Comment on Does the rest of the English speaking world generally understand what an American means when they say "soccer", or does it help to clarify by adding "football"?

• duffkiligan@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  America isn’t a British colony, we won a whole war about that.

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  • Th4tGuyII@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Isn't now, but it was a colony, and that's more than enough for us to shit on it

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• RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Imagine going from one of the biggest powers in the world, owning more than 25%% of the entire Earth and having one of the biggest navies on the planet, to losing nearly all of it and returning back to an island approximately the size of Madagascar. Even losing a war of independence, and having to ask the winner that beat them for help in WWII because they were losing. All that, and it’s citizens have the audacity to keep making fun of Americans.

  You know, looking at it that way, it really makes Britain look really petty. Which is rather appropriate.

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  • alignedchaos@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Did you know making fun can be friendly and fun

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  • Th4tGuyII@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You say that like most of us aren't in on the joke - good banter is one of the few things we Brits even produce anymore...

    It ruins the fun if you take it too seriously, which (from my experience) Americans seem to do a lot - that's one of the other things that outs you guys amongst Brits fairly quickly.

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