“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.
When we ran out of hotdog buns because Marines can't math so they gave us a hamburger patty instead
You mean the gag Ball of encouragement?
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69 hours overtime + 40 normal time = 109 hours. 15 and half hours a day, 7 days a week. I think it is called slavery.
This is a terrible fact of the U.S.A. The businesses work people to death and do not care about them at all .
Or give us more money? It’s not that damn hard! Edit: I know the thing
Don't they have legal limits in the USA? In the UK/EU: 'If your contract states that you are required to work from one specified time to another (e.g. 9 am to 5 pm), your employer cannot legally change this without your consent.'. And "You can choose to work more than 48 hours a week on average if you’re over 18. This is called ‘opting out’. Your employer can ask you to opt out, but you cannot be sacked or treated unfairly for refusing to do so. You can opt out for a certain period or indefinitely. It must be voluntary and in writing.' Also: You cannot opt out of the 48-hour week if you’re: airline staff; a worker on ships or boats; a worker in the road transport industry, for example, delivery drivers (except for drivers of vehicles under 3.5 tonnes using GB Domestic drivers’ hours' rules); other staff who travel in and operate vehicles covered by EU rules on drivers’ hours, for example, bus conductors, a security guard on a vehicle carrying high-value goods.
And this is the capitalistic hellscaspe our ancestors fought so hard for 😊
The chain is in lieu of actual payment for said overtime
I know people who work for Kellogg's cereals and 80-100 a week is normal. $23 an hour starting pay but never time to spend it.
In the u.s., unless you're in a union, often they pay you nothing extra for o.t. What the laws say has little to do with what actually happens
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'Champ' gets free representation for violation of 'Child Labor Laws'!
Then, next week, be the proud owner of a collapse, because you've worked yourself too hard. (sarcasm)
Don't wear it on deliveries... we don't want our customers to know what s**t bosses... we mean... we're uhh, concerned about your safety! YEAH, that it it's all about YOU!
The biggest tragedy of this is the government taxing more of our overtime than they already do to our regular pay.
Fun fact! I used to work for this pizza company! Its not really a company more then a bunch of small crappy franchise stores. The one i used to work for used to have a large pizza deal for 12$ when i started and now 3 years later its 22$. The deal was a large pizza 1 topping a soda and garlic bread. Lots of people think the pizzas good, better then dominos but the pizza dough haves no flavor at all. Along with more facts this five star pizza is in florida. There are also 3 other types of five star pizza company's in California, all have different spelling.
Yes. In the USPS, time and one half after 8 hours and double time after 10 hours. There's also " night pay" after 6 pm. But during December you only get straight pay.
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I'm not sure what's worse, the reward for doing the most overtime, or the fact you need to hide it because you'd get robbed.
My company loves that I'll always say yes to overtime (single, no kids, boring) but I love 150% for 75% effort. Hahaha... also very American that that's my retirement plan. Haha.
Would that be Flava's huge chain with the clock on it? (do I have the right idiot?)
My personal record is 94 hours in one week. That's harvest season for you.
Now there's some bling that I would fling rather than be sporting... XP
And where is the overtime earnings? Oh there aren't any. Welcome to America where the word employee simply substituted the word slave
That's a lie, there are labor laws and you have to pay overtime pay in the US.
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What's wrong with overtime? When I was non-exempt (hourly) I'd try to get as much as possible - that time and a half and double-time (1.5x and 2x pay) add up huge! Once salaried, most of my guys would beg for OT every single day - and every week there were at least a few with 100+ hours. We could never have an award or recognition like this because it would make everybody else jealous!
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
Note: this post originally had 48 images. It’s been shortened to the top 45 images based on user votes.
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.
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.
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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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