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.
― Never mind the bollards (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 13 September 2018 20:04 (five years ago) link
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
― faculty w1fe (silby), Thursday, 13 September 2018 20:08 (five years ago) link
All the doors are reclaimed for use in furniture now
― faculty w1fe (silby), Thursday, 13 September 2018 20:09 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS-af9Q-zvQ
― Never mind the bollards (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 13 September 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
This reminds of a very American thing I noticed after house hunting a couple times: no over head lights in living rooms.
― just1n3, Friday, 14 September 2018 04:27 (five years ago) link
ugh yes this is my life :(
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 14 September 2018 13:59 (five years ago) link
Always been 50/50 for me... Granted, the light is usually part of a ceiling fan.
― pplains, Saturday, 15 September 2018 00:56 (five years ago) link
big lamp™️ is behind it all, imo
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 15 September 2018 02:50 (five years ago) link
griddleskillet
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 21 September 2018 19:57 (five years ago) link
^^^^
smorewtf?― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, February 4, 2018 11:35 AM (seven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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.
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Friday, 21 September 2018 21:13 (five years ago) link
Sorry, S'mores, I still don't know what they are, some kind of dessert?
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Friday, 21 September 2018 21:15 (five years ago) link
graham cracker base layer, piece of chocolate bar layer, toasted marshmallow layer, graham cracker top layer
its a treat
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Saturday, 22 September 2018 03:36 (five years ago) link
the s'more is the context that allows Hershey's chocolate to actually make sense
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 22 September 2018 03:41 (five years ago) link
don't forget the twig, the campfire and a little camping chair outside the tent
― F# A# (∞), Saturday, 22 September 2018 03:44 (five years ago) link
countries that liked american things in 2017:
http://www.pewglobal.org/database/indicator/1/survey/19/
― F# A# (∞), Saturday, 22 September 2018 03:45 (five years ago) link
― 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.
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Saturday, 22 September 2018 03:47 (five years ago) link
get a loada this guy
― F# A# (∞), Saturday, 22 September 2018 03:49 (five years ago) link
fire pits at the beach are good too
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 22 September 2018 03:50 (five years ago) link
S’mores are overrated
― calstars, Saturday, 22 September 2018 03:50 (five years ago) link
Roasted mellows ok, fuck a graham cracker. Maybe some chocolate later.
― calstars, Saturday, 22 September 2018 03:51 (five years ago) link
graham crackers
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Saturday, 22 September 2018 06:59 (five years ago) link
roasted mellows
graham cracker
do you mean a gram cracker
― Bitty Gingham Sheet (sic), Saturday, 22 September 2018 07:43 (five years ago) link
graham crackers are good i love smores
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 22 September 2018 15:01 (five years ago) link
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!"
― Eight-Tenths Bigamy (sic), Friday, 26 October 2018 16:10 (five years ago) link
they pipe NO2 into those studios iirc
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Friday, 26 October 2018 16:17 (five years ago) link
angry to learn about cheeses that do not come in a highly convenient spray can
― riposte malone (King Boy Pato), Friday, 26 October 2018 22:53 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWRJTgvhNd0
― pplains, Saturday, 27 October 2018 01:28 (five years ago) link
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.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Saturday, 27 October 2018 01:32 (five years ago) link
Using the word 'theater' for a cinema.
― It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christ (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 10:17 (five years ago) link
... or "the pictures", as it's called in Scotland.
― It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christ (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 10:19 (five years ago) link
― 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).
― glumdalclitch, Thursday, 13 December 2018 10:50 (five years ago) link
-- any indoor purpose-built structure, I guess I should add
― glumdalclitch, Thursday, 13 December 2018 10:52 (five years ago) link
Ah, that could be it.
― It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christ (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 10:55 (five years ago) link
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?)
― sans lep (sic), Thursday, 13 December 2018 11:36 (five years ago) link
It is, yes
― Number None, Thursday, 13 December 2018 11:49 (five years ago) link
Tom said theater, not theatre.
― ✈️✈️ (pplains), Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:20 (five years ago) link
LOL, American guy in my work keeps calling me Sir.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 19:10 (five years ago) link
maybe he thinks you're a knight. everyone in Great England is, right?
― sans lep (sic), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 19:15 (five years ago) link
he's being polite, be nice
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 19:28 (five years ago) link
tell him he's a spineless boot licker and that the class war is real
― ogmor, Thursday, 24 January 2019 09:00 (five years ago) link
These Americans and their obsession with 'civility', knowwhatimean?
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 January 2019 09:08 (five years ago) link
referring to "new wave" when talking about post-punk
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 21 February 2019 20:25 (five years ago) link
i recall watching vh1 as a child and remember they would say new wave was influenced by post punk
i don't hear anyone with a serious interest in music use the genres interchangeably
with music genres, though, there are so many dilettantes and uninitiated that it wouldn't surprise me if non-americans made this mistake, too
― John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, Thursday, 21 February 2019 21:21 (five years ago) link
Celebrate a Sham-Rockin’ St. Patrick’s Day! ☘️
https://i.imgur.com/kuOLGbe.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/adRdrde.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/SVnbqHK.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/dDip85m.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/IBIzQro.jpg
not sure the theme holds up on the final one tbh but I dunno what game they're talking about
https://i.imgur.com/ebG06d3.jpg
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 20:32 (five years ago) link
truly the most disgusting savagery
― kiss me dadly (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 20:33 (five years ago) link
shamrock pretzels ffs
― kiss me dadly (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 20:34 (five years ago) link
I dunno what game they're talking about
NCAA men's college basketball tournament (aka "March Madness").
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 20:36 (five years ago) link
that's an annual game on 17th of March, then?
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 21:17 (five years ago) link
https://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.27705292.1551034428!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_768/image.jpg
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 21:22 (five years ago) link