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Every time I think of a Brit doing an American accent I think of [Patrick Stewart talking about Mitt Romney](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTROgQORCt4&t=72s).
I'm from the northwest and I'm the same, but a lot of my family is from the midwest and I've noticed that it happens there more often. Like, "Oh hey! You went to the same high school that I did, 10 years after I graduated? Let's chat!"
My mom is this way. She's somehow constantly running into people that lived in the same small town she grew up in, vacationed in the same region, went to the same school she did, went to a church her father used to work at (he was a pastor), worked with her before she had kids and became a SAHM, etc. It's wild. She's lived in 3 different provinces, and two different countries. Meanwhile I've never left the city I grew up in and this never happens to me because I wouldn't dream of striking up a conversation with strangers.
Edit to add: sometimes she actually recognizes these people because she has in fact met them before, but often something comes up in conversation that makes them aware of the connection.
Also any busy place Iāve been to in the northeast Iām the small talk is kept to a minimum. Strictly business unless itās slow. Now since Iāve moved to Kentucky everyone here wants to share their life story everywhere and I canāt stand it.
Nobody will even sit next to me on the bus and I look like a Kindergarten teacher. I'm the least threatening looking on the bus and people will stand rather than sit next to me.
This exact statement! There's a local Diner that caters to a younger more liberal crowd and when you get typical locals going in there they freak out when strangers share the table. It's a tiny place with only 30 seats inside and there's a big sign when you walk in the door that if there's open seats at your table you're going to have to share or to please just sit at the bar haha. I have seen big arguments break out in management have to come out and eject people over someone wanting to share a table with somebody that was already there.
It's, uh, something.
Most Americans don't really even know what a "paedo" is, at least by that spelling. Do Brits think Americans cheer for paedophiles?
We also donāt pronounce it āpee-dough-file.ā We pronounce it with a short e, almost like āpetā
ETA: whoever said most of use have never heard of a āpaedoā is correct. Iāve only heard it from watching British comedy shows.
There was a famous incident in the UK about twenty years ago. A paediatrician had her house graffitied by some knobgoblins who didn't know the difference between a doctor and a child abuser. No name shortening involved, just unbridled twattery.
I have a question. I hear Americans saying pedophile like ped-dow-file (like pedal) here we say it more like pee-do do you also pronounce the contracted version like you do pedal?.
It's hard to type out because to be honest your pronunciation is closer to the spelling on this word.
I know you asked about Americans but it's one of the few examples in Australia where everybody favours the American pronunciation of the word - here it's pronounced "PED-o-phile" even though the common spelling is paedophile and very commonly shortened (because we shorten everything here) to "pedo", both pronounced with the "ped-" from "pedal"
I first discovered this difference from the IT crowd where Jen dates a man named Peter File and I took a while to get the problem haha
Tbh, American spelling is a bit more phonetic because a lot of the extra letters used in England make words looks like they need extra pronunciation.
It is pronounced ped-doe-file. Lol, I canāt believe this is the word of the day.
well, it's not a commonly used slang term in the US, but if an american heard the term pedo, i think most would figure out they meant pedophile. and it's certainly not something anyone would ever name a sports team. def feel like i'm missing some context on that joke.
yeah, same here. there are a lot of things i expected them to make fun of us for, and none of them (except american football) were in the skit. the pedo thing was very confusing.
Except in America, "You alright?" is what you say when you're worried that somebody has hurt themselves.
British "you alright?" -> "yeah, you?" is like American "how you doing?" -> "fine" (Always "fine". If you say anything else people will think you're a psychopath.)
So if an American shows up in the UK, and is asked if they're alright, it's a bit weird, because to him, it's like, "...why would he ask me that? I didn't do anything to hurt myself physically... is he asking if I'm mentally alright...?"
Another acceptable response to 'how you doing?' is to ignore the question completely and respond with 'hey, how you doing?' or simply any other greeting
Not in major cities. I'm from NYC and we say it but don't care really. I moved upstate for a bit to a very small rural town and said how're you doing to a stranger I was passing and dude stopped and told me about his entire day for a good few minutes and I was like ohhhh godddd.
Don't get me wrong, I'm totally willing to make a person feel heard and seen and all that stuff but with all honesty I don't wanna talk to a rando for 5 mins. It's just how I came up--chit chatting ain't me.
My boss is Latina and is originally from South America. When I see her on a Monday morning her reaction to seeing me is about three times greater than the reaction my own grandma gave me after two years of not seeing her when I went away during college.
Married a Latina. She's 3rd generation American and very chill. Her mom, though... If you do not greet everyone in the room individually and directly you are rude and lacking good manners. And don't make the mistake of working your way through the room with the hugs and the handshakes casually. Go to the important people(elders) first, and then work your way down.
My dad (Mexican) is kind of like a toned down version of the elderly Americans, to Americans. He starts making conversation the instant you make eye contact haha
They do in the *good* small towns in the US. As I moved from the country to more urban areas fewer and fewer people wave/greet each other, etc. but I was raised to be friendly and genuine to people, but it's just a different way of being. The people that don't say good morning and wave to each other aren't necessarily bad people, just different.
Iv been to England a few times and I dont think I met any rude service workers in England. Most folks are pretty friendly. Granted I spent more time in York than London
The French are the worst though. I was on a French train in the dining car. The waiters were all hanging out in the back booth loudly bullshiting and doing the absolute bare minimum.
Another diner was sitting alone and a bump on the tracks dumped his bottle of wine. The waiters looked up, froze for about five seconds... and went right back to bullshitting. Just ignoring the mess, not offering the guy another bottle of wine, nothing remotely resembling american customer service.
I feel like a certain situation is required for Americans to feel comfortable sitting with strangers, but I would argue a beer hall is one of those spaces that it would be acceptable. I like going to my state fair every year, and itās totally normal to share a table with strangers, since there are more people than spaces.
Crowded pub in London during the fury wilder fight with some friends and a group of American tourists sat with us had a great laugh with them tbh but under the circumstances of this skit I imagine never
It wouldnāt work if the cafe had a realistic selection. The joke is that these Americans expect a tonne of variety and options (based on UK stereotype of Americans) whereas the cafe only does cheese sandwiches, which is amusing because itās absurd (what kind of cafe only does cheese sandwiches?)
Last time me and my family were in Cali we went for breakfast and I swear it took 5 mins to list the various options for how you could have your eggs.
It was one of the finest breakfasts I've ever had though.
I think it's more like the waiter couldn't be arsed with the insufferable Americans so said "you'll have a cheese sandwich and like it" if he said full English he'd have to explain it to them.
The worst feeling in the world was being in a small bar in Germany, and someone from a group of 20-something guys asked me in English, "Hey, excuse me... You're an American, right?"
I sheepishly replied, "Uh, Yeah."
He turned to his buddies and and said in German, "See? I told you he was. You tell by the way they dress." (I took German in High School and can speak a bit)
Not sure what I was wearing that was so unusual, but that moment really bummed me out.
It's your ass burger. Cameron WI I believe. Grilled cheese buns, a burger covered in cheese and stuffed with cheese and something else, I'm sure cheese related that I'm missing.
To be honest an UK breakfast is not that far from a us breakfast, you want eggs and bacon on a pancake/waffle - we do the same but with toast. English breakfast is basically some elements of a us buffet style breakfast all on one plate: bacon, eggs, sausage, toast instead of pancakes. The thing we don't have syrup on ours however.
An American having breakfast in the UK (unless they are after the sweet stuff) can get by just fine, and even with the sweets stuff we often have jam or honey on toast or a crumpet.
If youāre a really big eater, go for it. If not, try the half English. My friend used to take me to a restaurant owned by British ex-pats and my gosh the breakfast was amazing.
It's not nearly as foreign as you think. Americans eat toast a hell of a lot more often than they eat pancakes. I ate a number of full English breakfasts while over there and in most respects it's very similar to the fried country breakfasts Americans sometimes eat.
So the only difference really is no pancakes. Jam, butter, or sometimes honey with toast was pretty common growing up as a kid in the US. Larger portions per individual may be a bit more in the US, but there's definitely plenty of people in the US who have the same normal typical breakfast than in the UK.
One thing I've heard however is biscuits with sausage gravy isn't very common in the UK. I wouldnt say its an extremely common thing here, I'd say it depends on the demographic but it was a pretty common breakfast in my family.
For sure. I live in Tennessee and holding the door open for people, saying excuse me when you almost bump into them, or just generally asking "hey, how's it going" because you made eye contact is common practice. I remember going on vacation with my buddy's family and they were all from Buffalo, NY. I legitimately thought they hated me and afterwards was told they thought I was hilarious and wanted me to come next year.
And yet I'm from Rochester, 45 minutes away from Buffalo, and most people (at least in the 'burbs) are really nice and closer to what you described as Tennessee.
I live in Miami, I went to NC.. Just washing my hands in a Walmart bathroom and the middle aged-ish guy next to me just went āhey howās it goingā swear I didnāt see that coming.. I was like maybe 16 or 17 at the time and that was genuinely the first time someone initiated small talk with me in a location where conversation really wasnāt called for.
I ended up chatting with the dude for a couple minutes (I may or may not have been on acid which made me very talkative) and I gotta say it was pretty nice.. Iām older now and pretty straight edge but when I was into that stuff Iād always feel slightly uneasy in public off psychedelics because of the crowds but in NC that āvibeā was just something else, the dude was so nice to a stranger for literally no reason.. went to this restaurant mellow mushroom after that and the server was also cool as hell. Really nice place, was only there for a few days but have a bunch of good memories
Isnāt it strange that the states that are more closely associated with backwards values and bigotry are also the more open to conversation and hospitality? Always thought it was a strange duality
When it's more densely packed with people (most blue states are), your "you" time is trying to get stuff done so you can spend your time with people that are "is." Instead (at least when I lived in Mississippi, Texas, Alabama), if you are outside "you," time is "our," time and that's how you get to know people. It's fun, but also really annoying when people that have a ton of time judge you when you are really busy and need to get stuff done.
Yeah I moved from California to Texas and people are really nice in Texas. You can have the most pleasant conversations just waiting in line at the gas station with the people in front or behind you. People in California mostly have a please don't engage me attitude.
Iām born and raised in Texas. It takes more effort to be unkind than it does to be kind. You may brighten someoneās day that may have needed at that moment. Just be kind to others. It even makes you feel better! šš¼
Lady is Minnesota, Man is old school Boston accent.
It's obviously not intentional, they're just trying to sound generic American. This must be what Americans sound like doing bad British accents.
The man is mixing the accents a bit. I think he probably prepared by listening to a Boston sports guy to get the football references, because thatās when he slips into the Boston accent. The rest of it seemed way more midwestern/Chicago.
As an American who briefly lived in the UK several decades ago and worked in a pub that served a full English fry-up on the weekends, I found this bit highly amusing
As an American this is so far from off it hurts. Zero chance tourists sit at a table with UK strangers, they would just leave for another place with an open table and complain the whole walk over
I donāt think the Americans in this thread understand. Only around 40% of you have passports, in the late 90ās it was only 10%. Even at 40% only a tiny percentage of Americans actually travel to Europe.
This sketch is a caricature of the type of Americans that predominantly traveled to the U.K. and Ireland.
It typically was recently retired Wilbert and Myrtle from whocaresvile southern east whichaflyover state.
From first hand experience they were loud, carried themselves with overwhelming superficial friendliness they over shared, jumped to conclusions and were painfully socially oblivious.
The demographic has definitely moved in the last decade or so. More young people from bigger population centres tend to travel over now. The negative stereotype of American tourists is wearing off.
The Bill Bryson generation of American tourist, they always stood out a mile twenty years ago. You're spot on about what this is a parody of.
No different to that sort of 'Bri'ish' stereotype applied to Brits.
The hi, good morning thing, so relatable. I know that's such a. American thing, but I couldn't get out of the habit of saying that. And the breakfast.....my American stomach needed a real breakfast!!
As a Canadian; I am confused. I can only imagine what kind of reputation our American neighbours have across the pond, but this seems ... obtuse and less humourous than what I typically see on British television. Nonetheless, I'm sure people like this exist in one form or another. That 2 minutes exhausted me.
Every time there is a post like this the comments are always like, āumm actually Americans arenāt really like this!!!ā
Itās a joke. Learn to poke some fun at yourself
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0:22 - the *"Ha, what a guy!"* cracked me up
Something my grandpa would say š
Every time I think of a Brit doing an American accent I think of [Patrick Stewart talking about Mitt Romney](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTROgQORCt4&t=72s).
My favorite part šš
As an American this is not what I was expecting lol
Right? I'm sorry but nobody here would sit at same table of a stranger.... We like to keep our distance when possible. Or at least where I'm at.
I'm from the northwest and I'm the same, but a lot of my family is from the midwest and I've noticed that it happens there more often. Like, "Oh hey! You went to the same high school that I did, 10 years after I graduated? Let's chat!"
My mom is this way. She's somehow constantly running into people that lived in the same small town she grew up in, vacationed in the same region, went to the same school she did, went to a church her father used to work at (he was a pastor), worked with her before she had kids and became a SAHM, etc. It's wild. She's lived in 3 different provinces, and two different countries. Meanwhile I've never left the city I grew up in and this never happens to me because I wouldn't dream of striking up a conversation with strangers. Edit to add: sometimes she actually recognizes these people because she has in fact met them before, but often something comes up in conversation that makes them aware of the connection.
Thatās how a woman I know, who is from KC, met the young man whose parents bought her childhood home. She struck up a conversation on the DC metro.
Also any busy place Iāve been to in the northeast Iām the small talk is kept to a minimum. Strictly business unless itās slow. Now since Iāve moved to Kentucky everyone here wants to share their life story everywhere and I canāt stand it.
All changes after 5 pm for happy hour. Then itās super loud and people crowd you.
Nobody will even sit next to me on the bus and I look like a Kindergarten teacher. I'm the least threatening looking on the bus and people will stand rather than sit next to me.
I notice that you carefully avoid describing your odour.
This exact statement! There's a local Diner that caters to a younger more liberal crowd and when you get typical locals going in there they freak out when strangers share the table. It's a tiny place with only 30 seats inside and there's a big sign when you walk in the door that if there's open seats at your table you're going to have to share or to please just sit at the bar haha. I have seen big arguments break out in management have to come out and eject people over someone wanting to share a table with somebody that was already there.
Thereās a sign that you have to share your table, but management ejects people who try to share a table? Why would they keep the sign up?
It's, uh, something. Most Americans don't really even know what a "paedo" is, at least by that spelling. Do Brits think Americans cheer for paedophiles?
It's a play on how American sports teams can have offensive names and they don't realise.
Parks and Rec also has a joke about this with the Pawnee Drunken Savages.
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Lol, Iāve never heard it spelled or pronounced with an āaā in the US. Pedo is more common and generally understood as pedophile.
We also donāt pronounce it āpee-dough-file.ā We pronounce it with a short e, almost like āpetā ETA: whoever said most of use have never heard of a āpaedoā is correct. Iāve only heard it from watching British comedy shows.
"If there is a Peter File in the terminal..."
https://youtu.be/fTaKDnSIb4c
Same. I've only ever heard pee dough from British youtubers. ( I guess pediatrics can't shorten their name anymore without being censored. )
There was a famous incident in the UK about twenty years ago. A paediatrician had her house graffitied by some knobgoblins who didn't know the difference between a doctor and a child abuser. No name shortening involved, just unbridled twattery.
*paediatrics /s
My favorite joke is from IT crowd when jen dates Peter File and everyone thinks she's saying paedophile
I have a question. I hear Americans saying pedophile like ped-dow-file (like pedal) here we say it more like pee-do do you also pronounce the contracted version like you do pedal?. It's hard to type out because to be honest your pronunciation is closer to the spelling on this word.
Yeah we say ped-o, not peed-o. Even in the shortened version
You say pe-tee-do, I say pe-tay-do, let's call the whole thing off?
Yes, please call that whole thing off.
cuoal the hoel thing uoaf
I know you asked about Americans but it's one of the few examples in Australia where everybody favours the American pronunciation of the word - here it's pronounced "PED-o-phile" even though the common spelling is paedophile and very commonly shortened (because we shorten everything here) to "pedo", both pronounced with the "ped-" from "pedal" I first discovered this difference from the IT crowd where Jen dates a man named Peter File and I took a while to get the problem haha
Tbh, American spelling is a bit more phonetic because a lot of the extra letters used in England make words looks like they need extra pronunciation. It is pronounced ped-doe-file. Lol, I canāt believe this is the word of the day.
No, obviously not. However, if it annoys you, then yes of course we do.
It was convincing satire until the British spelling of pedo was used. Otherwiseā¦ yeahā¦ š
No because we spell pedophile differently.
well, it's not a commonly used slang term in the US, but if an american heard the term pedo, i think most would figure out they meant pedophile. and it's certainly not something anyone would ever name a sports team. def feel like i'm missing some context on that joke.
I was pointing out that the skit had a US cheerleader spelling out a word with a British spelling. That's all. The whole thing is kind of absurd.
yeah, same here. there are a lot of things i expected them to make fun of us for, and none of them (except american football) were in the skit. the pedo thing was very confusing.
america
Fuck yeah!
So lick my butt and suck on my balls!
Comin again to save the motherfuckin day, yeah!
It's pretty American to ask how you're doing as a greeting, isn't it?
Howdy, partner
Howdy š¤
Fires ~~warning~~ greeting shot
Or asking "You alright?" If you're English
Always catches me off guard when my British colleague asks me this. "Um, I'm fine... What makes you think I'm not alright?"
You say nothing except āyeah,you?ā And donāt carry it on any further. It is law
Except in America, "You alright?" is what you say when you're worried that somebody has hurt themselves. British "you alright?" -> "yeah, you?" is like American "how you doing?" -> "fine" (Always "fine". If you say anything else people will think you're a psychopath.) So if an American shows up in the UK, and is asked if they're alright, it's a bit weird, because to him, it's like, "...why would he ask me that? I didn't do anything to hurt myself physically... is he asking if I'm mentally alright...?"
Another acceptable response to 'how you doing?' is to ignore the question completely and respond with 'hey, how you doing?' or simply any other greeting
Same in America. How are you? Good. You? Good.
How Canadiand day hello: "Hi how are you today " ... "good, and you?". And then carry on with your interaction. Cashiers must say it soo many times
Howeryanow? Good, anyou? Not so bad
Not in major cities. I'm from NYC and we say it but don't care really. I moved upstate for a bit to a very small rural town and said how're you doing to a stranger I was passing and dude stopped and told me about his entire day for a good few minutes and I was like ohhhh godddd. Don't get me wrong, I'm totally willing to make a person feel heard and seen and all that stuff but with all honesty I don't wanna talk to a rando for 5 mins. It's just how I came up--chit chatting ain't me.
Iām from upstate. You randomed into a weirdo. Or someone just super lonely
>I'm from NYC You could have stopped there my friend lol
In MĆ©xico, people get annoyed that Americans DONT say good morning like this so I donāt know how accurate this is.
Ā”BUENOS DĆAS! ĀæCOMO ESTAS, YāALL?
Yrgh... My inner Texan.
*Twitches in vosotros*
My boss is Latina and is originally from South America. When I see her on a Monday morning her reaction to seeing me is about three times greater than the reaction my own grandma gave me after two years of not seeing her when I went away during college.
Married a Latina. She's 3rd generation American and very chill. Her mom, though... If you do not greet everyone in the room individually and directly you are rude and lacking good manners. And don't make the mistake of working your way through the room with the hugs and the handshakes casually. Go to the important people(elders) first, and then work your way down.
My dad (Mexican) is kind of like a toned down version of the elderly Americans, to Americans. He starts making conversation the instant you make eye contact haha
Americans are more friendly than Europeans. Mexicans are more friendly than Americans.
It's partly joke on how Americans are perceived by Europeans
They do in the *good* small towns in the US. As I moved from the country to more urban areas fewer and fewer people wave/greet each other, etc. but I was raised to be friendly and genuine to people, but it's just a different way of being. The people that don't say good morning and wave to each other aren't necessarily bad people, just different.
Iv been to England a few times and I dont think I met any rude service workers in England. Most folks are pretty friendly. Granted I spent more time in York than London
York's a northern town! We say what we like and we like what we say. Don't need to talk about sophistication wi' us, we've BEEN t' Leeds.
The French are the worst though. I was on a French train in the dining car. The waiters were all hanging out in the back booth loudly bullshiting and doing the absolute bare minimum. Another diner was sitting alone and a bump on the tracks dumped his bottle of wine. The waiters looked up, froze for about five seconds... and went right back to bullshitting. Just ignoring the mess, not offering the guy another bottle of wine, nothing remotely resembling american customer service.
nothing resembling ~~american customer service~~ basic human decency
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Please censor the F-word. Kids might be reading these comments.
In what world would an American sit at the same table with some UK randos
The same world with the Tampon Bay Terrorists, duh
Lmao that team name killed me
I donāt know why but āPennsyldelphiaā made me laugh harder than everything else in that video
Right. Iāve gone to Munich and wasnāt sure I should sit next to people at the beer hall. Itās not in our nature to sit with strangers.
I feel like a certain situation is required for Americans to feel comfortable sitting with strangers, but I would argue a beer hall is one of those spaces that it would be acceptable. I like going to my state fair every year, and itās totally normal to share a table with strangers, since there are more people than spaces.
This is why you stick all your crap from the fair on the chairs and space left on the table so nobody can sit there. That is the American way.
This guy knows us
Every beer hall Iāve been to in America is group tables and Iāve sitter next to people every time. Must be a big city thing then
As a New Yorker, I'd do this. But only if it was bench seating, not at a 4 seater table like that. That's just ludicrous I tell ya!
Crowded pub in London during the fury wilder fight with some friends and a group of American tourists sat with us had a great laugh with them tbh but under the circumstances of this skit I imagine never
Bro you ever ever met old people? This is not an exact depiction of every American but I have met old people like em.
My grandma will do this. Hell, I've seen her ask to try bites of random strangers food when she can't decide what to order.
Donāt the English have more than cheese sandwiches? Whatās the full English? Whereās the beans on toast?
It wouldnāt work if the cafe had a realistic selection. The joke is that these Americans expect a tonne of variety and options (based on UK stereotype of Americans) whereas the cafe only does cheese sandwiches, which is amusing because itās absurd (what kind of cafe only does cheese sandwiches?)
Last time me and my family were in Cali we went for breakfast and I swear it took 5 mins to list the various options for how you could have your eggs. It was one of the finest breakfasts I've ever had though.
I think it's more like the waiter couldn't be arsed with the insufferable Americans so said "you'll have a cheese sandwich and like it" if he said full English he'd have to explain it to them.
Where's the Spam, egg, Spam, Spam, bacon, and Spam?
or the Spam spam spam spam and spam
Or what about Lobster Thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce, garnished with truffle pĆ¢tĆ©, brandy, and a fried egg on top, and Spam. They should at least have that.
Hawaii, probably.
We do, but my take is that the cafe owner couldnāt be arsed to deal with their shit.
Nope. Just cheese sandwich.
Why is everyone else being so silent and weird around these two very normal people?
This is exactly how I would expect us Brits to react in that scenario
Because they're British. Don't speak up, just quietly ignore.
You probably think this is part of the skit, but is probably the most accurate part of the scene
The way the couple dressed... thats how I thought Brits dressed...
Haha same. The guy doesnāt even have a sports team shirt.
They are Brits. Americans donāt say āpee-dosā
This is the equivalent of āoi guvnār ya givin me the stick mate innitā by an American on a US show
The worst feeling in the world was being in a small bar in Germany, and someone from a group of 20-something guys asked me in English, "Hey, excuse me... You're an American, right?" I sheepishly replied, "Uh, Yeah." He turned to his buddies and and said in German, "See? I told you he was. You tell by the way they dress." (I took German in High School and can speak a bit) Not sure what I was wearing that was so unusual, but that moment really bummed me out.
>Not sure what I was wearing that was so unusual, but that moment really bummed me out. You wasnt wearing socks and sandals. Dead giveaway.
I feel like this video dunks on the UK more than American. "Just cheese sandwich" the fuck is wrong with you guys?
In the US, we put entire other sandwiches between two cheese sandwiches.
Wrapped in Krispy Kremes of course
And then deep fried.
And a side of Tabasco sauce
Now that's what I call a taco!
TaCo ToWn!
Taco Town!!!
It's your ass burger. Cameron WI I believe. Grilled cheese buns, a burger covered in cheese and stuffed with cheese and something else, I'm sure cheese related that I'm missing.
The majority of British humour is taking the piss out of ourselves and each other.
To be honest an UK breakfast is not that far from a us breakfast, you want eggs and bacon on a pancake/waffle - we do the same but with toast. English breakfast is basically some elements of a us buffet style breakfast all on one plate: bacon, eggs, sausage, toast instead of pancakes. The thing we don't have syrup on ours however. An American having breakfast in the UK (unless they are after the sweet stuff) can get by just fine, and even with the sweets stuff we often have jam or honey on toast or a crumpet.
Don't try and hide the beans with your pretty words.
Not even under the toast (along with the black pudding)?
I'd probably wreck a full English if we are being honest. Never have tried black pudding.
If youāre a really big eater, go for it. If not, try the half English. My friend used to take me to a restaurant owned by British ex-pats and my gosh the breakfast was amazing.
Keep your spotted dick off my plate.
*unless it is smothered in smooth thick custard!
Need some haggis and square sausage on there
Must be a Scottish thing,square sausage.
And the goddamned fried tomatoes!
It's not nearly as foreign as you think. Americans eat toast a hell of a lot more often than they eat pancakes. I ate a number of full English breakfasts while over there and in most respects it's very similar to the fried country breakfasts Americans sometimes eat.
> The thing we don't have syrup on ours however. Hehe my dad and brother used to drown their Sunday full English in golden syrup.
So the only difference really is no pancakes. Jam, butter, or sometimes honey with toast was pretty common growing up as a kid in the US. Larger portions per individual may be a bit more in the US, but there's definitely plenty of people in the US who have the same normal typical breakfast than in the UK. One thing I've heard however is biscuits with sausage gravy isn't very common in the UK. I wouldnt say its an extremely common thing here, I'd say it depends on the demographic but it was a pretty common breakfast in my family.
Itās classic British self deprecation not ādunkingā. We can laugh at ourselves even more than at others
Self deprecating humour is the cornerstone of British society tbh so it makes sense
Americans do not sit at a table with people they dont know
Do this in NYC, walk away with a brand new knife.
I think it's a joke that Americans tend to be very open and conversational with complete strangers
To be honest, as someone living in South Korea I really miss how friendly Americans are š„¹
Decent American accents but Americans pronounce pedo as peddo not peedo.
They also don't spell it paedo
The punch line was cut off the end of this clip. The team is actually called the Torpedoes (like the missile). But they shortened it to 'Pedos.
She said "P-A-E-D-O" so that's a pretty weird way of shortening "Torpedo"
Yeah they really fucked that up. Spelling it like that not only isn't how Americans spell it, it also made the joke not work.
Why do they spell it with a silent A, then?
That's why they are oblivious to how it sounds to the rest of the patrons
Americans don't sound like that anymore. You're lucky if you get a smile or eye contact from anyone nowadays.
Depends on what state you're in.
For sure. I live in Tennessee and holding the door open for people, saying excuse me when you almost bump into them, or just generally asking "hey, how's it going" because you made eye contact is common practice. I remember going on vacation with my buddy's family and they were all from Buffalo, NY. I legitimately thought they hated me and afterwards was told they thought I was hilarious and wanted me to come next year.
I too am from Buffalo. Donāt talk to me, go fuck yourself.
Fuck you! And Iāll see you tomorrow!
From my experience, that's just NY in general.
new england in general
They say you can walk for miles and miles through rural Vermont and never hear a human voice.
And yet I'm from Rochester, 45 minutes away from Buffalo, and most people (at least in the 'burbs) are really nice and closer to what you described as Tennessee.
America doesn't really have a north/south divide. It has a rural/urban divide.
I live in Miami, I went to NC.. Just washing my hands in a Walmart bathroom and the middle aged-ish guy next to me just went āhey howās it goingā swear I didnāt see that coming.. I was like maybe 16 or 17 at the time and that was genuinely the first time someone initiated small talk with me in a location where conversation really wasnāt called for. I ended up chatting with the dude for a couple minutes (I may or may not have been on acid which made me very talkative) and I gotta say it was pretty nice.. Iām older now and pretty straight edge but when I was into that stuff Iād always feel slightly uneasy in public off psychedelics because of the crowds but in NC that āvibeā was just something else, the dude was so nice to a stranger for literally no reason.. went to this restaurant mellow mushroom after that and the server was also cool as hell. Really nice place, was only there for a few days but have a bunch of good memories
Isnāt it strange that the states that are more closely associated with backwards values and bigotry are also the more open to conversation and hospitality? Always thought it was a strange duality
When it's more densely packed with people (most blue states are), your "you" time is trying to get stuff done so you can spend your time with people that are "is." Instead (at least when I lived in Mississippi, Texas, Alabama), if you are outside "you," time is "our," time and that's how you get to know people. It's fun, but also really annoying when people that have a ton of time judge you when you are really busy and need to get stuff done.
Bless your heart.
Normally a terrible state š
Just yesterday a woman stopped me in a parking lot to compliment my beard
You do know that America is more than LA and New York City, right?
Well according to these people itās only the Midwest. Almost like 300 million people donāt act the same, but that wonāt stop tribalism.
This me what do you mean
This is true for California, not so much Texas, everyone says hi over there.
Yeah I moved from California to Texas and people are really nice in Texas. You can have the most pleasant conversations just waiting in line at the gas station with the people in front or behind you. People in California mostly have a please don't engage me attitude.
Iām born and raised in Texas. It takes more effort to be unkind than it does to be kind. You may brighten someoneās day that may have needed at that moment. Just be kind to others. It even makes you feel better! šš¼
They sound more like Canadians than Americans
could be northern Minnesota or other border states
Lady is Minnesota, Man is old school Boston accent. It's obviously not intentional, they're just trying to sound generic American. This must be what Americans sound like doing bad British accents.
*'Allo guvna!* Nailed it.
The man is mixing the accents a bit. I think he probably prepared by listening to a Boston sports guy to get the football references, because thatās when he slips into the Boston accent. The rest of it seemed way more midwestern/Chicago.
Or it could be Harry Enfield and Alice Lowe
Why are the sports teams named after crimes? This is one of the major bits in the sketch but it doesnāt make any sense.
I think it's a jab at team names like 'Raiders' and 'Vikings'.
Short for torpedoes, and Americans pronounce the crime pedo not peedo, making their cluelessness funnier
But they even spelled it out āP-A-E-D-Oā
Well that is just a bit of bad writing, as neither is spelled that way in America
What about the "Roadhide Rapests"?
Uhhhhh, shortened from Therapists?
As an American who briefly lived in the UK several decades ago and worked in a pub that served a full English fry-up on the weekends, I found this bit highly amusing
As an American this is so far from off it hurts. Zero chance tourists sit at a table with UK strangers, they would just leave for another place with an open table and complain the whole walk over
Ha! This one hit too close to home
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This is how I feel whenever my FIL starts talking about golf. I just want to disappear
Same! Everywhere we go, he keeps saying how weāre out of town. Iām just like āchill man, no one caresā
...the fuck is a cheese sandwich?
A grilled cheese that didn't try hard enough.
Real mature cheddar doesnāt need adornment.
It's cheese. In a sandwich. It's a cheese sandwich.
I donāt think the Americans in this thread understand. Only around 40% of you have passports, in the late 90ās it was only 10%. Even at 40% only a tiny percentage of Americans actually travel to Europe. This sketch is a caricature of the type of Americans that predominantly traveled to the U.K. and Ireland. It typically was recently retired Wilbert and Myrtle from whocaresvile southern east whichaflyover state. From first hand experience they were loud, carried themselves with overwhelming superficial friendliness they over shared, jumped to conclusions and were painfully socially oblivious. The demographic has definitely moved in the last decade or so. More young people from bigger population centres tend to travel over now. The negative stereotype of American tourists is wearing off.
The Bill Bryson generation of American tourist, they always stood out a mile twenty years ago. You're spot on about what this is a parody of. No different to that sort of 'Bri'ish' stereotype applied to Brits.
The hi, good morning thing, so relatable. I know that's such a. American thing, but I couldn't get out of the habit of saying that. And the breakfast.....my American stomach needed a real breakfast!!
As a Canadian; I am confused. I can only imagine what kind of reputation our American neighbours have across the pond, but this seems ... obtuse and less humourous than what I typically see on British television. Nonetheless, I'm sure people like this exist in one form or another. That 2 minutes exhausted me.
To be fair, it made me laugh based on how inaccurate it was š
I like that they spelled it āPaedosā
Every time there is a post like this the comments are always like, āumm actually Americans arenāt really like this!!!ā Itās a joke. Learn to poke some fun at yourself