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A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

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olives black posted:

Don't office workers in Denmark litter peoples' desks with the Denmark flag when it's their birthday?
At most you'd get a single flag in most places I think, though I've literally never seen it done. We do use the flag as decoration for celebrations, arguably to put that celebration on the level of official flag flying day celebrations - meaning the birthday of a little kid for example is raised up in importance to the level of that of the queen's. Obviously it does enforce nationalism by associating the flag with celebrations, but there is no conscious awareness of the nationalist connotation when (most) people do it - for better or worse. I don't think the same can be said for people hanging flags on their houses.

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A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

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palindrome posted:

Whoa, you have brain space devoted to thinking about a queen? I never considered that, I just have a constant low key burning fervor for freedom. :911:
americans devote more brain space to royalty than any other people. both to go "ew, royalty" and to worship/hate their own elected monarchs

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Scrub-Niggurath posted:

I would think that not using negative numbers as frequently would be more intuitive
it seems more intuitive than "water freezes below 32"

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Sep 4, 2011

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yellowcar posted:

when speaking to someone who is not fluent in english they speak louder and slower as if that helps or does anything lol
implying that americans are fluent in english. maybe most of them understand the broadest american tv dialect, but the moment you start bringing in any regional flavor their brain apparently just shuts off, based on how people react to characters like snoop on the wire

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silicone thrills posted:

I think the US is like one of the only countries in the that washes chicken eggs which is why ours aren't room temp stable for months like everyone elses eggs. Its such bullshit. And its because there's so much salmonella rampant.
Makes sense really. Keeps cost low, while pushing sales volumes up. The real mystery is that they've not developed a special egg shell-eating chicken disease to make eggs even more perishable.

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Sep 4, 2011

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slinkimalinki posted:

It's polite to check, lest one inadvertently insult a canadian
non-french canadians are americans

Trixie Hardcore posted:

Minnesota is roughly the same size as the United Kingdom, Ghana or Laos.
in terms of area perhaps. in terms of population it is tiny, and also not sovereign in any fashion.

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Sep 4, 2011

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Trixie Hardcore posted:

lol if you think the UK could win a fight against Minnesota
another thing americans do: make everything about violence

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mawarannahr posted:

this isn’t particular to Americans at all really
just because some americanized people also do it doesn't mean it's not an american thing

canadians = americans, as we've already established

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mawarannahr posted:

this is a bigger problem elsewhere than the USA, Americans are just louder than other people.
comparing the us to the WHO european region, it has about twice as many cases of food poisoning. the WHO european region includes not only europe proper, but also the entirety of russia, turkey, the caucasus, and central asia, making americans about 7 times more likely to poison themselves/each other.

you can also see it in popular culture, where americans talk about "stomach flues" like it's a perfectly normal thing that doesn't warrant a comment

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Sep 4, 2011

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Abner Assington posted:

Blame the English for the using the word soccer first.
the english are americans too

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Scrub-Niggurath posted:

this one’s admittedly pretty hosed up
It's the closest America comes to using metric. M = 1,000. MxM = 1,000,000.

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is pepsi ok posted:

Insisting that we had no other choice and actually it saved lives if you really think about it.
The Manhattan Project saved lives because they had set aside like a handful of cities as test subjects for the bomb, sparing those cities from firebombing raids.

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Weka posted:

How can it be an affair if you are work married?
Yep. It's called a work-life balance, which clearly implies that life is separate from work. The only way it's an affair is if you gently caress anyone but your work spouse during work hours, or your life spouse outside work hours.

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In Training posted:

That's not enough types of cereal
If someone hadn't halted the trend in 2012, this year would have been the year where America would have had more types of cereal than people.

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Sep 4, 2011

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ELTON JOHN posted:

do you trust the people selling you the filters tho
pros: removes lead
cons: adds mercury

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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

the only things that exist in america that aren't monetized are things that were created as public goods before like 1970. everything after that has been monetized as much as possible. if we just now started building public bathrooms, we'd be putting credit card activated locks on every stall door, sink, toilet, hand dryer, etc.
door unlocks mid-poo poo, after which a ram pushes the occupant right out of the stall, if they failed to put enough coins in when unlocking it initially.

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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

The best way to monetize a bathroom would be to have a free to access toilet with a paid toilet paper dispenser, preferably one where you'd have to scan a qr code and download an invasive app on your phone
Wrong. American men think wiping their rear end is gay, so they'd poo poo for free.

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a strange fowl posted:

a lot of white australians slip into this horrible broad cockney-adjacent fake accent when they feel challenged and want to keep control of the situation without looking like they're panicking. it's like people who whistle when they're nervous, they're like "oh it makes me look chill and laid back" but actually it's more excruciating for everyone then if they just screamed and threw poo poo like normal people
this just like posting lol/lmao at the end of a post

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Weka posted:

I knew Americans were disgusting but to steal hand sanitizer from a public dispenser, that's just low.
They're wrapping their mouths around the dispenser and just slurping it down.

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HashtagGirlboss posted:

When I was a kid the neighborhood bully got in trouble one year for holding a Roman candle like a wand and shooting it at the kindly old golden retriever that lived on the block

Poor pup
i first read this as bully [dog breed], and figured at least one dog had hardened the gently caress up

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another thing americans will do is post about how totally normal it is to drive drunk, so normal that it's basically impossible not to have done it, probably multiple times, but without specifically admitting anything

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slinkimalinki posted:

Americans still love talking about how Fahrenheit is an "intuitive" measure of weather without grasping that any measurement of weather seems intuitive if you've grown up with it. Gonna invent a system where 57.5 is really cold and 0.3 is hot and if I raise a bunch of kids with it, they'll never shut up about how it's the only natural and intuitive system.
Come now, you need to define some "intuitive" points for your scale, like:

-100°B = Black body temperature of Earth
0°B = Temperature of a healthy human body

It's easy to remember because both reference a body.

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Eight-Six posted:

out: prom theme night
in: "school shooting at the prom" theme night
america is close to the tipping point where it becomes "prom at the school shooting"

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Sep 4, 2011

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exmarx posted:

thread is about americans, not for americans. cheers!
things americans do: invade

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HashtagGirlboss posted:

I love this story so much because there’s absolutely no way that many people hadn’t already landed on the sandwich concept but some rich guy does it and it gets trendy for other rich guys and ooh now we have an invention
He stole his servant's lunch and called it an invention.

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Sep 4, 2011

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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

italians did not invent pizza
it was invented by germans

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Boat Stuck posted:

Wait, why?

How is vibrating water molecules from a fire any different than directly vibrating the water molecules?
kettle-boiled water contains a higher concentration of heavy water, which makes it taste better

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TheSlutPit posted:

Americans: Noooo we're not racist anymore chattel slavery ended like 160 years ago and we had the civil rights movement and a black president and furthermore America is acutally very multicultural and and...
Euros: Yup, we're racist. Problem?
europeans will post about how gypsies are beasts and that shooting refugee boats to smithereens is good, claim that's sensible nationalism for adults, and then decry america for being uncouth racists. we're definitely no self-assured enough to embrace the label and complain about how american mongrels are dragging the good name of racism through the mud.

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A Buttery Pastry
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