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50 Funny Memes To Sum Up What It’s Like To Live In The USA
Picture this: a massive nation filled with endless opportunities and freedom of speech where anything you can dream of is achievable. It’s the best country in the world! As long as you make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, you aren’t a minority, you manage to avoid gun violence, and you never have to go to the hospital, you’re going to live a wonderful life there!
Global opinion on the United States might be split, but there’s one thing we can all agree on: we enjoy poking fun at the country. So whether you live in the land of liberty and bleed red, white and blue or you’re a curious spectator from another country, enjoy this list we’ve gathered of some of the best down-home ‘Merica memes on the internet from the American Memes Facebook page. Then if you’re interested in even more content about the good old USA, we’ve got the perfect Bored Panda piece for you to read next right here.
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Marek Yanchurak 4 years ago
The sad part (well, all the parts are sad, honestly) is that easy access to preventative care significantly saves money over all. But, yay for free market capitalism make our healthcare sooo efficient...
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Sheila Stamey 4 years ago
Well, not my generation. I'm one of the gen x evidently that were educated under the Jimmy Carter era in that brief and shining moment of clear thought where the metric system was actually taught alongside the imperial. I would have preferred to have had more time with it, but hey a year is something. At least I get this . Okay. This is comparable to Florida folks wearing coats in 60 degree Fahrenheit, versus my Maine neighbors who moved to SC and would wash their car in shorts anytime the weather was above 40 degrees fahrenheit.
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Lucas 4 years ago
Ah, I've been bitten by some evil wee beastie on my hand and had a nasty localised allergic reaction and not gone to the doctors. Saw a pharmacist who gave me some over the counter meds and that did the job. A lot of things don't require a doctor, if unsure a pharmacist can be a good place to check.
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Deborah Harris 4 years ago (edited)
We have the same in South Wales, UK , we have the bigger story ... it's just that the English Government forced us to stop talking in our own language to tell it
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Raven Sheridan 4 years ago
American elections are a vote between dumber and dumber, these days.
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Raccoon Queen 4 years ago
The thing with the imperial system, is that I in practice think it makes more sense because I grew up with it. In theory, metric all the way
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Thomas.Rudd 4 years ago
Uh, oh. You are in trouble. (Also, was it on purpose Switzerland is on the goofy one?)
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Sean Merchant 4 years ago
At least SpaceX is actually used by NASA. Unlike Jeff Bezos and his big penis rocket for super rich tourists.
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Raven Sheridan 4 years ago (edited)
Ha! That's nothing! I live in Western Australia. From our state capital, (Perth) it takes over 15 hours just to drive over the border to our neighbouring state of South Australia!
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Aran Lindvail 4 years ago
I have cups in half a dozen different sizes in my kitchen. They are a ridiculous unit.
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Nathaniel 4 years ago
The irony of the USA thinking they are "free" compared to the rest of the developed world.
Elizabeth VanDyke 4 years ago
The US likes to call itself "the greatest country in the world". With no free health care, no sensible gun laws (children are killed in schools by military rifles owned by anyone with the money to buy them) and the republican senate refuses to do anything about it because they get big bucks from the NRA and they want to keep that money flowing into their pockets. Because they lost the last presidential election, they are changing voting districts and laws to make voting difficult. Greatest country in the world?
Tina Harnish 4 years ago
These books aren't allowed. Dark skin colour, unwanted. Different religions, unwanted. Different types of schools, unwanted. But you Re free to carry that assault rifle...
Adrienne Kushner 4 years ago
Ben Franklin had it right when he wanted the wild turkey to be our national symbol.
Pjerrot 4 years ago
Yeah,U My Dear Eagle,is so VERY Free !! But I have never seen USA as a “ Free Country “,Never! They have so many Laws & Rules that are inhumane & inmorale. And They are racist in so many ways. Freedom of Speach has No True Sound Over There…. Cause’ U Can get to jail for it,get killed,loose everything in U’r Life for Saying The Free Speech that don’t fit the Right People….
Christopher Fauver 4 years ago
Awwww….but here we are providing almost ALL the support in money, sanctions,and military equipment to Ukraine. EU has more people and more money but it’s the good old USA that steps up AGAIN and saves Europe from totalitarianism, FFS.
Onion rings like to make your breath smelly 4 years ago
fun fact: in movies, bald eagles are depicted as having those loud caws, but in reality they only produce a squeaking noise, nothing compared to in the movies. Movies actually use the caw from the red-tailed hawk for eagles.
Hrefna Frederiksen 4 years ago
Funny that they also insist that the bald eagle screeches. Usually, that is a falcon screech they overlay with in movies because eagles sound like they are turkeys with a throat disease.
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SelkieBlackfysh 4 years ago
Pff, not exactly true. They'll want you to fill out a paper so they can charge the hurt person thousands of dollars. If you're hurt they'll want you to fill it out too. Broke both arms and they wanted me to fill out paperwork before they'd help me out it was a joke.
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Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
Some of the last vestiges of the worst of colonialism has to do with oil. We really need to divest ourselves of those incredibly racist attitudes. We also need to divest ourselves of our dependence on oil. OIL. IS. A. FINITE. RESOURCE!!! Only so many forests and dinosaurs died to create it and we’re now obviously scraping the bottom of the barrel for it—-pun intended—-because we have to drill deeper and more expensively to find it, and pump an increasingly dirty and low dried crude that costs an arm and a leg to clean and refine—-ending up with a mere fraction that’s usable afterward. Not to mention the issues of transporting it from the oil fields to the refineries—-train wreck = environmental disaster for the place it wrecks + biohazard for that place’s residents. And don’t get me started on oil companies wanting to foul the few pristine wildernesses still in existence, for no other reason than they think there’s oil there and want to do some filthy and permanently destructive drilling just have a look-see and maaaaybeee find a drop or two of oil. Switching to alternative sources will loosen Big Oil’s stranglehold on us, and finally level the energy playing field.
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Rob Chapman 4 years ago (edited)
TBH, the U.S. uses the metric system every day. All medication (except oral liquid) is measured in milligrams, all alcohol (except beer/malt liquor, and some wine) is sold in milliliters (or liters if you really like your Jack Daniels), even soda is sold in both ounces and liters. And, virtually all other consumables products (from milk, to bread, to paper towels) now show both imperial and metric quantities.
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Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
I wish they would stop unfairly stereotyping people. You want REAL gangsters? Just look to a certain political party’s elected reps. Just look at a past, very orange, president (who doesn’t deserve the capital P), his family, and his minions. Just look at billionaire CEOs with d**k rockets and children with weird names, just look at pharmaceutical companies (aka high power drug dealers), just look at insurance companies, just look at artificially created inflation, just look at company memos where the “suits” talk about ways to lower pay, instead of finding creative ways to raise true profits (not false ones). Lowering overhead is not making a profit, it’s only budgeting—-making a true profit is selling a fuckton of product and clearing a fuckton of cash after covering overhead and other expenses. Lowering overhead, a false profit, has been touted as profit for too long, and should be removed from the current false definition.
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Ellen Ranks 4 years ago
Average Russians do not read foreign news, they just get the state propaganda.
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Call my whatever. 4 years ago
Yes you might be right but it's true I live in the US and I agree to all of this
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Helmut Kok 4 years ago (edited)
that thing where the trow a ball at a man with a wodden stick and it's not Cricket?
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Trond Øien 4 years ago
If capitalism wasn't a thing and somebody came up with the unregulated brute force capitalism we have today, they'd be put in a straight jacket and locked away for good.
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Marek Yanchurak 4 years ago
At least two, if not all three predate England. The mile goes back at least to the ancient Romans, and the foot, I think at least to the ancient Greeks.
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Thomas.Rudd 4 years ago
Spiders are tall i guess. What else has a lot of feet. Wait a second. Centipedes!?!?!?!?
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indiecognition 4 years ago
Americans don't pay attention to trains. And the rail travel infrastructure is proof of that.
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Chewie Baron 4 years ago
Come to the UK, it’s around £9 average for a gallon here. I’ll let you convert that to dollars.
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JayCee 4 years ago
Yes. The difficulty is that the other option is to invade and start WWIII, and the US would then be called imperialist and told to stay out of world affairs. There is no easy solution here. Get involved and interfere with other countries? Or let a mad man slaughter innocent people? It puts Germany's invasion of Poland into perspective. Because everyone thinks he invaded that first, and no one remembers Czechoslovakia when he took that over and no one did a damn thing about it.
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Deborah Harris 4 years ago
Shame about all that bird s**t on Meghans' shoulder said no one ever :D
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Nimues Child 4 years ago
Are we talking basketball, baseball or American football? Two are common elsewhere, now.
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Zedrapazia 4 years ago
Every time I want to buy something from the US I first have to Google with a calculator how big it actually is.
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Allison B 4 years ago
Agreed. I mean yes there's some dumb Americans. But there's dumb people all over the world. I love BP but this whole bashing on America is getting repetitive and honestly irritating.
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Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
It's disturbing that BP considers itself and its community to be a bastion of open-mindedness and empathy...until it comes to the US. Honestly, the level of willful ignorance, bigotry, and self-righteousness in this thread is staggering. Does it make you feel better to have a punching bag? Grow up. Putting others down does NOT elevate you; it lowers you. If you have no verifiable facts on which to base your opinion, you shouldn't have one.
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 4 years ago
I feel that Bored Panda is mimicking Buzzfeed. Buzzfeed is renown for it's rather negative listicle articles and has a number of listicle articles bashing other countries. I think that users are starting to see a surge in celebrity listicle articles and really negative "Am I the Arsehole" articles which I have never seen on this site before.
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Jennifer Hawkins 4 years ago
I understand the US is not perfect by any means, but why is it OK to bash this country? If US Bored Panda contributors put together a post for any other country that was as Anti- as this one, it'd be alllllllll over the news. When did Bored Panda get so mean and negative?
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 4 years ago
I am worried that Bored Panda is starting to go the way of Buzzfeed. I've noticed a lot more "Am I the Arsehole" article and celebrity focused articles on this website. Furthermore, there is a lot of repurposed content from Reddit. I really miss some of their older articles and listicles that were focused on art.
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Random Panda 4 years ago
Honestly, I like making fun of the US, but even I'm getting bored by all the repeated articles with the same jokes.
Ryan Healy 4 years ago
Who put this one together? It's all over the place. How about fewer but they actually go together?
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 4 years ago
BoredPanda and Buzzfeed repurpose content from Reddit threads. So, there really isn't much "writing" and little to no editing required to churn out these listicles.
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Draga Millani 4 years ago
The "you don't have healthcare" joke is getting old. It's not funny when you actually live in America. Get off of your high horse and have some empathy.
Melia Janssen 4 years ago
Actually, there's a new edit on the meme about the football coaches which I thought was a lot funnier. https://preview.redd.it/7m4pudz9ioe41.jpg?auto=webp&s=beb06eae994155565f31ea3ba25948cc555666e1
Jordan Westall 4 years ago
The same two slams through out the whole thing. Annoying a*s bitches
Andy Frobig 4 years ago
The comments about soda bottles being the only thing we still have from the metric system make me sad, because it means nobody works on their own machinery anymore.
Mistiekim 4 years ago
Oh it’s silly fun - why’d you read it if you know you wouldn’t like it? And most of those aren’t really making fun, more like showing our differences And this isn’t all over the news, so why would mocking another country cause an uproar?
Tamra 4 years ago (edited)
It's not silly fun if it's your country (and the people in it) who are getting bashed on a regular basis. An example: recently BP did a listicle bashing Germany for their perceived lack of response to Ukraine for aid. There were quite a few unhappy Germans in those comments. That said, I keep coming back to BP because there are still a few interesting or funny articles, and I've met some lovely, funny, and intelligent folks here.
Load More Replies... Allison B 4 years ago
Agreed. I mean yes there's some dumb Americans. But there's dumb people all over the world. I love BP but this whole bashing on America is getting repetitive and honestly irritating.
Load More Replies... Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
It's disturbing that BP considers itself and its community to be a bastion of open-mindedness and empathy...until it comes to the US. Honestly, the level of willful ignorance, bigotry, and self-righteousness in this thread is staggering. Does it make you feel better to have a punching bag? Grow up. Putting others down does NOT elevate you; it lowers you. If you have no verifiable facts on which to base your opinion, you shouldn't have one.
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 4 years ago
I feel that Bored Panda is mimicking Buzzfeed. Buzzfeed is renown for it's rather negative listicle articles and has a number of listicle articles bashing other countries. I think that users are starting to see a surge in celebrity listicle articles and really negative "Am I the Arsehole" articles which I have never seen on this site before.
Load More Replies... Jennifer Hawkins 4 years ago
I understand the US is not perfect by any means, but why is it OK to bash this country? If US Bored Panda contributors put together a post for any other country that was as Anti- as this one, it'd be alllllllll over the news. When did Bored Panda get so mean and negative?
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 4 years ago
I am worried that Bored Panda is starting to go the way of Buzzfeed. I've noticed a lot more "Am I the Arsehole" article and celebrity focused articles on this website. Furthermore, there is a lot of repurposed content from Reddit. I really miss some of their older articles and listicles that were focused on art.
Load More Replies... Random Panda 4 years ago
Honestly, I like making fun of the US, but even I'm getting bored by all the repeated articles with the same jokes.
Ryan Healy 4 years ago
Who put this one together? It's all over the place. How about fewer but they actually go together?
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 4 years ago
BoredPanda and Buzzfeed repurpose content from Reddit threads. So, there really isn't much "writing" and little to no editing required to churn out these listicles.
Load More Replies... Draga Millani 4 years ago
The "you don't have healthcare" joke is getting old. It's not funny when you actually live in America. Get off of your high horse and have some empathy.
Melia Janssen 4 years ago
Actually, there's a new edit on the meme about the football coaches which I thought was a lot funnier. https://preview.redd.it/7m4pudz9ioe41.jpg?auto=webp&s=beb06eae994155565f31ea3ba25948cc555666e1
Jordan Westall 4 years ago
The same two slams through out the whole thing. Annoying a*s bitches
Andy Frobig 4 years ago
The comments about soda bottles being the only thing we still have from the metric system make me sad, because it means nobody works on their own machinery anymore.
Mistiekim 4 years ago
Oh it’s silly fun - why’d you read it if you know you wouldn’t like it? And most of those aren’t really making fun, more like showing our differences And this isn’t all over the news, so why would mocking another country cause an uproar?
Tamra 4 years ago (edited)
It's not silly fun if it's your country (and the people in it) who are getting bashed on a regular basis. An example: recently BP did a listicle bashing Germany for their perceived lack of response to Ukraine for aid. There were quite a few unhappy Germans in those comments. That said, I keep coming back to BP because there are still a few interesting or funny articles, and I've met some lovely, funny, and intelligent folks here.
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