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Posted April 10, 2015
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Darvin: There's a bit of a cultural gag reflex here, and the term "American" is a bit like a used handkerchief; we don't really want it. I'm sure it's really sentimental to its owners, but... you guys can keep it.
Replace "we don't really want it" with "we really don't want it". Many Canadians are offended (or as offended as Canadians get, which is to say slightly annoyed) by being called American now that the word has become synonymous with the US.

Sorry if I hurt anyone's feelings expressing our offense.
Posted April 10, 2015
wannabe Canadians?
Posted April 10, 2015
Fatties!
Chubby, chubby, fatties!

and traitors to the British Empire, of course!
Posted April 10, 2015
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Fever_Discordia: Fatties!
Chubby, chubby, fatties!

and traitors to the British Empire, of course!
yeah yeah yeah
Nice Teeth! :P
Posted April 10, 2015
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Potzato: wow that's deep
If you can't see adele rolling in it, it ain't deep enough. :P
Posted April 10, 2015
Mexican
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Fever_Discordia: Fatties!
Chubby, chubby, fatties!

and traitors to the British Empire, of course!
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tinyE: yeah yeah yeah
Nice Teeth! :P
At least we don't have to book two tickets to travel! :P
Post edited April 10, 2015 by Cavenagh
Posted April 10, 2015
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Fever_Discordia: Fatties!
Chubby, chubby, fatties!

and traitors to the British Empire, of course!
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tinyE: yeah yeah yeah
Nice Teeth! :P
Don't wanna be that kinda agent provocateur, but this always makes me laugh AND this one too!
:P
Posted April 10, 2015
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Cavenagh: Mexican
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tinyE: yeah yeah yeah
Nice Teeth! :P
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Cavenagh: At least we don't have to book two tickets to travel! :P
I actually can't counter this one. :P I myself am skinny as a rail but I never leave my room so I don't count.
Posted April 10, 2015
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Cavenagh: Mexican

At least we don't have to book two tickets to travel! :P
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tinyE: I actually can't counter this one. :P I myself am skinny as a rail but I never leave my room so I don't count.
It's all good fun
Posted April 10, 2015
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tinyE: I actually can't counter this one. :P I myself am skinny as a rail but I never leave my room so I don't count.
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Cavenagh: It's all good fun
Yeah but in this case it's sadly true. :P
Posted April 10, 2015
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tinyE: I myself am skinny as a rail
Do you watch 1970s crime dramas and think, "I could totally do those pants?"

Do you describe yourself in online dating profiles as built like a Voltron pilot?
Posted April 10, 2015
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Chandoraa: You win the internet (anyone that's not chuckling by now should probably look up "merkin" in a dictionary).
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tinyE: I'm not laughing because:
1) He actually said that.
2) It wasn't even remotely the dumbest thing he ever said.
and 3) That son of a bitch got reelected!
yeah, but he also gave us this (just a shame the original wasn't saved in full)

Merkin
Post edited April 10, 2015 by IanM
Posted April 10, 2015
I've always felt like I was on a personal crusade to change how people from the US call themselves "americans." It is so friggen arrogant and closeminded and egocentric, just like most people from the US. For many many many years, I always confronted people using it, now I pick who I confront about it because most people don't even have the intellectual capacity to understand why it is an issue even after I explain it to them.

I think using personal states would make sense rather than ever saying the country. The US is sooo diverse and large, just say "New Yorker, Californian, Floridian, etc.
Posted April 10, 2015
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budejovice: For better or worse, at least inside the US and probably over much of the world excepting, perhaps, the rest of the Western Hemisphere, the best word is "American." Common usage has given us this and common usage always wins out, no matter the legitimate gripes.
Language is not static, so what today is common usage can be archaic tomorrow. For a simple example, a boner meant something else in the days of yore:

http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/136/

p.s. Over here we call them gringos.
Post edited April 10, 2015 by mangamuscle
Posted April 10, 2015
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drealmer7: I've always felt like I was on a personal crusade to change how people from the US call themselves "americans." It is so friggen arrogant and closeminded and egocentric, just like most people from the US. For many many many years, I always confronted people using it, now I pick who I confront about it because most people don't even have the intellectual capacity to understand why it is an issue even after I explain it to them.

I think using personal states would make sense rather than ever saying the country. The US is sooo diverse and large, just say "New Yorker, Californian, Floridian, etc.
I draw the line at "Native Californian" only because most of the people who use that term think everything east of the Rockies looks like this.

And that isn't a joke; god knows I wish is were. :P
I haven't seen my nephew in 10 years because his mother in California doesn't feel safe taking him out of state.
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