Bizarre things Americans do that leave me thoroughly flummoxed [tl;dr version]
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Pink Giraffe — 3 years ago(February 08, 2023 05:02 PM)
Not saying goodbye.
Drives me bonkers. You're chatting with someone, either online or via text, even email, having fun, all of a sudden? Dead stop!! Too ****ing rude to say "goodbye" or "goodnight"! UGH!!! Even at a party; back home, it takes fifteen min to say goodbye before leaving a party. In USA? Where the **** did they go? Why they took English leave?!
Hanging up the phone without saying goodbye. Dafuq? (This is a new one).
I had more but forgot them. OH yeah, this major one, right here:
Letting their kids run amuck in public places. Major no no back home. People behave themselves (except ****ing foreigners!) in public. Maybe yanks need to spend time in Tokyo?
(Not tolerated there either!)
Except my people are more severe than even Asians when it comes to raising kids PROPERLY!
You know "it takes a village", right? My people put your kid in place, in public. If you're rude enough to have raised brats, we will shut them up for you: people will go up to your kid and gently and nicely tell/get them to hush up. If the kid doesn't comply, the mother is talked to. If she talks back like a karen, they are escorted off the store, biz, train, plane. Whatever. We don't want none of your disturbing the peace! (We have special trap doors at the bottom of planes!)
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Pink Giraffe — 3 years ago(February 17, 2023 04:22 AM)
Fail to understand sarcasm
Fail to understand deadpan humor
Fail to understand black humor
Needs to be explained a joke
Needs canned laughter track to be told when to laugh (that stuff drives me up the wall!)
Has 0 comprehension of what humor of the 2nd, 3rd & 4th degree could possibly be!
Whoosh
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Pink Giraffe — 3 years ago(February 17, 2023 04:43 AM)
They stay stupid **** they don't mean:
"If you're ever in town, call me, I'll invite you to have lunch".
You're in town, you call and they go "WTF are you calling me".
Tell ugly people they look "pretty".
Sifting thru yanktard lies is exhausting.
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Pink Giraffe — 3 years ago(February 17, 2023 11:14 AM)
I'm not Irish and I've never been to Ireland.
One more but I posted it elsewhere because I ain't sure if it's a yank thing or a F/b users thing:
https://www.filmboards.com/board/p/21146076/permalink/#p21146076
Though I suspect it might be both!
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Foreigner who fails to grasp the difference between "yank" and "Yankee".