“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.
No, the govt sucks. They don't represent us, although that's their job. Abolish lobbying and make politicians pay for their own healthcare instead of giving them top shelf insurance for life and watch how fast the system changes.
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I'm from the UK. Having my daughter in the ICU for 28 days would have cost precisely nothing. Having surgery and rehab after breaking my arm would have cost precisely nothing, having major heart surgery would have cost me precisely nothing. Living in the "greatest country in the whole goddam earth", I would have been in debt for the rest of my life...........Wake up America, you're not as great as you think you are!!!!!!!
Most of us don’t need to wake up. We know we’re not great. Most of us don’t drink the Kool-Aid.
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Poor guy is this desperate it's not right that it should get that bad.
we have the same problem here in africa, but the quantity of people in this situation, in my country alone, is in the tens of millions. Thanks, extractive capitalism. Thanks, wallstreet, for devaluing our currency.
Universal medical coverage would be un-American... but yeah this, this we're ok with
Ni we're not. But yesterday when I voted only about 30% of eligible voters showed up .
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As a UK resident I have access to free healthcare and I'm eternally grateful we don't have the American style insurance system. It is creeping in to the UK health system and people are fighting tooth and nail to prevent this happening. I find the above photo heartbreaking, no one should have to almost kill themselves having to pay for healthcare. I also find it weird how the Republicans will fight tooth and nail to protect the rights of a child in the womb but as soon as it's born, they don't care if it has healthcare, enough food, shelter, warmth, education etc.
I was sent to the ER for renal failure, stayed there two days. When I recieved the bill, the insurance refused to cover the cost because "it was deemed not an emergency" and I could have gone through treatment as an outpatient. It doesn't matter if my doctor sent me there in the first place. Absurd. Also I still can't get over the $1200 for an hour of IV fluids.
This image makes me sad. Why can't we have free healthcare? This is a common experience with many Americans and it shouldn't be.
Agreed. So, will you be willing to tell your friends-and yourself- to get out and vote? In every election from local ones to the Presidential?? Voting the old white men in ill-fitting suits and the younger idiots like them out of every office is the only way to change anything....
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Sadly we pay for sick children , sick parents , sick pets oh and don't get me started on what we pay for them once they're dead. America is awful I'd gladly leave if I could.
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It’s terrible that we have people creating GoFundMe pages to help pay for healthcare at a time when they should be working on getting better.
wtf is going on in america? sometimes it looks like third world.....
No ONE person on earth should not only have their little kid in the hospital, a terrifying experience alone, I'm sure, but then worry about not having a f*****g house to come home to because you get behind in rent. I literally loathe those who have the power to fix this and DO NOT. They do not care about we, the People, but about power, money and greed. I am so sorry for every American in this situation, because I know there are many.
This makes me livid! The US is the only 1 out of 32 developed nations that does not have universal healthcare. Insurance companies, as well as pharmaceutical companies, put big bucks into the political arena, supporting any elected official that is against universal healthcare. People lose their homes, jobs, savings, retirement, etc. because of healthcare and prescription costs. It's disgusting.
At least he's willing to work, even if it is for an unjust reason that he is so desperate. Tip- run for Congress. Take as much money as you can from your gullible donors , lie about everything, and find someone very rich or the gun lobby to pay you millions of dollars to ignore any gun law that might prevent people getting massacred on almost a daily basis. No, he has too much pride for that. Healthcare system is broken. Save your baby or have somewhere to live.
Parents shouldn’t have to worry about such thing. Why is this possible in so many other countries that are technically less wealthy than the US.
Jees! That sort of thing is awful! That you have to almost make a choice between your kids or your mortgage! FFS, can't your government sort something good out instead of worrying whether or not AR-15s are suitable toys for grown-ups?
Come in Canada! Health care takes a long time to get, but at least it's free.
Takes a long time in US too. Routinely takes 2+ months just to see my GP. Specialists well longer. I am ashamed of us really. In practice the way things work is the antithesis of every single bleedin' value we profess & promote.
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That’s just sad. We have a lot to reform, a lot of representatives to prevent corruption…
This is just tragic. And wrong. Morally wrong. How can one of the countries in the world not care for its most vulnerable?
I hope they either gave the guy some work or donated something, not just stopped to take a picture
Damn, I wish this guy was anywhere near me, as my house needs all those things.
RIP Medical Debt - look it up but carefully, lots of other sites interfere.
There is something wrong when billionaires taxes ar3 sometimes the same as ours .
What a sad, sad situation. We're not the biggest or richest country in the world, but here in Austalia this could never happen. I hope the guy got what he is looking for.
Tell this man to do a gofundme. It will be his only chanceto pay the bills
What a horrible position to be in. No one should have to go thru this. Also, no one should have to make a decision between health care for our children, paying rent, paying utilities, or buying food for our families.
I might add that in Hawaii, Hawaiian children get free health care at Queen's Hospital on Oahu. I don't know how many other hospitals or facilities in HI do this.
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If/when they end up homeless, people will have nothing except negative assumptions/accusations to say, and no help to give. People act as if being homeless is a punishment for criminals and that those in that position have somehow "earned/deserve" it. 😤
The medical industry in America is out of control. Driven by profit and doesn't give a flying eff about you.
Sorry, but I don't blindly believe these signs. I've seen some really creative ones and watched the people holding them climb in and out of sports cars. Some people certainly need the help, but others have so little morals that they're willing to beg rather than work and make out quite well doing it
This is one of the saddest images of the USA I have ever seen, do better people.
At least he's trying and not sitting on the off ramp begging. I hope someone helps him out
We have to do better. I sure hope all worked out and he's able to have some free time with his little girl.
Yes, and still can't afford his medical bills
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Does the math seem weird to anyone else? The kid is over a year and a half old but was in ICU for under a months? I don't understand how he is in so much trouble financially?
When I read stuff like this aimed at the USA, yeah we have issues, but so does every other country in some form or another. Things could be worse, right?
Problem is you never know if it's true. People will go to this extreme to be given money. This is either very sad or extremely abhorrent.
Do we have to bring politics into everything? Jesus man
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He literally listed what jobs he's willing to do. It's LITERALLY in writing.
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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
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.
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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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