American things

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!"

'Math'

perfect

62. sports
63. the hospital
64. vacation

The hospital?

65. institutional racism perfected
66. bumper stickers
67. trailer parks

Italians
Irish

-darraghmac

68. 'erbs

69. Missing out u's from words and -er endings instead of -re.

70. hispanics

The hospital?

― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, February 4, 2018 6:51 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well if we're contrasting U.S. and UK usage, only we (always) use the definite article

71. Mexico, central america, south america

72. Porches & yards.

73. Bros
74. Dudes
75. Broads

76, Fraternities, sororities.

Terror of the word cunt

Italians
Irish

i’ve never understood this

Well

U wouldn't

Your lot are all British like proper British the hooligan ones like

Never mind the Irish and the Italians, the real American thing is Germans.

xp yeah but i wouldn’t take my heritage to wales and say “hi the welsh! i’m also welsh!” along with assuming all the special powers conferred by being genetically welsh

and citizenship rights

anyway i intended this thread to be light so

79. hoagie

Wait do the yanks to that or do we do that

p sure you don’t do that

SNL at its best (maybe 80s-early 90s) was good

80. Arguments about when, precisely, SNL was good

If ever u mean

Mispronouncing monty python with the confidence of a nation that will eventually decide how to pronounce monty python whatever the fuck anyone thinks

Tomatoes

Tobacco

Potatoes

Pumpkins

Peanuts

Chocolate

YOU'RE WELCOME

Yeah look no

Nice try but

Porn? Who invented it idk probably Californians

the Marine Corps Band playing "Hail to the Chief"

35. 99.9% of all "cultural appropriation"

― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Sunday, February 4, 2018 4:13 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hm.

Cap'n Crunch

Is this the most active cogh thread ever

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.