Things posted on the internet cannot be unposted. That’s part of the game. But there are surely things we have posted that we’re not necessarily very proud of. Some, however, have no clue about their clueless arguments and remain unapologetic.
And there’s this corner of Reddit known as “S***AmericansSay” which is notorious for busting these kinds of instances. In fact, the community of 353k members is sharing the most cringeworthy and clueless posts spotted surfing on social media. That includes but isn’t limited to blunt arguments, embarrassing comments, hilariously inaccurate shares, you name it.
Below we selected some of the most entertaining examples that will surely make you chuckle and wonder what those people are thinking. Psst! Here's part 1 of the post with more stuff Americans (and the rest of the world, for that matter, ‘cause no one is immune to cluelessness) say!
This post may include affiliate links.
On South Africa
Observing Of The Columbus Day
“If You Are White You Cant Speak Spanish”
The use of social media has increased throughout the world, including emerging and developing nations in recent years. And, across the 11 emerging economies surveyed for this Pew Research study, 28% of adults say social media is very important for helping them keep up with political news and other developments occurring in the world.
Simultaneously, the spread of misinformation has reached new heights. With the pandemic ransacking the globe, it has become vital to separate facts from fiction and stop the harm from false statements. Today, the question of what we hold as a true and trusted piece of information and not is key, but the boundaries between the two are becoming increasingly blurred. So what happened?
Rest Of The World Didn't Become Free Till We Reformed Half The World In Our Image
And it's self-perpetuating, because the under educated kids will be school board members soon.
This Is America
What an idiot! I’m from Canada and I’m happy I live here, because I wouldn’t want to live in America.
"Can Anybody Tell Me If Portugal Has Running Water Like In The States?"
According to Kevin Kelli, the co-founder of Wired magazine, “Truth is no longer dictated by authorities, but is networked by peers. For every fact there is a counterfact and all these counterfacts and facts look identical online, which is confusing to most people.” When you think of it, most online content is created, shared and altered by people online. Add the lack of attention to whether the information is accurate, and you have a toxic cocktail for reproducing countless inaccurate and false content.
Americans Would Never Do This
Hopefully This Hasn’t Been Shared Before
Medicine
Now take that to one of your hospitals and have an itemized bill made out, you now "POOR" bastard!
Meanwhile, this new study published in Nature that involves an experiment conducted by a group of researchers from MIT, the University of Regina in Canada, University of Exeter Business School in the United Kingdom and Center for Research and Teaching in Economics in Mexico, showed some interesting findings about the way people perceive what’s inaccurate online.
“It seems that the social media context may distract people from accuracy,” study coauthor Gordon Pennycook, an assistant professor of behavioral science at the University of Regina, told The Journalist’s Resource. According to him, although people are often capable of distinguishing between true and false news content, they fail to even consider whether content is accurate before they share it on social media.
“Your Little European Sport Where You Kick A Ball With Your Foot Is Called ‘Soccer’”
The imperial measurement system is insane and I feel bad for anyone who has to use it!
If Vaccines Are Free, Why Isn't Insulin And Chemo?
Will Europeans Be Suprised About My Mixed Heritage?
According to Pennycook, “The downstream effect of improving the quality of news sharing increases with the influence of the user who is making better choices.” He added: “It may be that the effect is as effective (if not more so) for users with more followers because the importance of ‘I better make sure this is true’ is literally greater for those with more followers.”
"I'm Norwegian (Not From There But Grandpa Is)
Only Because Americans Pay For The Healthcare Of Europe
Same vibe as the American guy who got mad at me (disabled) for living off "his" tax money... I'm in Sweden
On Dates
The Lack Of Freedom, Firearms And Muslim Immigrants
"Europe Is Ok Regarding Medicine, A Middle Income Life But Is Mostly Like A Third World Country"
"The USA Is The Only Country In The World With True Freedom" "What Do You Mean? We Are Also Free In France" "Really? "
Yeah, I still wonder what they think our countries are like. What freedom do we not have?
A Wisconsin School District Says Students Can “Become Spoiled” With Free Meals And Opts Out Of Biden’s Free-Lunch Program
Getting A Tattoo Of Your Ancestry.com Results
Would Be Cool If It Worked In 12 Hour
"99% Of The World Uses Metric System. The Othe 1% Went To The Moon. Lets Hear It For Freedom Units Eh"
Americans Don't Have An Accent
English
Rome
Yes, English Comes From America
That might not have helped them... I have seen on a number of occasions Britain described as being in England.
Europe Sucks
"US Has Jurisdiction Over All Of North America If It Comes Down To It"
“Greatest Country In The World” “You’re Welcome For All The Policing It Does”
“The Eiffel Tower Was Built In Vegas. The French Later Copied And Replicate The Original Eiffel Tower In Vegas”
Norwegian Flag Taken Down
Just to make it clear: The Norwegian flag on this picture is in Stavanger, Norway. Outside the optician in Kirkegata to be accurate ;)
Pronounced Like Rifle
Clocks
“Should American Schools Teach Arabic Numerals As Part Of Their Curriculum?” 57% Said ‘No'
Do Europeans Have A Spice Rack?
Real talk though, I've strong suspicion that the garlic that they use in the americas is some different variety than the one we use in Europe (Italy in particular). There is no way that you can use a whole head of garlic without making a dish inedible and pollute the whole street.
What Month Is 21?
There Should A Law Against This. This Is Socialism
Pot vs. Kettle
It's weird though. I've been to the US on vacation and every hotel and motel had an electric kettle in the room, so you could make your own tea in the morning. Guess this fear is pretty local to some areas.
"So May 16th Doesn't Exist?"
But People In Denmark Don't Get To Experience The Privilege Of Living In The Oldest And Greatest Country In The World (USA)
"As An American Journalist, You Never Expect Your Own Government To Lie To You"
I'm not sure where I stand on this one. On the one hand, the original post is right to be outraged that these things were done so blatantly and without oversight or consequences. But at the same time, it's astonishingly naive to believe it never happened before and won't happen again (just with oversight and consequence).
“Love When They Try To Take Credit For A System We Developed”
Europe Still Doesn't Have Running Water
English Please, Reddit Is An American Website (German Subreddit Btw)
"Rechtsschreibung" = law, "Rechtschreibung" = orthography...isn't German wonderful?
American English vs. British English *uses Australian Flag*
Did You Know Our Servers Survive On Your Tipping Kindness?
One Day You All Are Going To Look Back On The Day When America Was In Charge As The Good Old Days When You Were Prosperous Free And Happy
Don't You Miss Owning A Car?
"Democracy Is An Illusion"
I Hate When People Say Americans Dont Learn World History. Why Would We
The Brand Maybe Needs Changing From Prison Orange
Southern Hemisphere? "Yes I Live In Central Texas"
Americans On Native Americans
Building A House Is Hard In Metric
And the ones they do build don’t get blown away like the matchstick ones they build in the US
Protesting
"It's The Only Way To Stop Their Socialist Agenda"
"His Liberal Talking Point Response Was All I Needed To Hear"
Why Doesn't Germany Use The American Name
"Should The Spanish Language Remove The Word Negro From Its Language?"
Betcha if you asked this guy to spell orange he'd ask you if the color or the fruit!
Honestly, The US Should Stop Providing Aid And Defense To Europe. Let's See How Quickly Their Socialist Bullsh*t Falls Apart
“Americans Singlehandedly Brought Freedom, Democracy, Peace And Prosperity To Germany”
Please read a proper history book. Even just a couple of chapters might do it.
“Your Hellhole Country Exists Solely Because We Allow It”
Don’t Think Anyone In The Civil War Used A Match-Lock !
A Post Criticising People Who Claim The South Had A Noble Cause In The American Civil War, And Just Like Clockwork...
except the myth that civil war was about states rights was developed during the myth of the lost cause era. Ironically until right before the Civil War the south was trying to use the federal govt to force slavery in Territories that didn't want it (like Kansas) and force Northern States to enforce Southern Slave laws. Civil War was when the anti-slavery politicians won, the south panicked and rebelled, and later on the myth of states rights came around. States Rights originally was used by the Abolitionist movement as a way to avoid enforcing the fugitive slave laws.
Sas: Come To America Where Our Dialects Are So Different Some Count As Completely Different Languages
"No Nation Has Ever Done Anything Like It." About US Evacuating Afghanistan
Celsius
“We Can Drone Strike Anyone We Want”
On Flags
"Europe Is Becoming A Fascist Dictatorship By The Day" And A Rare Triple Combo
Five night in hospital. Two surgeries with all the trimmings. 20 doses of intravenous antibiotics and about a dozen of various other tablets each day. Bed and board included, including an extreme contamination regime for the first three days since I was a near contact to a confirmed Covid case (who staid in isolation at home with a "cold" since she's fully vaccainated). Total cost: NOK 0,00, which equals USD 0,00. I didn't need an ambulance, but that too would have been included in this grand total.
American Tan Lines
With all that oil instead of sunscreen, that patriot gonna slip and shoot her a$$ off.
“Not Too Many People Knew This Event Was Happening”
And with "not too many people knew" he just means himself. He didn't know it existed. We all did.
„military Time“
Will My Right To Bear Arms Be Honoured In England Or Germany?
"They Hate US Cause They Ain’t Us"
Wait, does France think The Netherlands is the biggest threat to world peace? Or Luxembourg (I can't make it out)
Who Need Sports When You Have Money?
“Our Founding Fathers Made The Right Decision To Stick To This Date Format When Europeans Changed Theirs”
Fed up with the date argument. Go from small to big or big to small but don't have the day in the middle just because of 'that's how we say it'. As if that was a good reason.
Scotland
"California, A Very Non American Place"
Centimeters
Commie Gonna Die Because They Won't Save $1k For Live Saving Care
£25 a month or so. They call them commie, without even knowing the definition of the word, With $1k savings here, I'll not only have free ride to hospital when needed, I won't get in lifelong debts if something is really bad with my health. pathetic logic
Sorry Europeans: You Kind Of Get Assigned Jobs, Can't Make Money Or Be Successful?
Yup. When we get born our name gets tossed in this big hat that assigns us our jobs. A Sorting Hat, so to speak. Then you get raised to do that job, only being taught knowledge and skills that pertain to that job. And if you don't like the job, too bad. You need to do it until you die.
"No One Says Today Is 14th Of March..."
"Celsius Is For Water. Fahrenheit Is For Humans. I Am A Human Not A Water." On A Meme About Americans Not Understanding Celsius
A human being is like 70% water so would that make him slightly a water?
"China Bombed Pearl Harbor"
You are stupid, Japan bombed Pearl Harbour. How can you go through life not knowing your own history?
If You Don’t Like It We’ll Just Nuke You
"Why Does China Have Almost No Culture Compared To The USA?"
Counting on fingers: ceramics, literature, art, cuisines, medicine, architecture ... versus ... hamburgers?
I Would Have Guessed One Of The Superbowls
Surprise, the world doesn't revolve around usa and there are more people elsewhere than just in usa, shocker
We Are The Only Country In The World...
“Here In The States We Have Tight Controls On Harmful Food Additives. I Feel Fortunate To Cal This Place Home”
“Universal Healthcare” I.e. You Can Only Get Very Basic Operations And Checkups Done By Subpar Doctors
Extreme Restrictions On Free Speech
Some of us are in European countries with Full Democracies and not like the US which is a Flawed Democracy. Look up the Democracy Index. Not all of course (sorry to those European countries which are also not Full Democracies).
"The Rest Of The World Put Together Isn't Half As Important As Us"
"In Europe They Don't Have Water Sometimes"
"Americans Don't Have Accents, Everyone Else Does"
Wars Make US Safer And Richer
''i'm A 4th Generation Italian(-American). I'm Pretty Damn Sure I Can Call Myself Italian''
American Reaction To A Job Posting With A Translation To Spanish
A Foreigner Is Blissfully Ignorant Of How Inferior Their Land Is
"Treated Like A Celebrity Overseas If You’re American"
“Name A Overall Better Country”
[in France] "Everything En France'. Nothing In English"
And this is written by someone who clearly has very poor English skills themselves. The irony.
"The Only Healthcare System With A Sliver Of Freedom..."
"So How Come Not In Korea??"
On The Metric System
"Can You Beat US In War?"
Here's a quiz for all the Americans who think like this: Name a war that the U.S fought and actually won all by itself. Here's a clue - it wasn't WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq (either time), Libya, or Afghanistan.
"Maga-Themed Wedding Pays Tribute To Trump"
“There’s No Excuse For Poverty In America”
And now that people are actually going and getting better jobs its like "wait what about my burger?"
Republicans
My Italian Side I Have No Patience And My Irish Side Is Wild And Likes To Party
Do these people really believe what they say? Because that would be very scary.
Medicare For All Is Medicare For None
Yes we can't have that. We need the American way. Everyone is miserable except for the 1% living in luxury.
Southern Borders
It's My First Time In This Sub Please Be Gentle
On Pages
“You Realize Without The US There Would Be No "Rest Of The World " So In Short We Invented Metric Also” - Comment On A Tiktok About The Metric System
"How Much Should Descendants Of 360,000 Union Soldiers Who Died To Freed Slaves, Be Paid By The Descendants Of The Slaves They Freed?"
The US Is Hated Because It's The Most Powerful And Influential Nation
The World (The USA)
Actually The Us Didn't Lose The Vietnam War
Of course. Quit at your peak. Pull out when you're about to win. Makes sense. To Americans, at least :D
"You Have To Bag Your Own Groceries Like A Slave"- I'm Sorry If This Was Posted Before But I Couldn't Find Anything Similar To My Post On This Subreddit
'Nickel and dime people' ?? I assume they mean charge people small sums for small items?? Never had to pay to use a loo in a restaurant, that tends to be public toilets and I know it's a strange concept but it pays for them to be cleaned and maintained and not to stop, (lol seriously???) gypsies from falling asleep in them! 😕😖 Can't comment on McDonalds as I don't eat in them or get takeaways. Not criticising, just that type of fast food is not my preference ever.
"Just Say 5pm Like A Normal Person"
2% Swedish
Since humans share 60% of our DNA with bananas, I like to keep up with my fellow fruits
Incredibly Unique. No Change In Language Or Even Accent
Well, there might be a change in accent, but the language will pretty much be the same, so they're not really wrong. Here in Europe you don't have to travel that far to reach another country with a completely different language.
Honoring Fallen Soldiers With An Empty Parking Spot
“We Americans Avoid Mexico For A Reason”
We Pay Our Military To Be The World Police ... Y’all Would Be Posting In German Otherwise
Enjoy Your “Football” England…
Enjoy your "freedom"...if France didn't save your ass you would be still a british colony :-)
Pretty Good Education Systems
I've been reading/showing some of the easier-to-understand quotes to the kids. Seven year old daughter just pointed out it should say "countries" and "pretty well". No, we're not American, why do you ask?
Fries
Chicago Puts Every Major European City To Shame
“1776 Gave US The Right To Call Soccer Soccer”
Admiration
But why? Why is it a strange concept for Americans to use a 24h clock?
Dont Like America? Feel Free To Leave And Remove Your Account
"The Difference Between Countries Of Europe And The States Of America Is That They Hate Each Other Slightly More"
I couldn't make it through all of these - it was too painful. Man, I really feel for the cool, intelligent Americans who have to share their country with these dopes.
I’m probably going to get downvoted for this but: The idiots are not the majority. I actually enjoy living in America.
Same here. The people that read these and say " are Americans ok?" are in fact dim witted, because the don't understand how these articles are created. If BP so decided, they could make hundreds of articles about how awesome the US is. What you're seeing here is called selective bias.
Load More Replies...oh come on BP, you'd almost beaten your 1-week streak of not posting any of these articles!
They have been doing less, I was surprised to see this article drop
Load More Replies...I couldn't make it through all of these - it was too painful. Man, I really feel for the cool, intelligent Americans who have to share their country with these dopes.
I’m probably going to get downvoted for this but: The idiots are not the majority. I actually enjoy living in America.
Same here. The people that read these and say " are Americans ok?" are in fact dim witted, because the don't understand how these articles are created. If BP so decided, they could make hundreds of articles about how awesome the US is. What you're seeing here is called selective bias.
Load More Replies...oh come on BP, you'd almost beaten your 1-week streak of not posting any of these articles!
They have been doing less, I was surprised to see this article drop
Load More Replies...