American things

bathroom cubicles i think they mean

*unveils list of american things* so we call those bathroom stalls

Get it right

Sicka “europeans”

Also i never even close the door if I’m inside a stall

Foul

Number 1 not 2 grams

what i love about ilx is that international threads always end up being about poop

de subjectivism aka dutch oven

If only there was a blanket big enough to cover all of ilx

CLOSETS IN BEDROOMS

Is that not more of a....universal thing

If there’s a world with bedrooms without closets i do not want to live in it

is this like closets (built in rooms) vs wardrobes (free standing furniture)? otherwise this non-american is nonplussed.

yes

I seem to recall being told that in the colonial era (talking mid-Atlantic USian here), homes were taxed by the number of doors. So 17th and 18th-century American bedrooms were vastly more likely to have a freestanding wardrobe than a closet.

Now I'm not so sure; maybe it was just far simpler to build rectangular rooms one against another. And the carpentry required for a separate closet was simply too much trouble in an era when people had far fewer clothes.

Even the closets in my 1940ish house are laughably small; a contemporary American person just tends to have a lot more clothes, some of which aren't worn very often. My wife and daughter both have their own; my son and I share his.

afaict it wasn't until the 1970s that walk-in closets became a thing in most homes. The even more lavish his/hers closets mostly date from the McMansion era of the 90s-oughts.

Office cubicles

From the last run of posts, one could conclude that Americanism is a vast plot to remove the doors from offices, and put them instead into houses.

Except we’ve taken a lot of the doors back out of houses in the last 30 years, nobody has had a door on their kitchen for decades

All the doors are reclaimed for use in furniture now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS-af9Q-zvQ

This reminds of a very American thing I noticed after house hunting a couple times: no over head lights in living rooms.

ugh yes this is my life :(

Always been 50/50 for me... Granted, the light is usually part of a ceiling fan.

big lamp™️ is behind it all, imo

griddle
skillet

^^^^

smore

wtf?

― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, February 4, 2018 11:35 AM (seven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Seven months on and my local Morrisons is advertising Smores - I'm not sure if they sell them though.

Sorry, S'mores, I still don't know what they are, some kind of dessert?

graham cracker base layer, piece of chocolate bar layer, toasted marshmallow layer, graham cracker top layer

its a treat

the s'more is the context that allows Hershey's chocolate to actually make sense

don't forget the twig, the campfire and a little camping chair outside the tent

countries that liked american things in 2017:

http://www.pewglobal.org/database/indicator/1/survey/19/

don't forget the twig, the campfire and a little camping chair outside the tent

― F# A# (∞), Friday, September 21, 2018 10:44 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i would not recommend putting these things on a s'mores as it would render it inedible.

get a loada this guy

fire pits at the beach are good too

S’mores are overrated

Roasted mellows ok, fuck a graham cracker. Maybe some chocolate later.

graham crackers

roasted mellows

graham cracker

do you mean a gram cracker

graham crackers are good
i love smores

morning TV hosts currently screaming with laughter at the notion that sales of "American cheese" are slowing bcz "millennials" are aware of cheeses that contain cheese

"Havardy? Havardy."

"Goat brie, wrapped in a fig!"

they pipe NO2 into those studios iirc

angry to learn about cheeses that do not come in a highly convenient spray can

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWRJTgvhNd0

However I feel like one very American thing is the idea of “tastings” and “learning” about cheese, wine, craft beer, sausage, whiskey, pickle relish or whatever. It’s this modern day bougie flipside of our impoverished food culture. It’s still a huge improvement of course.

Using the word 'theater' for a cinema.

... or "the pictures", as it's called in Scotland.

Using the word 'theater' for a cinema.

― It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christ (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 10:17 (thirty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Again though, that's one of those things where British English has changed, whereas Americans are still using English terminology from the 1600s. A theatre was anywhere where audiences watched a performance, including anatomical dissections (we still use surgical theatre, of course).

-- any indoor purpose-built structure, I guess I should add

Ah, that could be it.

Australian usage, too - and there are plenty of standalone theatres, or rooms in art museums, that aren’t dedicated cinemas but show movies sometimes.

(Is the term “lecture theatre” not used in Scotland or England, for a raked-seating room in a university or conference venue?)