The UK culturally approriating USA culture

kwerk said:
That's an interesting point. The class system in the US is almost completely economic. But the tastes stay the same. A working class guy drives a 10 year old pickup with dents and scratches in the bed. He grills hamburgers on a cheap Weber. A middle class guy drives a new pickup with leather seats and not a scratch on the bed. He grills hamburgers on a $1000 Green Egg or huge gas grill. But they both drive pickups and eat hamburgers. Americans like to impress people with money, but the British like to impress people with tastes or "culture" or whatever.

The US is probably the least snobby place I've ever been. You can do what you like and nobody cares. People are very content without desperately trying to glob on to new/foreign things to prove what great taste they have. All it takes to move between classes is money. Everyone is happy just eating hamburgers at the end of the day.
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Lolkwerk. Hold on a sec, you are spot on. Often hear americans discussing different classes like it can be defined by the size of your bank account or how much money you spend a month. Misses the point entirely, but that's just how they do it.
 
kwerk said:
That's an interesting point. The class system in the US is almost completely economic. But the tastes stay the same. A working class guy drives a 10 year old pickup with dents and scratches in the bed. He grills hamburgers on a cheap Weber. A middle class guy drives a new pickup with leather seats and not a scratch on the bed. He grills hamburgers on a $1000 Green Egg or huge gas grill. But they both drive pickups and eat hamburgers. Americans like to impress people with money, but the British like to impress people with tastes or "culture" or whatever.

The US is probably the least snobby place I've ever been. You can do what you like and nobody cares. People are very content without desperately trying to glob on to new/foreign things to prove what great taste they have. All it takes to move between classes is money. Everyone is happy just eating hamburgers at the end of the day.
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Their highschool experience however is way more classist than ours. And that is based on the experiences of many of my friends (not just US teen films/tv shows :p)
 
Mason- said:

@Jean-F :)
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Go to the top of the class Mason, an absolute classic, which entertained me immensely, I can see quite clearly now why I get the deserved shovel loads of opprobrium on here that I do over my fractured use of the language.
Unfortunately, being the stubborn, ornery sunavabitch that I am, I’ll still be using the idiom ass backards, but I sincerely thank you for your input, I repeat, an entertaining classic, thanks again, Jean-F ❤️
 
you missed Tim Hortons.

best coffee i have ever tasted in my life is the french vanilla latte from timmies. i don't even like coffee that much but it made me convert. second best would be the no sugar iced vanilla latte from mcdonalds i had in vancouver.

we now have 2 tim horton's in glasgow. i say bring it on. we need A&W to come over here now as well as Wendy's.

it's a shame Canada gets so many more flavours and products than we do. Even there nando's over there is better for sides. they do "fresh hot crisps". however no pittas, only wraps so there is a downside too.
 
kwerk said:
Americans like to impress people with money, but the British like to impress people with tastes or "culture" or whatever.
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I don't think we really do it to impress, as such... Merely to reaffirm our social superiority.

kwerk said:
The US is probably the least snobby place I've ever been. You can do what you like and nobody cares.
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What, like burning the flag? :D
Also, is this the same US that gets offended over the slightest thing, of late?

kwerk said:
People are very content without desperately trying to glob on to new/foreign things to prove what great taste they have. All it takes to move between classes is money. Everyone is happy just eating hamburgers at the end of the day.
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It seems a great many of them are proud enough of their various foreign roots that they rather promote their own foreign stuff than that f other foreigners.
But the real problem is racism rather than classism - As Reginald D Hunter says he explains it to his countrymen: "The British have to have the class system, because they're so crap at being racist"!! :D
 
ttaskmaster said:
I don't think we really do it to impress, as such... Merely to reaffirm our social superiority.

Everyone loves a comic.


What, like burning the flag? :D
Also, is this the same US that gets offended over the slightest thing, of late?

Burning the flag is protected by the 1st Amendment, as it’s seen as symbolic of speech, and the most recent attempt at a “Desecration Amendment”, was defeated in Congress by one vote in 2006.


It seems a great many of them are proud enough of their various foreign roots that they rather promote their own foreign stuff than that f other foreigners.
But the real problem is racism rather than classism - As Reginald D Hunter says he explains it to his countrymen: "The British have to have the class system, because they're so crap at being racist"!! :D
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From what I’ve seen, the Brits are pretty good at racism, sometimes better than the Americans, certainly better at it, (or worse), than those Americans from north of the MD/PA State Line.
 
dl8860 said:
It wasn't friendly advice, I was being snarky. But you must know, any annoyance I caused you is 1/1000th of the annoyance you cause others by saying 'I could care less'.
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Saw this on City-Data, a U.S. forum, and couldn’t resist it:

Oh, I think Crows are so interesting!

I love how they congregate on a residential street & then act like they have the right of way. They could literally care less how many pounds of metal & glass are coming down the road towards them. They’re like: “Don’t rush me “.
 
Jean-F said:
Saw this on City-Data, a U.S. forum, and couldn’t resist it:

Oh, I think Crows are so interesting!

I love how they congregate on a residential street & then act like they have the right of way. They could literally care less how many pounds of metal & glass are coming down the road towards them. They’re like: “Don’t rush me “.
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Introducing the word literally into that phrase is one of the few ways to make it eeeeven more annoying and ridiculous.
 
Jean-F said:
I probably grew up, and went into adulthood saying, “I couldn’t care less”, but somewhere along the line I gained the opinion that when a character in a U.S. movie or TV show, or book, said “I could care less”, they really, emphatically, vehemently, were conveying a stronger depth of feeling about the subject.
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How can "I could care less" possibly be a stronger depth of feeling on a subject that you're not interested in? If anything, it conveys a sense that you actually do care about the subject and could care a little less if you tried.

"I couldn't care less" means you don't care at all. "I could care less" doesn't make sense in this context.

I have no idea how people come up with stuff like this and use it in daily life. It makes you sound foolish. It's like "bought" vs "brought". How people get to "brought" as a form of "bought" is beyond me. Nevermind...
 
CHokKA said:
I have no idea how people come up with stuff like this and use it in daily life. It makes you sound foolish.
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Morons gonna moron.

I should really follow my own advice and not get worked up over stuff like that. The one quote that gets me through most days is from the wonderful Super Hans (Peep Show);
Super Hans said:
People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis, you can’t trust people Jez.
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:p:(
 
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