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!"

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.

I do love how Americans pronounce bay-zil - especially being a neuroscience guy so it's a homophone for "basal ganglia" which always gives me a smile.

Anyway I came here for "padiddle" - who even HAS a word for a car with one headlight working, let alone something as loony as that?

not to be confused with the paradiddle

"padiddle" - who even HAS a word for a car with one headlight working, let alone something as loony as that?

not me. I've never run across "padiddle" ever anywhere, in conversation or in print, and I know a lot of words.

nope me neither

and I drive one

I have heard of “padiddle” but not as a word for a car with a headlight out but as something you say when you see one.

It’s a road trip game basically, I forget what the forfeit is if your seatmate says it before you.

here on Australia we have "spotto" which is what one says when one sees a yellow car; "hippo" is a variant for weird colours like purple

*in

no, spotto is a game where you are hunting for other humans in the bush at night with a handheld torch

true, I take it you were in the Scouts as well sic

scouts, DofE, a my-school-specific program called Adventure Country, etc

spent a weekend in the bush every two months or so from sixth grade. at 16 we were just getting dropped in the desert near the NSW/Qld border, with girls from another school and a map, with a rendezvous point to meet adults/vans at five days later. have to wonder if that still goes on in a cell phone era

that is frickin awesome

Australian things thread needed.

here on Australia we have "spotto" which is what one says when one sees a yellow car

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The regional variant I'm familiar with was 'perdiddle' and the first to spot and call one out gave the other a sock in the arm. Thanks for dredging up high school memories I'd thought were well and truly suppressed.

the fires of perdiddle

Had a feeling that my padiddle reference would not be universally recognized, even among Americans tbh.

When we see a Wallflowers car, we hit each other in the upper arm and yell "COCK-EYE".

Padiddle may be regional? In any case it is decently widespread but there are some families & communities that simply don't have that tradition and it just missed them in its distribution. I am not familiar with the variant where you get to punch someone, but I have heard of "punch buggy" where you punch someone's arm if you spot a VW Beetle. I think you have to say the color: "punch buggy blue!" To indicate that you actually did see a specific car.

I think I was a teenager before I heard of either of these. They all sound pretty stupid to me - even pointlessly cruel. But apparently in some circles it's a beloved type of juvenile fun, like yelling "shotgun" or "dibs" or "bags I..."

if you saw a lada you could stab someone

Fog lights do not count as a padiddle even if used as primary lights. There is no such thing as a double padiddle.

See also: Punch buggy

i remember learning about padiddles in high school -- i had never heard of it before, presumably because i was an only child? idk

i thought it was suuuuuuper weird that hitting/punching/socking someone in the car with you was a thing people did for laughs