Comment on The American mind cannot comprehend this

LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Hyperreality@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I find these kinds of threads funny.

  Someone makes an admittedly lame jokey stereotype about the US.

  A bit like a broad stereotype about the French liking baguettes, the Scots hating Scots, the Brits having bad teeth and talking like Austin Powers, or Germans not having a sense of humour. Even the Germans don't get offended. They've been taught that this is meant to be funny, and that the rules of etiquette suggest they should not be offended by it.

  But the real punch line is always some humourless Americans taking it at face value and getting genuinely offended. "They're saying we don't have public transport. They're clearly idiots!"

  Do any of you see times square on various holidays or have been to a parade?

  No. No one outside the US has ever heard of New York. Just like everyone in the US drives a pickup truck everywhere. lol

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  • LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    👌

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  • PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We’ll join in unoffended when there’s a mass shooting joke.

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• wsweg@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But America bad and its people stupid

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  • adorablepeanut@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well, no. However, the way that roughly half of y’all vote is utterly incomprehensible from this side of the pond.

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