Popular Post Jingthing Posted January 13, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 13, 2023 (edited) This list is funny. Non-Americans Sharing Signs Someone Is From The US (buzzfeed.com) I'm definitely less American than when I moved to Thailand but I think it's true, almost all Americans are doing some things that are obvious tells. I hear this all the time. Non-Americans asking Americans abroad where they are from and they answer with the state. It's so cringe. Like if someone says California (I used to do that!) it's usually them trying to communicate that they're blue not red as if the foreigner cares about that code. What would you add to the list? Being fat obviously but that isn't specific to Americans. I do have a memory of my first trip abroad in Austria with two friends (as teens). We were on this tour of some kind of cave ride and the guy helping us looked at us and said he would have never guessed we were Americans. What a compliment! Edited January 13, 2023 by Jingthing 2 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post In the jungle Posted January 14, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 14, 2023 Saying London, England or Paris, France as opposed to just London and Paris. 2 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macahoom Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 Being unable to differentiate between the words then and than. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KhunLA Posted January 14, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 14, 2023 (edited) Speaking Spanish as most Americans can. Saying you're American, is as ignorant as stating you are European. If asked, I say Prachuap. Edited January 14, 2023 by KhunLA 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simon43 Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 Addressing me as 'sir' ???? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VocalNeal Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 56 minutes ago, macahoom said: Being unable to differentiate between the words then and than. or bring and take 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Willy Wombat Posted January 14, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 14, 2023 Loud. whenever travelling anywhere in the world you can always hear them. Its like they’re announcing that they are American to everybody. 5 2 10 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Gsxrnz Posted January 14, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 14, 2023 The biggest giveaway is their dress sense (lack of). 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Gsxrnz Posted January 14, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 14, 2023 5 minutes ago, VocalNeal said: or bring and take Or your and you're. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post VocalNeal Posted January 14, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 14, 2023 ^ Q.E.D 2 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VocalNeal Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 (edited) 6 minutes ago, BananaStrong said: The entire world is obsessed with America, While many Americans seem obsessed with Britain/Britishness. (Another trait????) Edited January 14, 2023 by VocalNeal 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Gsxrnz Posted January 14, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 14, 2023 4 minutes ago, VocalNeal said: ^ Q.E.D Every American is now Googling Q,E.D. 1 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BananaStrong Posted January 14, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 14, 2023 3 minutes ago, VocalNeal said: While many Americans seem obsessed with Britain/Britishness. (Another trait????) Over 50 years, NEVER met ONE. Not ONE. NOT EVEN ONE. I'd love to tell you I met one. nope. never did. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrJack54 Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 Constitutional Rights. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madgee Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 7 minutes ago, BananaStrong said: Over 50 years, NEVER met ONE. Not ONE. NOT EVEN ONE. I'd love to tell you I met one. nope. never did. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KhunLA Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 10 minutes ago, Gsxrnz said: Every American is now Googling Q,E.D. Only if you didn't have 2 yrs of Latin ... ???? Using QED speaks more than simply using words ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post worgeordie Posted January 14, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 14, 2023 I was at my local hospital last week ,receiving my 5 th Covid vax ,there was another Farang there ,when it was his turn , he asked what vaccine is this, the nurse replied it's Pfizer ,he replied I want Moderna , I am American .... regards worgeordie 1 1 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post cjinchiangrai Posted January 14, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 14, 2023 26 minutes ago, Gsxrnz said: The biggest giveaway is their dress sense (lack of). That has to be the Europeans wearing socks with sandals. There is no shortage of trashy Americans too though. 3 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Dan747 Posted January 14, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 14, 2023 It's kind of hard to admit your American with Biden as President. I was at Central BKK and a German ask me where I was from, told him America, he told me Biden is an "EMBARRASSMENT!" Says it all. 1 1 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Lee65 Posted January 14, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 14, 2023 Among intelligent Americans, a kind of sheepish, apologetic air. Among 'most all Americans 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post VocalNeal Posted January 14, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 14, 2023 24 minutes ago, BananaStrong said: Over 50 years, NEVER met ONE. Not ONE. NOT EVEN ONE. I'd love to tell you I met one. nope. never did. All over YouTube. Ex-marine reacts to..., ex-(whatever) reacts to....??? reacts to...???? Then there's the Brexit thing. They'd love that to fail... BTW. Only Brian Blessed can text in CAPS. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingthing Posted January 14, 2023 Author Share Posted January 14, 2023 22 minutes ago, BananaStrong said: Over 50 years, NEVER met ONE. Not ONE. NOT EVEN ONE. I'd love to tell you I met one. nope. never did. Anglophilia is definitely a thing. One of my first jobs was under a British expat in San Francisco. He said he hired me because I said my favorite author was Evelyn Waugh. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jingthing Posted January 14, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 14, 2023 7 minutes ago, Dan747 said: It's kind of hard to admit your American with Biden as President. I was at Central BKK and a German ask me where I was from, told him America, he told me Biden is an "EMBARRASSMENT!" Says it all. Hard to believe. 8 4 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GammaGlobulin Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 To JT, I very much respect you. However, 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Woof999 Posted January 14, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 14, 2023 Saying "could care less" instead of "couldn't care less" - this one just makes me laugh as it means the speak doesn't understand their own language. Saying "anyways" instead of "anyway". Just sounds... wrong, to me at least. 7 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GammaGlobulin Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 What does it matter where you are from when you really cannot remember it anymore? Wherever you once were, and wherever you might happen to be now.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingthing Posted January 14, 2023 Author Share Posted January 14, 2023 13 minutes ago, Woof999 said: Saying "could care less" instead of "couldn't care less" - this one just makes me laugh as it means the speak doesn't understand their own language. Saying "anyways" instead of "anyway". Just sounds... wrong, to me at least. Anyways is atrocious but I defend could care less. It's not about logic. It just flows better. Being terminally literal is unhealthy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GammaGlobulin Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 19 minutes ago, GinBoy2 said: Not quite sure I understand this rant. But, but who doesn't care about their home country first? I have lived as a guest in several countries throughout my life, but the US was and is always my home, and I'd kick all of those guest countries to the curb if it came to it. I think most folks would have the same feeling for their home country, well maybe not North Koreans! Not me. I do not care about my home country, first. Nationalism is not first on my list. I would rather care about cowgirls...in the sand....than nationalism... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KannikaP Posted January 14, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 14, 2023 1 hour ago, Gsxrnz said: Or your and you're. Hey, it's not only the Yanks who do this one. So many posters on here do it. And as for using 'of' instead of 'have'....don't get me going. 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woof999 Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 Just now, Jingthing said: Anyways is atrocious but I defend could care less. It's not about logic. It just flows better. Being terminally literal is unhealthy. I have to agree with the last sentence. Reading back my own post I wrote "speak" which wasn't right either. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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