“This Is Violently American”: 45 Posts From A Facebook Group Dedicated To Things That Could Only Come From The States
Giant portions, big trucks, and nigh-on endless refills of soda (poo or cola, depending on your location) might all be part of everyday life or something you look at in wonder on the internet. We are, of course, talking about the parts of life that, to use the parlance of the time, might “send people into a coma.”
This Facebook page is dedicated to content that is perfectly described by its one name, that is, “violently American.” So scroll through, upvote your favorite posts, and comment your own experiences with things that are unmistakably and authentically American.
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Used my $5 off $20 purchase at Safeway. Used it to buy Schar sourdough.
If I could UP vote by a 1000 votes I would...no questions asked?!!!!!!!!!!
In the UK we use feet and metres. Does that make us all bi in some way?
One of the more obvious signs of “American excess” is, of course, the massive, breaded pork tenderloin sandwich, a regional specialty of the Midwest. Now, the eagle-eyed among you may notice that it bares a very close resemblance to the classic Wiener Schnitzel (Wien is just the German spelling of Vienna), however, the American variant uses exclusively pork loin, while the traditional Austrian variant uses veal, though these days one can find variants using almost any meat or meat substitute.
After all, deep frying isn’t rocket science, but American cuisine has gotten pretty good at it. One can find nearly everything cooked this way, from pickles to whole sticks of butter. Of course, it must be said that the origin of many of these items comes from European cooking traditions, where settlers took methods from the old world and applied them to the more readily available American food items. For example, Scotland can boast of creating the deep-fried Mars bar, which spiritually seems like an American food item.
This must be a joke? Okay calm down I mean there some dickheads out there who might be seriously suggesting it.
I am gonna say yes, however most states have a victim impact fund that assist. Every hospital in USA is required to give a certain percentage of earnings back in the form of VHARITY. They do not advertise this fact. PEOPLE MUST ASK FOR IT!! 😡😡
Another question many have about the United States is why they love pickup trucks so much. Most people are not actually transporting things regularly, but will happily trade half the space in their vehicle for the ability to hypothetically transport an ATV or some firewood. It’s important to understand that Americans don’t just like pickups, they like vehicles in general. The United States is a big, open place, where one really needed a horse and/or carriage to get anywhere.
It’s no surprise that the first, readily available and mass-produced car, the Ford Model T, was invented precisely in the US, as there was a great deal of demand for something that could get you across great distances pretty quickly. While in this day and age, most people are not doing manual labor and trucks have replaced smaller vehicles as a means of overland transportation of goods, the popularity of the pickup has not diminished. Modern models still have enough space for your family, for example, as the design shifts to meet contemporary needs.
A more annoying part of living in the United States is the constant reminders of safety, “warning, hot coffee, do not eat this sandwich wrapper” and so on. Many point to this as representing some degree of public stupidity, but this isn’t accurate. Americans simply love to sue companies that have done them harm. Americans spend roughly 310 billion dollars a year suing someone, making it easily the most litigious country in the world.
The result is that most businesses will do their utmost to limit their liability. There is an abundance of lawyers in the US and the nation's common law system and the use of “juries of your peers” give regular people the ability to demand compensation from corporations, if they can prove some form of injury. So when McDonald's tells you that coffee is hot, they don’t think you are dumb, they are just trying to prevent another Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants.
Had to look this guy up - Indian comedian who also tweeted, "I come from an India where a comedian is held to higher standards of accountability than the elected prime minister of a democracy." Sames in America, sames.
While not unique to the US, Americans do love their highways. As a nation where the car is more accessible and common than in most places worldwide, the US built a massive amount of public infrastructure allowing citizens and visitors alike to go all over the country from the comfort of their motor vehicles. However, this over-dependence on cars has made transportation lopsided, so car-based infrastructure gets the majority of resources which continues the cycle of car dependency.
All those words are spelled correctly. That's what you call English. Not the bastardised language called American English.
Meh, different dialects of English. All of them are still English.
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I hate when autocorrect is constantly trying to tell me to put Z's in words.
Oh, noes!! She seems to have acquired an ENGLISH copy! Please, won’t someone get her the AMERICAN one! SMH
Yeah she actually did! I realiZed that only when I read the comments.
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English is english, even if some of us use the traditional spelling and not the Americanified spelling... Not British but I like using the british spellings XD
I like the way some of the British spelled words look better, but I have to try and remember to spell them like that, because I'm conditioned to spell it the US way. It's easier for me to change the ways letters look in my handwriting than to remember to add or change letters for some reason. (I seriously switched up how I write letters all the time. Recently, uppercase E's became backwards threes, which I really like and so do other people)
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Oh my... And I get discouraged when I read reviews like this... massive facepalm! And faZepalm AND faSepalm! (Sorry, I know it hurts to read it with an S and a Z... but she really deserves them all! ;p)
"We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language." - Oscar Wilde
English 101 it's wrote by an English person so shush and STOREY is levels of a building STORY is something you tell or read! Same as WHISKY NOT whiskey as that sounds like something you do to a cake mix
Whisky is Scottish, Whiskey is Irish. There's apparently a brewing difference as well, but as I don't drink alcohol I can't comment further.
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The funniest part is that "Misspellings" in bold only has one s, making it misspelled
With more and more people speaking English, I wonder if there will ever be a common ground someday. I‘m from Germany and we started learning English in 5th grade (that was in the 80s/ 90s - my kids are now beginning at grade 1 and I know of some Kindergartens who teach it). We started with British English and I can’t remember if it switched or if they introduced us to American English simultaneously but I clearly remember a teacher saying that they do not care which one we use, as long as we are consistent and use only one of them. I think I am definitely mixing them up and thank goodness for spellcheck.
Eva is apparently not as well read as she seems to think she is. I constantly have people (friends mostly) ask why I spell it "grey". Because it's cooler.
I find it really sad that in language lists, there's English and there's Simplified/American English.
British newspapers actually had enough money to buy paper.... If you are wondering wtf i am talking about, educate yourselves 😉
Every time I see "judgment" spelled with an E I want to skin the writer alive.
Aren't those French words brought over by your Norman conquerors?
I remember my British classmate going on a full rant about this issue and Americans dropping letters everywhere. When I brought up that "gray" and "grey" are interchangeable here, he nearly had an apoplectic fit!
Those are the correct English spellings. Americans can't spell, neither could Webster. Get a good English dictionary, not an American one.
Well, don't read it . Watch a video (hopefully without those pesky subtitles that won't offend your spelling sensitivities)
The fact that 2 people found it helpful is baffling. One was probably OP
Ok. American here. I've seen all the others, but I've never seen "storey." Is that a correct alternative spelling?
I've seen it explained here as some replies that storey is specifically a level of a house, not like a story book
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And her review title is misspelled. Where is Alanis Morissette when you need her?
I f**k people up because I use both american and english spellings of words. They are both correct
I am proud of us Americans. Standing up for the little guy like the letter "Z". It doesn't get used enough so we saw that and decided to help it out. Give it some of "S" letters to boost its self esteem.
Fun Fact: I was raised near the Canadian border and my high school English teachers accepted both American English or British/Canadian English spelling. More over, they could be combined in some sort of crazy mix of the student had specific understanding of the word. Most of the students crossed the border frequently for shopping, errands, and tourism.
If I wanted to sound like a bloody toff, I'd be living in squalorous UK
When we ran out of hotdog buns because Marines can't math so they gave us a hamburger patty instead
My favorite part of this post is it was suggested for me.
Is this really an American thing? I would imagine that there are people all over the world who do stuff like this?
For me, it’s the unnecessary apostrophes that brand it American.
Ah yes, on 'health' bread. Who needs health care when you have health bread
I genuinely do not know what he means by "rippin' lips", and I'm also genuinely scared of whatever it does mean
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Let me break it down for yall: first, we will never be European. We're from the states. So, we have a culture unique to the US. We have our own style of humor, we have have distinctly American hobbies. We have our unique cultural idiosyncrasies. We do admit we have room for improvement, and we're working on it. In closing my TED talk, let me remind yall that Europe isn't the bastion of righteous perfection either. Also, I apologize for Trump and Christian nationalism.
We don't have a unified culture in the US any more than the entirety of Europe has one unified culture. I live in New England. I briefly lived in the Southwest and felt like a stranger in a strange land the whole time I was there. Nothing about the Southwest was familiar to me. I've been in the Deep South, and everything there is unfamiliar to me, as if I'm from a different country. And most of the garbage in this article was completely strange to me.
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Do you Americans from the USA get sick of people taking the p**s out of you.
Fück yes, we do, but dare to say anything about it and you get downvoted into oblivion.
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Oh gosh golly gee! Can it be? BoredPanda went almost an entire month without spreading stereotypes about the United States and other countries, but here we are back at it. I honestly would love to know if BoredPanda listicle creators have to meet a monthly quota of United States bashing posts or they risk losing their jobs. I mean, it would explain a hell of a lot about this site.
Come on man... one American to another, it's hardly stereotypes at this point. And poking fun is hardly the worst thing possible, a little grace.
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I agree. It's like that elsewhere too. I'll never forget the first time I visited Malaysia. My viewing choices in my hotel room were violence, violence and more gory violence. Not one romantic movie or even something like holding hands or kissing.
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American expat here. Sure the US deserves criticism. But where are the BP posts bashing Russia? China? Iran? North Korea? Maybe there's one of these posts now and then, but the US bashing is a specialty.
Did you know there are more places in America than the deep south Bored Panda,?
But the Deep South is so ripe for parody! 😄
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Please just downvote it from the main BP page so the entire article gets pushed off the BP home page.
People find this stuff funny ig. Totally agree tho
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Bla bla bla. Same BP s**t, different day. I'd think everyone is bored with it, not just pandas. Nothing to see here folks, move along.
This is bothering me. We don't call soda poo. I think you mean pop?
Please remember that the USA is MUCH younger than damn near every other country. Y'all have had your ups, downs and growing pains along the way. Now we are. We have SO MUCH ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT and we're working on it, slowly but surely. But the constant USA bashing doesn't help. Speedgoat & Arik, thank you both for your honesty and reminding us we're not all bad!
Umm... the USA isn't that young. There are SO MANY countries that were formed after 1789. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_date_of_formation
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Guys the introduction says poo or cola instead of pop or cola
Sorry. I know it is just a little typo, but that bit in the first line of the introduction got me giggling. It was a very strange mental picture with "endless refills of soda (poo or cola, depending on your location)."
I'm disappointed there's no pictures of idiots wearing guns in a Texas Walmart. Nothing more American than showing off how small your reproductive organ actually is!
#37 is a specialty burger that comes from a small Canadian Meat Market called Schinkels Meat Market in Essex, Ontario. Just FYI.
To think, this was once the country that put men on the moon. Now degenerated into anti-vaxxers, flat-earthers and brainwashed into thinking their country is the best - and it seems, the only one in the world, with no desire to research, read or learn. How the mighty have fallen. They can't see that most of the world n longer desire to be like them.
Can we do Australia next, coz Goddamn there is some f****d up s**t happening over here at the moment. Not to mention the past couple of hundred years
I live in Australia. We don't know if we're European or North American. We have Europe's coffee culture and North America 's car culture. I think we're a bit confused.
Honestly, as an American, I im fine with these kinds of things. I am not particularly fond of America myself (I know that there are good parts, but... it's not great)
It’s just hard to make posts laughing at other countries because a lot of it would be hard to translate to English!
As an American that was funny. But again, they're not all neccesarily American things.
Did this title always say "violently american"? have they grown in numb er ?
It's not the pictures or memes I mind. It's the alt-left comments underneath. And god forbid you disagree w/ them and have your own opinion.
Well we killed most of them over the years, and they don't go around wearing feather headress every day. (Not to trivialize Native genocide, but we all know this dude is an idiot)
Load More Replies... Let me break it down for yall: first, we will never be European. We're from the states. So, we have a culture unique to the US. We have our own style of humor, we have have distinctly American hobbies. We have our unique cultural idiosyncrasies. We do admit we have room for improvement, and we're working on it. In closing my TED talk, let me remind yall that Europe isn't the bastion of righteous perfection either. Also, I apologize for Trump and Christian nationalism.
We don't have a unified culture in the US any more than the entirety of Europe has one unified culture. I live in New England. I briefly lived in the Southwest and felt like a stranger in a strange land the whole time I was there. Nothing about the Southwest was familiar to me. I've been in the Deep South, and everything there is unfamiliar to me, as if I'm from a different country. And most of the garbage in this article was completely strange to me.
Load More Replies... Do you Americans from the USA get sick of people taking the p**s out of you.
Fück yes, we do, but dare to say anything about it and you get downvoted into oblivion.
Load More Replies... Oh gosh golly gee! Can it be? BoredPanda went almost an entire month without spreading stereotypes about the United States and other countries, but here we are back at it. I honestly would love to know if BoredPanda listicle creators have to meet a monthly quota of United States bashing posts or they risk losing their jobs. I mean, it would explain a hell of a lot about this site.
Come on man... one American to another, it's hardly stereotypes at this point. And poking fun is hardly the worst thing possible, a little grace.
Load More Replies... Photo of the statue of David shown in a school and they must protect the children. Mass shooting in a school and they must protect the guns.
I agree. It's like that elsewhere too. I'll never forget the first time I visited Malaysia. My viewing choices in my hotel room were violence, violence and more gory violence. Not one romantic movie or even something like holding hands or kissing.
Load More Replies... American expat here. Sure the US deserves criticism. But where are the BP posts bashing Russia? China? Iran? North Korea? Maybe there's one of these posts now and then, but the US bashing is a specialty.
Did you know there are more places in America than the deep south Bored Panda,?
But the Deep South is so ripe for parody! 😄
Load More Replies... Please just downvote it from the main BP page so the entire article gets pushed off the BP home page.
People find this stuff funny ig. Totally agree tho
Load More Replies... Bla bla bla. Same BP s**t, different day. I'd think everyone is bored with it, not just pandas. Nothing to see here folks, move along.
This is bothering me. We don't call soda poo. I think you mean pop?
Please remember that the USA is MUCH younger than damn near every other country. Y'all have had your ups, downs and growing pains along the way. Now we are. We have SO MUCH ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT and we're working on it, slowly but surely. But the constant USA bashing doesn't help. Speedgoat & Arik, thank you both for your honesty and reminding us we're not all bad!
Umm... the USA isn't that young. There are SO MANY countries that were formed after 1789. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_date_of_formation
Load More Replies... Guys the introduction says poo or cola instead of pop or cola
Sorry. I know it is just a little typo, but that bit in the first line of the introduction got me giggling. It was a very strange mental picture with "endless refills of soda (poo or cola, depending on your location)."
I'm disappointed there's no pictures of idiots wearing guns in a Texas Walmart. Nothing more American than showing off how small your reproductive organ actually is!
#37 is a specialty burger that comes from a small Canadian Meat Market called Schinkels Meat Market in Essex, Ontario. Just FYI.
To think, this was once the country that put men on the moon. Now degenerated into anti-vaxxers, flat-earthers and brainwashed into thinking their country is the best - and it seems, the only one in the world, with no desire to research, read or learn. How the mighty have fallen. They can't see that most of the world n longer desire to be like them.
Can we do Australia next, coz Goddamn there is some f****d up s**t happening over here at the moment. Not to mention the past couple of hundred years
I live in Australia. We don't know if we're European or North American. We have Europe's coffee culture and North America 's car culture. I think we're a bit confused.
Honestly, as an American, I im fine with these kinds of things. I am not particularly fond of America myself (I know that there are good parts, but... it's not great)
It’s just hard to make posts laughing at other countries because a lot of it would be hard to translate to English!
As an American that was funny. But again, they're not all neccesarily American things.
Did this title always say "violently american"? have they grown in numb er ?
It's not the pictures or memes I mind. It's the alt-left comments underneath. And god forbid you disagree w/ them and have your own opinion.
Well we killed most of them over the years, and they don't go around wearing feather headress every day. (Not to trivialize Native genocide, but we all know this dude is an idiot)
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