USA vs the Rest of the World...

[idahoblues]

The ones over here do that as well. Usually eyebrow dodging women. They also say "sowwey" insread of "sorry" for some reason.

Tho, have been over yet thith year?

 

[MCFCTrick]

And why do they all talk with a croak? Yanks sound like they’re all auditioning to play a frog in a play.

For some reason, this affliction has become much more pronounced in recent years. Seemingly far more in the women. And like all the worst bits of US ''culture'', it's now appearing in a lot of younger women and girls here too. Ditto Aussies.

 

[ell]

Up there with North Korea for brainwashing

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

I always find it weird when Americans mention that. Only 13 states got independence, GA included. I have no idea why the rest of the country celebrates it.

Correct. They didn't win it.

We retained all of Canada, which is what they and their French allies really wanted.

Trade actually increased after the war.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Saw this in the comments section of one of those YouTube videos I was watching yesterday

 

[bluemc1]

 

[SkyBlueCanuck]

Correct. They didn't win it.

We retained all of Canada, which is what they and their French allies really wanted.

Trade actually increased after the war.

And when they came to take it, outnumbering us 5 to 1, Issac Eff'ing Brock and Tecumseh kicked their tails around for two years and kept them south of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence for good!
Those two men deserve to have their names known far more than they are.

 

[urban genie]

Correct. They didn't win it.

We retained all of Canada, which is what they and their French allies really wanted.

Trade actually increased after the war.

1812 when canada kicked their arse, since they have been pretty shit at winning wars, despite them claiming WW2

They are like the scousers of the world stage

 

[yankblue]

@Ric how does one change their username?

 

[I'm With Stupid]

I think a lot of it just comes down to media. How much attention does America get in the UK media? And then compare that to the other way around. Most Brits know more about American politics than they do about any European country, partly because of a lazy media that can't be bothered with pesky things like translation. A comparison for us though might be how little the average Brit knows about Ireland compared to how much the average Irish person knows about the UK. Every now and again, I look up how to pronounce Taoiseach and every time I read it, I forget, because it's just never mentioned in UK media.

But with America, one that really spelled it out for me was when I was watching a little news feature back in the day about the success of Bob the Builder. It was talking about how many countries it had been exported to and showed a few clips in different languages. And one of them was Bob speaking in an American accent, as if American children couldn't possibly handle a British accent in their cartoons, so they had to dub it. Of course Peppa Pig has ruined that now.