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The United States—the land of the free. The home of the brave. And the nation of some very peculiar habits, according to the internet. Other countries in the world are confused by some of the things that Americans do. Like calling tuna “tuna fish” and putting too much cheese on everything. I find it endearing, others find it strange.
Bored Panda has collected some of the best tweets that show how confused foreigners are at what some Americans do. Scroll down and upvote your faves. And be sure to check out our previous post about Europeans who shared what problems are too American for them to grasp.
Culture clashes are nothing new. After all, if every country and culture were the same, there’d be no point in leaving your home, right? (Spoiler warning: due to the coronavirus pandemic, you shouldn’t be leaving your home either way.) Benny Lewis, founder of the Fluent in 3 Months blog, spent 4 years living in the US and has some gripes about the culture. Including how Americans are too politically correct while at the same time they think that everything is “awesome.”
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European other 5 years ago
It makes sense to start with the day, but I guess it's what you get used to
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Prince Maroochy 5 years ago
We choose from a lot more at first, eventually narrowing it down to two and choosing from them.
According to Benny from Ireland, Europeans traveling around the US will find a lot of things weird. Like the fact that Americans smile way too much and it’s difficult to know when they mean it and when they’re smiling out of reflex.
Another thing that Benny found very unusual is something a lot of people complain about when they arrive in the US. Yup, you guessed it—tipping! “I really think tipping as a means of waitresses and others earning the vast majority of their living is ridiculous. If I have to pay, say 15% anyway, then include it in the bill! It's not a bloody tip if it's mandatory!” Benny expressed his opinion. Some of us can agree that mandatory tipping is sneaky and that servers should earn a decent wage that isn’t based on tips.
“Why not tip everyone who you interact with in some way—bus drivers, or leave money on your trash can for the garbage man? It's inconsistent, and waiters, hairdressers, and taxi drivers should just charge us what needs to be charged,” Benny writes in his blog.
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Thomas brennan 5 years ago
As an irish person I dont mind it, it is nice for people to be proud of their heritage. What I do mind is when they ask do I know paddy mcsomething from donegal. I know Ireland's small but we don't all live in one village. Oh and the accent impersonations are damn annoying...although in my experience the English are the worst for imitating accents.
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Alan Green 5 years ago
The other day when they announced America now has the highest C19 infections of any country an american in the comments said "BS, I'm sure Europe has more". Seems some Americans think Europe is a country.
He also has issues with how in some parts of America prices aren’t what they seem because the tax isn’t included to make the cost seem lower than it really is.
Of course, taxing is different in different states, but this doesn’t excuse corporations from printing up different product costs for each state. Or, as Benny puts it, “We have the same product sold across many European countries and somehow someone in the company found the time to punch numbers into a $1 calculator in advance to tell people how much they are actually paying.”
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Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
Why was fahrenheit even invented? The metric system just makes so much more sense. Freezing point is 0C and boiling point is 100C. A litre is 1000millilitres, 100 centimetres is 1 metre etc.
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Petra Schaap 5 years ago
thats not just American. I think it depends on the person. I have local friends who do and local friends who dont, and American friends who do and dont.
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Just Carmen 5 years ago
I don't know about other Americans, but at our house, we just call it TUNA.
But before you start thinking that all Europeans have it out for the US, Benny also mentions some awesome things about Americans. For example, nobody can deny that Americans have an incredible work ethic and how open-minded and diverse most of the country is. It’s a country with plenty of positives, peppered with a whole lot of bizarreness.
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Colin Bayler 5 years ago
Because you don't need a bloody scale to measure grams. All you need is a simple cup with lines. DUH!
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Just Carmen 5 years ago
Well actually, most of the time we say that we don't give a s**t, so.....
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Carol Lewis 5 years ago
I don't think that, nor have I ever thought that. I don't know anyone who does. Where did you even come up with that nonsense.
Troux 5 years ago
She's referring to the Republican/pro-capitalist voters that are opposed to government support for the poor, high taxes for the rich, and anything else which might level the playing field. To sum it up, ~50% of the US votes like they're going to win the lottery tomorrow.
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Mary Launer 5 years ago
No, we think if you work hard enough you will be successful. Never heard anyone thinking they will be billionaires.
Jim Kang 5 years ago
Again, who do these people talk to? No one, and I mean no one thinks like this. Pull your head out your a*s, and quit watching bad tv/movies. Americans are the same as you, we all have the same desires and needs as you. Our culture maybe a little different, but we are the same as you! I need food, shelter, clothing, some simple social interactions, maybe some entertainment, I'm good. Just like you. Quit trying to make us so different from each other, we're not.
Johnny Farnen 5 years ago (edited)
Someone has seen far too many movies. The reality is most Americans can't even grasp the concept of a billion properly thanks to a badly outdated education system and good old fashioned Ameroggance.
Sasha Ross 5 years ago (edited)
Really, I just want a small house with a nice yard, enough food and not have to constantly worry about if I can afford my health care payments(which cost more then my rent. .
Fireflower 5 years ago
It's called the American Dream; our constitution grants us three unalienable rights, which are the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. If I remember my US history courses from 8th grade correctly, it first appeared in the Declaration of Independance (I like to think of it this way: "Britain, I'm breaking up with you. It's not me, it's you, and here are 23 reasons why:"). They don't guarantee happiness, but they do the right to strive for it. And honestly, this go-getter mindset is much better than the stagnant one. Since when has the latter become the norm? And why have people allowed it to be that way? I don't understand.
deanna woods 5 years ago
I don't think like that. I just think that if I work hard, I will have what I need. Which, by the way, I do.
Darling McKee 5 years ago
That’s not the saying. It’s if you work hard you can make opportunities for yourself. The key is teaching to work hard. Did you even go to school?
Kori K. Warriner 5 years ago
Who the f**k have you been talking to? Not the general public, it's clear.
Dave P 5 years ago
well 20% of those in the top 1% change every 10 years, with a full 5% moving down to the lowest quintile. We have the highest volatility for wealth in the world with the highest rates moving in and out. We see it actually happening. In Europe and most countries, they have way lower mobility and much lower rates of people moving to different brackets.
Ryan Rickels 5 years ago
It's the bootstrap mentality that's ingrained into us from an early age.
Helen Haley 5 years ago
At least two generations of brainwashing by people who use the phrase 'pull yourself up by the bootstraps'. Even though that phrase was originally used to denote the impossibility of something.
Catalina Chavez 5 years ago
Well, honestly , I don’t take offense to these comments but I wish you could see all the hard working people who come from other counties to start a life here & actually end up doing well. We don’t want billions, we just want enough to keep our families safe & happy.. well I can speak for the humbles Americans. On the other hand ....
deanna woods 5 years ago
I am from the south and I don't think like that.
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Monica Michelle 5 years ago
It is a country of temporarily embarrassed millionaires...a very bad require from Fitzgerald
Colin L 5 years ago
"Trickle down economics" is the lie that Americans believe. We're Charlie Brown believing that this time we can kick the football and the billionaires won't just take it away like every other time.
Dave P 5 years ago
You do know the origins of the term "Trickle Down" was Keynes referring to how his theories worked. Free Market economists have never used that terms to self describe theirs. It was actually journalists who didnt know economics who mixed it up and now many people still misuse the term "Trickle Down" to mean something it never did and incorrectly
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Eli Roberts 4 years ago
Sadly a huge portion of my countrymen, not all mind you, but a large portion say 68-losely higher end 90's percent, are ignorant, arrogant, stupid backwards ass fuckups. Who create problems that otherwise would not have been there.
Breez Brown 5 years ago
HAHAHAHAHA Valentina I sure hope you dont believe this. If you do please go check yourself back into Elementary School seems you are lacking in the brain dept!
Blackheart 5 years ago
Many of us have been taught a work ethic It is not that we think we will ever get rich. I am a teacher, so it's not going to happen.
Jolee Hang 5 years ago (edited)
You CAN be one if you work hard enough. Doesn't mean you will. The message is, you don't know what potential you have until you've reached it, and then there might be more. Also, if everyone was a billionaire, than a billion dollars would be normal, and a trillion would be the ultimate goal.
Harley Hans Hoglin 5 years ago
We all don't believe that, or the lie they told us in grade school, that any one can be president. Only rich people can be president, and unless you come up with something people really want, or you are super good at a job, you are never going to be rich. You will be lucking to be on the high end of working poor, what modern middle class really is.
Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 5 years ago
Yeah, this one is only 48%-ish of Americans. The conservatives who have been brainwashed by their religion and their representatives.
Logan Colee 5 years ago
My grandpa sold medicine and fishing poles all his life, I don’t think he was well off in the beginning, but now he owns tons of land, a two story house with a huge pool , and is enjoying life in oregon
Rage Racer 5 years ago
I don't know about billionaires but I have seen and read about too many people that grew up poor with siblings and educated themselves and pushed themselves out of their comfort zone to grow enough wealth to ensure this and the next generation of their family live in comfort. Their siblings could have don't the same but had no drive or set there sights to low. It happens every day in American and around the world. The goal is to love better than the last generation some people do it faster than others. While some have a narrowminded mentality and are stuck in a loop of blaming other for not giving them handouts.
Lynda Momalo 5 years ago
Agreed, too many Americans swallow that "self-made millionaire/billionare" American Dream c**p. In comparison to more rigid societies, the US DID represent a potentially more fluid class system where only cash mattered, not your pedigree. But it's highly unlikely to actually be the one who breaks into the 1%.
Dave P 5 years ago
15% of Americans will be in the 1% for at least 1 year of their lives, every 10 years a full 20% of the 1% leave it, every 10 years a full 20% of the bottom quartile rise up out of it and others falls down into their place. And every 40 years 70% of those in the 1% will have changed, by 60 years less than 10% of the 1% are the same families
Load More Replies... Florence Kirsch 5 years ago
Gullible. Too many well meaning parents and teachers saying “you can be anything you want”. Too much buy in to the idea that “all men are created equal” . Failure, too, to grasp the disparity among personality types. Little did the Founding Fathers know that there were such things as psychopaths would one day comprise corporate leadership.
Aria Whitaker 5 years ago
WE HAVE AN ENTIRE POLITICAL PARTY, THAT CONSISTS OF ABOUT HALF OF OUR COUNTRY, THAT ABSOLUTELY DO NOT THINK THIS WAY!! TRY LEARNING ABOUT AMERICANS BEFORE YELLING OUT DUMB COMMENTS LIKE THIS, VALENTINA!
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Mette Olsen Douglas 5 years ago
I don't think I know anybody who lives like they have free healthcare - quite the opposite actually. "Is it truly bad enough to go see a doctor or can we survive without going"? Nobody want those bills that follows a doctors visit!!
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Winston Smith 5 years ago
I hear it said at least 3 different ways depending on what news channel you watch
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Chewie Baron 5 years ago
Don't get me started on how Americans pronounce 'mirror'. They miss out the 'o' and say "mirrrrr". Madness!
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Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago (edited)
High school was pretty much the worst time in my life. My daughter is going through it now and I wish I could just fast forward her outta there.
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Marcellus the Third 5 years ago
Yeah but then you also have 'drinks halls' in germany with liquor, beer, water, soda... Why? Also you're ignoring the "dry county" thing where within one state many counties may sell absolutely zero alcohol and the next does.
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Just Carmen 5 years ago
It's the MOVIES for F sake! Get a clue would you?! We don't DO that IRL.
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Leah Rays 5 years ago
These are kinda stupid. It's an unnecessary generalization. Not everyone does. Some do, not all. Lots of Americans would love to have the metric system. We just don't and can't change it.
Fact Perils 5 years ago
I know! It wouldn't even be that hard, they teach it in schools already. And the pain that it was to learn to convert centimeters to inches...*shivers* like seriously, 1 inch = 2.54 cm WTH?
Load More Replies... Petra Schaap 5 years ago
OMG. The questions get more and more stupid the more you scroll down. And the first one is already pretty stupid.
ToGo 5 years ago
This article would be okay if people were asking questions they genuinely want answered, but they're taking the p**s. Also, it's just ignorant to assume all Americans do these things. I'd be pissed if they made an article asking Americans to do this to Brits. Just not my sense of humour I guess.
oddball0626 5 years ago
Let's keep bashing Americans because it makes us feel better about ourselves.
steven 5 years ago
why do americans continually complain about their pathetic healthcare but vote in people who promise to fix it but never do
deanna woods 5 years ago (edited)
This article was so annoying. As an American, I have never done half of these things. I have a sense of humor and can laugh at my own expense, but these are stupid things that not even I have ever even heard of. I understand that our president is a joke to the rest of the world, but please stop lumping all Americans into the category of idiots who do everything wrong just because you don't agree with it. Every country in the world does things differently than the next because each country is unique. Let's focus on that and not the silly things that are different.
Shelp 5 years ago
Why are toilet doors in American public toilets smaller than the average car door?
Paul K. Johnson 5 years ago
Well, now I know who's been s******g in my car. Thanks a lot, Shelp.
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Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
Because the h is silent. When the h isn't silent then it's a guys name.
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Rae Black 5 years ago (edited)
Why does BP continue to put up posts like this? America is very diverse, with so many different types of people. Why do they post these which lump us all together in stereotypes? This is not intelligent work, or helpful. Some of these questions are based solely on what they see on TV or in movies ffs. Americans would be blasted if we so crassly stereotyped another culture. It doesn't seem that a lot people posting questions like these understand that the US is made up of states that have their own laws, etc. Or that this country is a collection of peoples, not just one heritage or culture.
Eli 5 years ago
White South African here (yes, the colour needs to be mentioned.) Two things I experienced in the States that I would love an explenation for: (I am not hating, nor am I being mean. I loved the country and the people I interactrd with.) 1. Why does everyone want to know why I'm not black? 4 out of 5 people I met would ask the question. Got a bit annoying after about the 20th time. 2. Why do Southerners say y'all? You is collective. That is an unneeded repetition. Where did that come from?
Aria Whitaker 5 years ago (edited)
The question about "why are you white" was used in a popular American movie, "Mean Girls". It is a popular pop culture joke to say that to White south Africans...it was a gag line that became a meme. They probably don't ACUTALLY think you have to be black to be from Africa...it may just be a cultural joke meme that you aren't as aware of....
Load More Replies... Anony Mouse 5 years ago
Buzzfeed posts the same comments in a different order about once a week. It's old.
Sinkvenice 5 years ago
Why do Americans say, "I did it on accident?" It's 'by accident' dammit!
Megan Curl 5 years ago
Only ignorant, uneducated Americans say that, and it drives me batty too.
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Caroline Driver 5 years ago
“Why not tip everyone who you interact with in some way—bus drivers, or leave money on your trash can for the garbage man? It's inconsistent, and waiters, hairdressers, and taxi drivers should just charge us what needs to be charged,” Benny writes in his blog. Completely agree. Bizarre, skewed, c**k eyed, unfair, cruel.
Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
Bored Panda owes me the five minutes it took to read this nonsense.
Lynda Momalo 5 years ago
As for calling these things "stupid questions" -- I'm sure we all have mistaken impressions and ideas that we've picked up over the years about other countries that they'd think were silly.
John Baker 5 years ago
A mistaken impression is one thing. A troll question is quite another.
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Kristin Scarbrough 5 years ago
In the States it's actually spelled 'aluminum' and pronounced that way. According to quora.com "According to the Online Etymology Dictionary English chemist Sir Humphry Davy named the element alumium in 1808 and then changed it to aluminum in 1812. British editors changed it to aluminium to be more in keeping with other elements such as potassium and sodium, while the Americans retained the spelling as aluminum." So a British scientist called it aluminum, but then others wanted it to sound more 'sciencey' but we didn't cooperate, as usual LOL.
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John Baker 5 years ago
This proves only that foreign trolls are just as stupid as American trolls.
Lynda Momalo 5 years ago
For American and non-Americans alike, I think the book that explains best exactly how different and diverse the US is is https://www.amazon.com/American-Nations-History-Regional-Cultures/dp/0143122029 -- or if the link doesn't work, just look up American Nations by Colin Woodard. It truly explains why we'll never really be UNITED states -- we're really 11 separate nations (some partially in other countries) joined together. We think, talk, act, and look at the world in very, very different ways depending on where we grew up because of when and by whom each area was first settled.
Bláthnaid O’Loughlin 5 years ago
Can we make it so that people can add questions? I’ve one I’d like to ask.
Kristie Yuill 5 years ago
I scrolled down here to find all the comments by bitter Americans who constantly make jokes about other countries but can't take it in return. I was not disappointed.
Nirity 5 years ago
Why do muricans believe having healthcare, paid maternity, paid vacation, paid sick days, pensions for elderly, education will drain their economy to bancrupsy and can not work. It works in all other countries in the world, not only the developed ones, but actually all others. Meanwhile they spend billions for military and they just gave the most rich people in the world trilions of dollars. To save them from... what. I dont even know how many zeros a trilion has. Meanwhile the people got some spare change to survive longer in pandemic. Btw if those people die, rich wont have profit - because if the people who do all the real work while paying all the taxes, bills and goods, if those people die who will create the profit. This is insane. And they believe they are the greatest nation. Just WOW.
Marcos Pereira 5 years ago
No worries Nirity, you country is way better in every sense! *sarcasm*........smh
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John Baker 3 years ago
Probably because your s**t isn't funny and we're damned sick and tired of it.
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Karin Jansen 5 years ago
Not necessarily, but it is a big fixation on the US I don't get. Probably because it's such a unique country compared to the rest of the west. I wouldn't have any interesting questions about Norway or Canada for example.
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Caoimhe_Snowleopard 5 years ago
Probably because it's spelled aluminium in the UK and Ireland
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sh 5 years ago
Are there posts non-stop about your country's stereotypes, creating a situation where you constantly have to defend yourself, OR clarify that the stereotypes are completely incorrect? There's a point when it switches from laughing with you to laughing at you, and that gets tiring.
Load More Replies... Mini Shnauzer 5 years ago
Ok, we get it, Americans do weird things. But so do all other countries? I mean, British people call steak fries "crisps"? They're soft? Chips - potato chips - are crispy, and I can see if you'd call steak fries "chips", because they're chips of potato? But "crisps"? They're soft?
Liam Walsh 5 years ago
No, sorry that's not true. We do not call 'steak fries' crisps in the UK. They are chips. Hot, fried chips made from chips of potato and soft (though if cooked properly slightly crunchy on the outside). Crisps in the UK are what Americans call potato chips and ARE crisp - the thin, crispy, crunchy, slices of potatoes sold in bags and eaten cold. I don't care what they are called personally but didn't want you to have the wrong idea. I am very anti the US bashing thing so not joining in on that.
Load More Replies... Logan Colee 5 years ago
So a lot of people have been getting this wrong just wanted to clarify. The United States of America, its the CUSTOMARY system. OK?
John Baker 5 years ago
I only use checks to pay my rent, because that's what my landlord wants. I use my bank card for everything else.
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Ariel Fox 5 years ago
Yes - and what the heck is a "stone", meaning some measurement of weight??
Load More Replies... Leah Rays 5 years ago
These are kinda stupid. It's an unnecessary generalization. Not everyone does. Some do, not all. Lots of Americans would love to have the metric system. We just don't and can't change it.
Fact Perils 5 years ago
I know! It wouldn't even be that hard, they teach it in schools already. And the pain that it was to learn to convert centimeters to inches...*shivers* like seriously, 1 inch = 2.54 cm WTH?
Load More Replies... Petra Schaap 5 years ago
OMG. The questions get more and more stupid the more you scroll down. And the first one is already pretty stupid.
ToGo 5 years ago
This article would be okay if people were asking questions they genuinely want answered, but they're taking the p**s. Also, it's just ignorant to assume all Americans do these things. I'd be pissed if they made an article asking Americans to do this to Brits. Just not my sense of humour I guess.
oddball0626 5 years ago
Let's keep bashing Americans because it makes us feel better about ourselves.
steven 5 years ago
why do americans continually complain about their pathetic healthcare but vote in people who promise to fix it but never do
deanna woods 5 years ago (edited)
This article was so annoying. As an American, I have never done half of these things. I have a sense of humor and can laugh at my own expense, but these are stupid things that not even I have ever even heard of. I understand that our president is a joke to the rest of the world, but please stop lumping all Americans into the category of idiots who do everything wrong just because you don't agree with it. Every country in the world does things differently than the next because each country is unique. Let's focus on that and not the silly things that are different.
Shelp 5 years ago
Why are toilet doors in American public toilets smaller than the average car door?
Paul K. Johnson 5 years ago
Well, now I know who's been s******g in my car. Thanks a lot, Shelp.
Load More Replies... Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
Because the h is silent. When the h isn't silent then it's a guys name.
Load More Replies... Rae Black 5 years ago (edited)
Why does BP continue to put up posts like this? America is very diverse, with so many different types of people. Why do they post these which lump us all together in stereotypes? This is not intelligent work, or helpful. Some of these questions are based solely on what they see on TV or in movies ffs. Americans would be blasted if we so crassly stereotyped another culture. It doesn't seem that a lot people posting questions like these understand that the US is made up of states that have their own laws, etc. Or that this country is a collection of peoples, not just one heritage or culture.
Eli 5 years ago
White South African here (yes, the colour needs to be mentioned.) Two things I experienced in the States that I would love an explenation for: (I am not hating, nor am I being mean. I loved the country and the people I interactrd with.) 1. Why does everyone want to know why I'm not black? 4 out of 5 people I met would ask the question. Got a bit annoying after about the 20th time. 2. Why do Southerners say y'all? You is collective. That is an unneeded repetition. Where did that come from?
Aria Whitaker 5 years ago (edited)
The question about "why are you white" was used in a popular American movie, "Mean Girls". It is a popular pop culture joke to say that to White south Africans...it was a gag line that became a meme. They probably don't ACUTALLY think you have to be black to be from Africa...it may just be a cultural joke meme that you aren't as aware of....
Load More Replies... Anony Mouse 5 years ago
Buzzfeed posts the same comments in a different order about once a week. It's old.
Sinkvenice 5 years ago
Why do Americans say, "I did it on accident?" It's 'by accident' dammit!
Megan Curl 5 years ago
Only ignorant, uneducated Americans say that, and it drives me batty too.
Load More Replies... Caroline Driver 5 years ago
“Why not tip everyone who you interact with in some way—bus drivers, or leave money on your trash can for the garbage man? It's inconsistent, and waiters, hairdressers, and taxi drivers should just charge us what needs to be charged,” Benny writes in his blog. Completely agree. Bizarre, skewed, c**k eyed, unfair, cruel.
Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
Bored Panda owes me the five minutes it took to read this nonsense.
Lynda Momalo 5 years ago
As for calling these things "stupid questions" -- I'm sure we all have mistaken impressions and ideas that we've picked up over the years about other countries that they'd think were silly.
John Baker 5 years ago
A mistaken impression is one thing. A troll question is quite another.
Load More Replies... Kristin Scarbrough 5 years ago
In the States it's actually spelled 'aluminum' and pronounced that way. According to quora.com "According to the Online Etymology Dictionary English chemist Sir Humphry Davy named the element alumium in 1808 and then changed it to aluminum in 1812. British editors changed it to aluminium to be more in keeping with other elements such as potassium and sodium, while the Americans retained the spelling as aluminum." So a British scientist called it aluminum, but then others wanted it to sound more 'sciencey' but we didn't cooperate, as usual LOL.
Load More Replies... John Baker 5 years ago
This proves only that foreign trolls are just as stupid as American trolls.
Lynda Momalo 5 years ago
For American and non-Americans alike, I think the book that explains best exactly how different and diverse the US is is https://www.amazon.com/American-Nations-History-Regional-Cultures/dp/0143122029 -- or if the link doesn't work, just look up American Nations by Colin Woodard. It truly explains why we'll never really be UNITED states -- we're really 11 separate nations (some partially in other countries) joined together. We think, talk, act, and look at the world in very, very different ways depending on where we grew up because of when and by whom each area was first settled.
Bláthnaid O’Loughlin 5 years ago
Can we make it so that people can add questions? I’ve one I’d like to ask.
Kristie Yuill 5 years ago
I scrolled down here to find all the comments by bitter Americans who constantly make jokes about other countries but can't take it in return. I was not disappointed.
Nirity 5 years ago
Why do muricans believe having healthcare, paid maternity, paid vacation, paid sick days, pensions for elderly, education will drain their economy to bancrupsy and can not work. It works in all other countries in the world, not only the developed ones, but actually all others. Meanwhile they spend billions for military and they just gave the most rich people in the world trilions of dollars. To save them from... what. I dont even know how many zeros a trilion has. Meanwhile the people got some spare change to survive longer in pandemic. Btw if those people die, rich wont have profit - because if the people who do all the real work while paying all the taxes, bills and goods, if those people die who will create the profit. This is insane. And they believe they are the greatest nation. Just WOW.
Marcos Pereira 5 years ago
No worries Nirity, you country is way better in every sense! *sarcasm*........smh
Load More Replies... John Baker 3 years ago
Probably because your s**t isn't funny and we're damned sick and tired of it.
Load More Replies... Karin Jansen 5 years ago
Not necessarily, but it is a big fixation on the US I don't get. Probably because it's such a unique country compared to the rest of the west. I wouldn't have any interesting questions about Norway or Canada for example.
Load More Replies... Caoimhe_Snowleopard 5 years ago
Probably because it's spelled aluminium in the UK and Ireland
Load More Replies... sh 5 years ago
Are there posts non-stop about your country's stereotypes, creating a situation where you constantly have to defend yourself, OR clarify that the stereotypes are completely incorrect? There's a point when it switches from laughing with you to laughing at you, and that gets tiring.
Load More Replies... Mini Shnauzer 5 years ago
Ok, we get it, Americans do weird things. But so do all other countries? I mean, British people call steak fries "crisps"? They're soft? Chips - potato chips - are crispy, and I can see if you'd call steak fries "chips", because they're chips of potato? But "crisps"? They're soft?
Liam Walsh 5 years ago
No, sorry that's not true. We do not call 'steak fries' crisps in the UK. They are chips. Hot, fried chips made from chips of potato and soft (though if cooked properly slightly crunchy on the outside). Crisps in the UK are what Americans call potato chips and ARE crisp - the thin, crispy, crunchy, slices of potatoes sold in bags and eaten cold. I don't care what they are called personally but didn't want you to have the wrong idea. I am very anti the US bashing thing so not joining in on that.
Load More Replies... Logan Colee 5 years ago
So a lot of people have been getting this wrong just wanted to clarify. The United States of America, its the CUSTOMARY system. OK?
John Baker 5 years ago
I only use checks to pay my rent, because that's what my landlord wants. I use my bank card for everything else.
Load More Replies... Ariel Fox 5 years ago
Yes - and what the heck is a "stone", meaning some measurement of weight??
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