I want to hear what insults you have heard others using to refer to americans

  • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Ooooh we HATE it when you call us “pretty boy whom I long to hug and kiss” just so fucking much even typing it out has got me quaking with rage

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    What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual.

    What do you call someone who speaks two languages? Bilingual.

    What do you call someone who speaks one language? An American.

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      What do having sexl in a canoe and American beer have in common? It’s fucking close to water

      Football is a pussy sport, pads are for pussies.

      NASCAR is the special Olympics if racing

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        What do having sexl in a canoe and American beer have in common? It’s fucking close to water

        Hey now. Those Clydesdales are doing their absolute best to piss out Bud.

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        It’s Cockney rhyming slang. If you want to come up with a slang term for a something, you take something that rhymes “yank → septic tank” and then cut it down “septic tank → seppo”

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          Jeebus, that’s a lot of work. “Americans are loud and smell bad” seems so much easier.

          Maybe Americans are lazy time efficient with their communications. What a zinger.

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            Part of the point (the whole point?) of rhyming slang is that it’s opaque and convoluted. That’s what makes it fun. It also makes it a bit of a shibboleth - you only understand it if you’re part of the culture.

            If you’re eating with an Australian and they ask you to “pass the dead horse”, it means they think you’re Aussie enough to know what it means. Or they know that you won’t know what it means and they’re fucking with you intentionally.

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    Anti American slurs always amuses me. Like theres some dude out in bumfuckegypt that can’t stand the fact that I exist lol. All I’ve literally done is eat burgers and crank my hog for the last 30 years 🙆‍♂️

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    The term “Yank” is incredibly loaded with all kinds of stereotypes the world over, but it has a very different meaning in the US.

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    There are a over 48 million African Americans, so does anyone know some insulting words or phrases people use against them?

    Then we can move on to the > 60 million Latinos (there will be some overlap).

    It’s important to recognize US diversity when dreaming up insults.

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      Or you know, you could not focus on race, and just insult Americans as a group … oh wait, is that your insult?

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    “I object to the term ‘loud-mouth American’. It’s a tautology.” --Magda S. in Fast Forward (maybe?)

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
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    Yankee, Yank, Yanqui

    Seppo I guess but that doesn’t hit as hard because silly

    “Freedumb” is another one that’s too silly to really be offensive