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.
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 19:51 (four years ago) link
Lucky you who have never had a hive! They are utterly unrelated to hickeys aside from being skin welts visible to the naked eye.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 19:53 (four years ago) link
I'm sure I have had a hive and I'm sure I just called it a rash!
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 19:54 (four years ago) link
The NHS apparently calls them hives but I've never heard anyone use that word irl.
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/hives/
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 19:55 (four years ago) link
I suppose we should mention zits here as well.
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 19:56 (four years ago) link
plukes
― insecurity bear (sic), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 19:58 (four years ago) link
Exactly.
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 19:58 (four years ago) link
so this is a list of colloquial names for skin problems?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 20:00 (four years ago) link
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
― #FBPIRA (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 20:00 (four years ago) link
(xp) American names for skin problems.
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 21:08 (four years ago) link
Why is the song "Please Mr. Postman" and not "Please Mr. Mailman"?
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Friday, 6 December 2019 20:05 (four years ago) link
Good question.
https://i.imgur.com/0dqHJfl.jpg
― pplains, Friday, 6 December 2019 20:46 (four years ago) link
why not "carn postie"
― insecurity bear (sic), Friday, 6 December 2019 21:19 (four years ago) link
having A/C on 24/7 but keeping the butter in the fridge 24/7 anyway
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 22 May 2020 16:10 (three years ago) link
People keep butter in the fridge? (Assuming you mean butter that is in the butter dish to be used soon, not backup butter)
― Je55e, Friday, 22 May 2020 16:17 (three years ago) link
oh yes!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 22 May 2020 16:17 (three years ago) link
I don’t know if people who do that. It would make the butter hard to spread.
― Je55e, Friday, 22 May 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
yes, yes it does!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 22 May 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
Wait, Je55e?!! Hello!
― silby, Friday, 22 May 2020 16:19 (three years ago) link
we keep butter in the fridge and I don't really know why. I personally never spread it on anything and only use it for cooking.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 22 May 2020 16:28 (three years ago) link
I’m dumb
― brimstead, Friday, 22 May 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link
Well if you aren’t going to spread it keep it in the fridge. Put butter to spread on things on the counter. The Tao of butter.
― silby, Friday, 22 May 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link
In the Prime Grateful Dead doc, their british tour manager comments that Americans are unusually obsessed with defining "what america is" and I thought that was a good observation, although not much to do with butter
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 22 May 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link
https://www.countrylanekitchens.net/images/products/thumb/butter_bell_antique_white_linen_2.jpg
I have one of these butter bells, a little bit of water in the bottom and it stays fresh and spreadable for weeks
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 22 May 2020 16:38 (three years ago) link
― Je55e, Friday, 22 May 2020 17:29 (three years ago) link
I store butter in the refrigerator, but the dish of butter-in-use stays out on the counter, except during the hotter months of summer. i'mamericanbtw.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 22 May 2020 19:31 (three years ago) link
Steve Miller Band, "Greatest Hits 1974-1978"
― Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 June 2020 14:13 (three years ago) link
somebody get me a cheeseburger
― Dan I., Thursday, 11 June 2020 16:29 (three years ago) link
Lacrosse
― S-, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 10:52 (three years ago) link
Might want to google that one
― rob, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 11:37 (three years ago) link
La crosse, Wisconsin, maybe.
― pplains, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 12:46 (three years ago) link
Is that different from (non-ice) Hockey? Seems massive here in Belgium.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 14:15 (three years ago) link
1. biscuits & gravy
... and I'm proud to be an American!
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 14:18 (three years ago) link
otm
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:03 (three years ago) link
Three Dog NightGrateful DeadCreedence Clearwater RevivalTom Petty & The HeartbreakersThe EaglesLynyrd SkynyrdBob Seger & the Silver Bullet BandKissBostonStevie Ray VaughanThe Doobie BrothersGrand Funk RailroadJohn FogertyJ Geils BandFoghatStyxCheap TrickREO SpeedwagonKansasGeorge Thorogood & the Destroyers
― Leighton Buzzword (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:36 (three years ago) link
there's an odd one out in that list (although it still works cos nobody likes them in their home country)
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:45 (three years ago) link
which
― Leighton Buzzword (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:51 (three years ago) link
Foghat are British
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:51 (three years ago) link
Foghat? Ohhh, they're British?
like, literally no one cares in the UK
― Leighton Buzzword (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:52 (three years ago) link
(and I'll be honest and say I got most of those names (incl. Foghat) from a list of 'Greatest American Bands')
― Leighton Buzzword (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:53 (three years ago) link
Lacrosse― S-, Wednesday, September 9, 2020 10:52 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglinkMight want to google that one― rob, Wednesday, September 9, 2020 11:37 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
― S-, Wednesday, September 9, 2020 10:52 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
― rob, Wednesday, September 9, 2020 11:37 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
What am I missing?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacrosse
Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America,
International lacrosseFurther information: List of national lacrosse organizations
Lacrosse has historically been played for the most part in Canada and the United States,
― Peter Greenaway's Fleetwood Mac (S-), Monday, 26 October 2020 04:43 (three years ago) link
It ain't no Ultimate Frisbee, brah.
― Pre-Raphaelite Brah (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 29 October 2020 10:10 (three years ago) link
Lacrosse was created long before "America" (or Canada and the United States) existed
― rob, Thursday, 29 October 2020 13:39 (three years ago) link
by Native Americans though...that's very much an American thing!
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 29 October 2020 13:57 (three years ago) link
The name is from French, reflecting that Europeans first observed and recorded it in French Canada, well before there was a US, as Rob notes.
If what you want to say is "lol preppy jock frat bros amirite," just say that
― Anaïs Ninja (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 October 2020 14:11 (three years ago) link
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, October 29, 2020 9:57 AM (nineteen minutes ago)
I am not Native American, but I have a hard time believing that they* would agree with this erasure of their cultural identity and political sovereignty.
* Obviously "they" are not a univocal monolith, but the Iroquois Nationals are called that for a reason.
If you want to make a thread cataloguing cultural practices created by the indigenous people of North America, I guess you could do that, but this is not that thread. For example, consider this post from upthread:
I mean, don't forget 23. Indigenous Genocide, but, you know.
― rob, Thursday, 29 October 2020 14:21 (three years ago) link
I guess the question comes down to what "America" is. Don't think it's unreasonable to describe it geographically, as a land mass.
(true though most of the posts itt have taken the title to mean "United States" things)
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 29 October 2020 14:35 (three years ago) link
In that case, is Rio de Janeiro an American thing?
― Anaïs Ninja (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 October 2020 14:40 (three years ago) link
In that case, again, I guess it depends on what you mean by "American."
My Uruguayan gf would probably answer yes, and bristles at the interchangeability of "U.S." and "America"
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 29 October 2020 14:42 (three years ago) link