/IOlj6Lw.jpg

51. Saturday Night Live and dozens of comedy series and comedians no-one's ever heard of.

... no-one else, that is.

Every nation seems to have its b-list comedy that doesn't escape its borders though

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.

52. happy endings
53. late night shows
54. hyper-capitalism
55. "football"
56. "soccer"

Italians
Irish

57. Barack Hussein Obama
58. Velveeta

Misuse of the collective clause when referring to sports teams

Every nation seems to have its b-list comedy that doesn't escape its borders though

Saturday Night Live is b-list?

'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.

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!"

^^

*shites in the loo*

gas stations with wide selection of beer

love this fuckin country

― alomar lines, Thursday, March 14, 2019 10:23 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It is something that has thrilled me

whats american abt bathroom

Maybe they've got beer in them.

Using bathroom to mean the lavatory as opposed to the room you bathe in is what’s being referred to there

calumy (rip van wanko) at 3:18 15 Mar 19

Last month I was driving to work and was in a queue behind a traffic light, left the 'keep clear' box in front of me empty, the car behind me drove around my car into the space! I was livid to the point of considering beeping my horn.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, March 11, 2019 12:02 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Honestly don't know if this is sarcasm or not

gas stations with wide selection of beer

love this fuckin country

― alomar lines, Thursday, March 14, 2019 10:23 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It is something that has thrilled me

― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Sunday, 17 March 2019 6:22 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Varies by state, the fucking palava you have to go through to buy a six pack of beer and a bag of chips in Pennsylvania was another infuriating and very American.

Fun fact, the literal meaning of "lavatory" is also "a room for washing", they are equivalent. At least Australians use "dunny" which derives from a word meaning "dung house".

tbh I don't know anyone who says "lavatory" either, it's toilets/loos/bogs afaik

bathroom

Using bathroom to mean the lavatory as opposed to the room you bathe in is what’s being referred to there

yeah but “toilet” means the room you dress or wash in, it’s modern polite euphemisms replacing now-seen-as-coarse-euphemisms all the way down

i'm reading harry potter to my kids and they keep saying "bathroom". now, jk rowling's english, and these kids are clearly intended to be english (king's cross station etc) - so what gives? has the editor americanized these words because of the larger american market for these books? or is there an actual american edition?? (struggling to think of what else might have been changed in this case, presumably a few passing references to graham crackers and rodeos)

restroom

Using bathroom to mean the lavatory as opposed to the room you bathe in

"Lavatory" is derived from, let's see, "lavatorium," and from "lavare," which means to wash or bathe.

Is there an "oh let's laugh at the stupid Americans" point that I am missing here?

"Hunsecker... to the lavatorium - at once!!"

I know the etymology of lavatory duh. I was just clarifying why ppl were mentioning bathroom itt because deems asked “what’s American about bathroom”. Outside of the us it’s less common to use “bathroom” for a room that only contains a toilet and sink (ie no bath or shower). That’s what ppl are saying is American.

Restroom is also used a lot, and as far as I know not many people retreat to the dunghouse to rest

I believe that would be an ecumenical matter, for resolution on a “shitting at work” thread

restrooms are public bathrooms

is there an actual american edition??

yes-- pudding becomes dessert etc. (and obv philosopher becomes sorcerer).

read an article once about the process and they talked about leaving in colloquialisms where they could be understood from context and added that vital tone of twee exotica: the example i remember was someone saying "she got a bit shirty with me".

[80 degrees or higher]

you kids wanna shaved ice??

Dudes going to work wearing business casual and their fave baseball team’s cap.

In USA the toilet water is very very high - I can only assume this is done deliberately, to accomodate the monster shits done by its people.

— nina oyama (@ninaoyama) May 29, 2019

smiling

I take big shits and I cannot lie

This classic in the comments

https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/7qn75k/poop_knife_from_reddit/

not clicking on that url.

wise move, I am full of regret

Masseuse rhymes with moose
Entrée = main course
"with au jus"

the wursthaus in harvard square famously (to my dad) used to serve "chili con carne - mit beans"

Entrée did confuse me the first time I saw it

It confused me too – but I was an American in Australia.

Entrée still infuriates me every time

Minutes after reading that post I also heard an American refer to “dipping a sandwich in au jus”

what does masseuse rhyme with in the old empire?

hers

how do you say masseur? mass oo-er?

we have high toilet water and entrees in canada too unforch

Mah-sir
Mah-soos

what does masseuse rhyme with in the old empire?

― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, June 20, 2019 6:43 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hers

― The Pingularity (ledge), Thursday, June 20, 2019 7:09 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I mean, there's no "r" there. Plus, it looks like Dr. Seuss.

Well you do say dool for duel after all. For example. Talking of American things.

there's masseuse and masseur. female and male.

Well you do say dool for duel after all. For example. Talking of American things.

― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Thursday, June 20, 2019 7:19 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

What do you guys say - drool?

Duel

You don't say fool for fuel, after all.

hers

― The Pingularity (ledge), Thursday, June 20, 2019 3:09 PM (forty-three minutes ago)

how do you say masseur? mass oo-er?

― The Pingularity (ledge), Thursday, June 20, 2019 3:11 PM (forty-one minutes ago)

classic Britishism -- "if we bungle the pronunciation badly enough, maybe people will forget that it's a loanword"

(TIL about hyperforeignism)

I mean, there's no "r" there. Plus, it looks like Dr. Seuss.

I may have some exciting news for you about the pronunciation of American author Theodor Geisel’s middle name

classic Britishism -- "if we bungle the pronunciation badly enough, maybe people will forget that it's a loanword"

yeah, it still doesn't rhyme with moose.

68. 'erbs

― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:57 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Although herb has always been spelled with an h, pronunciation without it was usual until the 19th century and is still standard in the US.