American things

[80 degrees or higher]

you kids wanna shaved ice??

Dudes going to work wearing business casual and their fave baseball team’s cap.

In USA the toilet water is very very high - I can only assume this is done deliberately, to accomodate the monster shits done by its people.

— nina oyama (@ninaoyama) May 29, 2019

smiling

I take big shits and I cannot lie

This classic in the comments

https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/7qn75k/poop_knife_from_reddit/

not clicking on that url.

wise move, I am full of regret

Masseuse rhymes with moose
Entrée = main course
"with au jus"

the wursthaus in harvard square famously (to my dad) used to serve "chili con carne - mit beans"

Entrée did confuse me the first time I saw it

It confused me too – but I was an American in Australia.

Entrée still infuriates me every time

Minutes after reading that post I also heard an American refer to “dipping a sandwich in au jus”

what does masseuse rhyme with in the old empire?

hers

how do you say masseur? mass oo-er?

we have high toilet water and entrees in canada too unforch

Mah-sir
Mah-soos

what does masseuse rhyme with in the old empire?

― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, June 20, 2019 6:43 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hers

― The Pingularity (ledge), Thursday, June 20, 2019 7:09 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I mean, there's no "r" there. Plus, it looks like Dr. Seuss.

Well you do say dool for duel after all. For example. Talking of American things.

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.

68. 'erbs

― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:57 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Although herb has always been spelled with an h, pronunciation without it was usual until the 19th century and is still standard in the US.

I do love how Americans pronounce bay-zil - especially being a neuroscience guy so it's a homophone for "basal ganglia" which always gives me a smile.

Anyway I came here for "padiddle" - who even HAS a word for a car with one headlight working, let alone something as loony as that?

not to be confused with the paradiddle

"padiddle" - who even HAS a word for a car with one headlight working, let alone something as loony as that?

not me. I've never run across "padiddle" ever anywhere, in conversation or in print, and I know a lot of words.

nope me neither

and I drive one

I have heard of “padiddle” but not as a word for a car with a headlight out but as something you say when you see one.

It’s a road trip game basically, I forget what the forfeit is if your seatmate says it before you.

here on Australia we have "spotto" which is what one says when one sees a yellow car; "hippo" is a variant for weird colours like purple

*in

no, spotto is a game where you are hunting for other humans in the bush at night with a handheld torch

true, I take it you were in the Scouts as well sic

scouts, DofE, a my-school-specific program called Adventure Country, etc

spent a weekend in the bush every two months or so from sixth grade. at 16 we were just getting dropped in the desert near the NSW/Qld border, with girls from another school and a map, with a rendezvous point to meet adults/vans at five days later. have to wonder if that still goes on in a cell phone era

that is frickin awesome

Australian things thread needed.

here on Australia we have "spotto" which is what one says when one sees a yellow car

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The regional variant I'm familiar with was 'perdiddle' and the first to spot and call one out gave the other a sock in the arm. Thanks for dredging up high school memories I'd thought were well and truly suppressed.

the fires of perdiddle

Had a feeling that my padiddle reference would not be universally recognized, even among Americans tbh.

When we see a Wallflowers car, we hit each other in the upper arm and yell "COCK-EYE".

Padiddle may be regional? In any case it is decently widespread but there are some families & communities that simply don't have that tradition and it just missed them in its distribution. I am not familiar with the variant where you get to punch someone, but I have heard of "punch buggy" where you punch someone's arm if you spot a VW Beetle. I think you have to say the color: "punch buggy blue!" To indicate that you actually did see a specific car.

I think I was a teenager before I heard of either of these. They all sound pretty stupid to me - even pointlessly cruel. But apparently in some circles it's a beloved type of juvenile fun, like yelling "shotgun" or "dibs" or "bags I..."

if you saw a lada you could stab someone

Fog lights do not count as a padiddle even if used as primary lights. There is no such thing as a double padiddle.

See also: Punch buggy