American things

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!"

(kind of a dumb comment I guess since Nealon overlapped with Farley and Sandler)

snl national lampoon and mad magazine none funny none ever funny

A or B list, SNL fits that bill surely.

I wouldn't know, I've never seen it.

Clips I've seen look dire though.

'Mr. President'

59. gunz

60. Patriotism

61. "GET IN THE HOLE!"

xp I am the same way with bakery bread or even the fake mass produced grocery-aisle-thawed versions like TJ's ciabatta

And then a Ball Park hamburger or hot dog bun will last 6 years on the windowsill

going to the supermarket when your giant fridge is already 3/4 full of mildly rotting food

maybe it’s just my family but they all do this

One of my finest dad joke moments was when my wife asked me to buy a breadbox, and I said, "how big?"

Mustard is so acidic that it seems unlikely to go bad if not refrigerated. But generally I obey the packaging - if it says "refrigerate after opening," we mostly do so. Because why not? It's harmless.

Peanut butter and honey don't get refrigerated. Jelly/jam/preserves/marmalade/chutney generally do (once opened). Ketchup and relish are generally fridged.

Bread in the refrigerator? Hell no. We might freeze some bread if we have too much but that's rare.

it’s so weird just eat the bread

what about fruit in the fridge? most fruit tastes better cold, imo

This is just to say

I have eaten brimstead's plums

Forgive me

a cold apple can be pretty good. soft fruit should be room temp though imo, sorry bill

kinda prefer grapefruit room temp too

tbf, expat hypercritical of american family is an american thing

lol yes

it’s because they do everything wrong

tbf, expat hypercritical of american family is an american thing

― Sufjan Grafton, Saturday, January 13, 2024 10:23 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

somebody had to say it

Rx is a common abbreviation for medical prescriptions derived from the Latin verb recipere, "take / receive".

Not used in the UK. I mean, I have seen it before but I'm not sure in what context?

I got to thinking about this while waiting for some antibiotics today. Over here it's a given that Rx = precription and you'll see it printed everywhere at the pharmacy. But until today I didn't know why.

*prescription

Because Americans originally spoke classical Latin, duh

exactly, just as Jesus did before discovering America

Jesus bought America, excuse me

It's probably some relic from 18th century English apothecaries.

This is the only place I've seen Rx in the UK:

https://i.imgur.com/YaH6h6p.jpg

Indeed... I was gonna say that the Royal Trux logo makes less sense to those unfamilar with the comman usage of Rx in the US.

"ketchup"

big tough dudes who are scared to be naked or see others naked

_*Rx* is a common abbreviation for medical prescriptions derived from the Latin verb recipere, "take / receive"._

Is this used anywhere outside of the US?

"ketchup"

fuckin right

take your catsup bullshit elsewhere

I regret to inform you that the catsup bullshit is even more American than ketchup

yeah ketchup is tbh widespread

catsup is American and only american that ive ever seen

Except that "ketchup" derives from Dutch/Malay "ketjap." But hey let's not let anything like facts get in the way of cheap anti-US
zings

The etymology of the word ketchup is unclear and has multiple competing theories:

also im not seeing the vicious anti yank zing here but hey

_"ketchup"_

fuckin right

take your catsup bullshit elsewhere

"Catsup" is about as American a word as it's possible to be.

The etymology of the word ketchup is unclear and has multiple competing theories:

i think you meant to quote/link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchup#Etymology .... and, dang!

"Fancy" ketchup

Some ketchup in the U.S. is labeled "Fancy". This is a USDA grade, relating to specific gravity. Fancy ketchup has a higher tomato solid concentration than other USDA grades.

ain't that America!

Said here's your ketchup, fancy don't let me down!

"i think you meant to quote/link"

well how very presumptuous

sure the difference in use of the word "fancy" between USA/UK has led to some hilarious misunderstandings re:costumes at "fancy dress" parties.

cmon you even pasted the colon

like so much digital catsup

xp

i post precisely what i mean to say, nothing more, nothing less!

the Heinz squeeze nozzle of posters

I think the only American I’ve ever heard say “catsup” was Porky Pig