shroomhead77
Expert Member
We should have bidets here!!!!! Most of my friends who've never used one think they are "gross"....
um, not using one is grosser! And it would save $$$ over so many baby wipes!
Yeah I know the other day a guy asked what my background was cuz he thought I looked Asian
I told him my parents were from El Salvador and, he says where in Mexico is that
All I could think to myself was face palm moment
El Salvador? Can you make pupusa? I can only get it twice a year here :frown1:. It's my favourite latin snack.
use a bidet. (or even know how to use one)
Most American think that all hispanics come from Mexico
Everyone I know has taken a train. That includes all of my HS classmates, and I grew up in the most rural of rural settings. I don't know how you manage to know so few people who have taken a train.
Again, i grew up in quite the idyllic setting - EVERYONE drove a manual transmission. ... But then, most city dwellers have ridden on a train... so... you have me colored confused.
you got me on this one. I've tried to find marmite - nobody seems to sell it. Hmmm... my friend from the UK is coming to visit in 2 months. I'll ask him to bring some.
True. Our country is stuck in the dark ages, using the Imperial system. I, however, am a scientist - SI all the way baby! Hopefully one day we'll crawl into the 21st century and prove you wrong.
why would you assume this? Circumcision is becoming less common, and "never" is a very long time.
They're not that hard to figure out.... Are you implying that Americans are stupid?
I don't know if you've been to an Arbys, or McDonalds, or Burger King, or Pizza Hut in the states, but MANY of them have long fixed position tables that are meant to be shared by multiple parties. Almost all food courts have the same thing.
I'm not sure about this one, because, again, I grew up in the sticks and skinny dipping was a rite of passage. I don't know how this works in the cities.
Have you never heard of Greyhound??? It's a big inter-city bus service. Quite popular.
And then there's, I dunno, the VAST MAJORITY of city dwellers who ride busses to get to work so they don't have to pay outrageous monthly lot fees to park their cars at work. What parts of America have you traveled in???
I think people refer to the united states as "the" america because the people who live there are referred to as Americans. I mean really, what else do you call them since they came from all over the world?
Perhaps in PC context, Americans should refer to everyone who lives in the American continents and related countries, but this is obviously not the case.
Most American think that all hispanics come from Mexico
That may be somewhat true from Texas westward, but down here in Florida there are far fewer Mexicans than Cubans, Puerto Ricans (who have been American for almost 100 years*), Dominicans, Colombians, Venezuelans and others. And when I mention I'm hispanic, people tell me not to be ridiculous since my dad is from Spain and a lot of my family is blond. Hispanics are brown people from the Americas.
I would agree that most Americans have no idea that different hispanic groups sound as different to each other as Aussies, Americans and Brits. We tend to look at Latinos monolithically. (Hmmm, there's two more: most Americans can't tell a Kiwi from an Aussie, or even a Canadian from an American. I think more Canadians can spot an American accent. And then there's the many Americans who honestly can't differentiate between Received Pronunciation and an Australian accent.)
* I find it interesting to think that Puerto Ricans became American citizens while Nicholas II was still tsar of Russia. That's a long time ago.
With the exception of Celsius conversion, which I can only do approximately, I've ticked off all those things. :wink:
The old "double it and add 30" usually get close enough. For temperature. It doesn't work for converting cock inches to cock centimeters.
As I travel, and when I read boards like LPSG, I've subconsciously been making a list of how Americans differ from contemporaries in other countries/cultures. Some things that seem quite normal in the UK, like taking a train to work or see friends, are not commonplace in the US. Here are some off the top of my head that may or may not be true, but seem like it to me.
Most Americans will never in their lives...
take a train. (only about 20% of people I know have)
drive a manual transmission car. (or maybe even be in one)
taste marmite or vegemite.
know how to tell temperature in celsius.
touch an uncut cock.
use a bidet. (or even know how to use one)
share a table at a restaurant with strangers.
get nude with friends. (skinnydipping, showers or just horsing around -- particularly today's youth)
I'm not even sure a majority of Americans will have ridden an intercity bus, or any bus, other than a school bus.
Can you think of more things that are commonplace outside the US but that most Americans would not have experienced? Are there some things that people in your culture mostly have not experienced, that most Americans have/do?
Having switched from the Imperial system to the metric system in grade school, so I consider myself bi that way. :biggrin1:
Canada is still so weird that way. Recipes are still imperial, distances are metric, weight & height are imperial, temperature is metric....it's just one big mix for me. Might be different for younger people, but for people like me - it's a big mess.