American things

calling a toilet a “half-bath”

claiming to be middle class, no matter what you do for a living, or what your net worth is

ritualistic vehicular human sacrifice in the name of economic growth

This year 2,295 breweries submitted 9,497 beers to be judged in the competition. Only 283 of those breweries walked away with medals, 37 of those for the first time.

macaroni & cheese on bar menus

It was a thing for a while elsewhere, especially lobster mac and cheese now we’re all about the katsu sando. Maybe the next global hipster food trend can be non-shit buffalo wings. How hard is it not to bread the wings, bake or fry them very hot and drown in Franks red hot.

When watching sports on television I am exposed to advertisements featuring "buffalo wings", as conceived by several different corporate franchises. Such ads try desperately to make them look appetizing, using every trick of lighting, slow motion, action shots of wings spilling in profusion or floating through the air to majestic music. You name it.

Gawd, those breaded, glossy, candy-colored monstrosities look disgusting.

they are hella tasty tho

macaroni & cheese on bar menus

American things

Omg the most am thing in my eurotrash opinion: cheese cans. The fuck

If it makes you feel any better, the section of my supermarket that sells genuine cheese is approximately 100 times larger than the square footage where canned 'cheese' is displayed for sale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFGH55fjBvI

different cheese sections for proles and bourgies, with the latter over by the salami: an american thing?

(i'm a tillamook man and they have the right idea working both sides of the street: motorcycle battery of cheddar over here, "we stuck some peppercorns into an ounce of also-cheddar and left out the food coloring, give us $9.50" over there)

sometimes mac and cheese is the only good thing on a bar menu.

Hives and hickeys.

do non-americans use the baseball base system to delineate sex acts?

1st wicket, 2nd wicket etc iirc

take the points and the goals will come iirc

Whip the bails off.

Cricket is much better for ridiculous double entendres.

Tell it to Meatloaf!

Really though is there a Brit equivalent to president progressive sexual “scoring” i.e. first base, second base etc.?

disregard “president” damn thumb

No, rounders isn't that popular.

You can actually bowl a maiden over in cricket!

yes that’s p good

people don't get hives outside the USA?

nah there are beekeepers all around the world

I meant skin hives — itchy welts caused by allergy or stress

the bee population is in global decline, i imagine beekeeping must be pretty stressful

bees live in "tower blocks" in the UK

I meant skin hives — itchy welts caused by allergy or stress

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i think in british english they just call that a rash?

Ha, that's right!

A rash is different than hives. Hives ime are like individual welts whereas a rash is more diffuse and has more points of irritation (many small bumps, for example). You can get them both from contact with an irritant or from mental stressors, but they are not the same thing. ime.

Maybe in BrE the technical term “urticaria” is in common parlance

(Australia has the skin version of hives too ftr. "Hickeys" started to take over from "love bites" in the '90s afaik, as with many other slang terms in Hollywood teen movies. no idea what #youths today call them)

We're lessy fussy about stuff like that over here. I'm sure there are regional names for hives, though I still don't really know what hives are... or is.

Lucky you who have never had a hive! They are utterly unrelated to hickeys aside from being skin welts visible to the naked eye.

I'm sure I have had a hive and I'm sure I just called it a rash!

The NHS apparently calls them hives but I've never heard anyone use that word irl.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/hives/

I suppose we should mention zits here as well.

plukes

Exactly.

so this is a list of colloquial names for skin problems?

i had a period of acute urticaria with some angioedema of the eyes and lips recently. lasted for about 4 weeks, responded to antihistamines, was (seemingly) idiopathic.

hive are not fun

(xp) American names for skin problems.

Why is the song "Please Mr. Postman" and not "Please Mr. Mailman"?

Good question.

https://i.imgur.com/0dqHJfl.jpg

why not "carn postie"