American things

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?)

It is, yes

Tom said theater, not theatre.

LOL, American guy in my work keeps calling me Sir.

maybe he thinks you're a knight. everyone in Great England is, right?

he's being polite, be nice

tell him he's a spineless boot licker and that the class war is real

These Americans and their obsession with 'civility', knowwhatimean?

referring to "new wave" when talking about post-punk

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

Celebrate a Sham-Rockin’ St. Patrick’s Day! ☘️

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not sure the theme holds up on the final one tbh but I dunno what game they're talking about

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truly the most disgusting savagery

shamrock pretzels ffs

I dunno what game they're talking about

NCAA men's college basketball tournament (aka "March Madness").

that's an annual game on 17th of March, then?

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have a goo time

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, February 21, 2019 1:21 PM (three weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no, pretty much every american does this

using cornflakes as breading or topping

gas stations with wide selection of beer

graham and craig pronounced gram and crag

creg iirc

crəg

jim, i have friends in the music scene/industry.
none of them use new wave as a synonym
for post punk.

we do say "crayg," though, lol

i'm pretty sure it varies by region

new wave means rock music with keyboards
post punk means sounds like joy division

i wish post punk meant sounds like pere ubu or the raincoats but no it's always joy division

but i've never known anyone to use those terms interchangeably

graham and craig pronounced gram and crag

Ceecil

... hold on, I've done that one before.

that shepherds pie looks legit

its incredible to me they just cannot get the paddys thing right tho

paddys
paddys day
st patricks day

thats it. there are no other terms.

that shepherds pie looks legit

sweet potatoes?

yeah ive done that its grand

no argument against the noble kumara, just seems less than "legit" as a nostalgic taste of the auld motherland

i have the privilege of not living (or cooking) in the aul wan tbf

Potatoes were a new world import btw

Before potatoes came to Ireland, the Irish mostly just ate leprechauns iirc

That's why there are so few leprechauns about, nowadays

Last month I was driving to work and was in a queue behind a traffic light, left the 'keep clear' box in front of me empty, the car behind me drove around my car into the space! I was livid to the point of considering beeping my horn.

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, March 11, 2019 12:02 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Honestly don't know if this is sarcasm or not

Anyway, we honk like migrating geese

North American things.