In honor ofnit nearly being Independence Day, wibu to tell you

[PratStick]

That Bleu is not a common American name?

That we do have required biology lessons. (Obviously)

Baby showers were never meant to be massive affairs with enterence fees and that I never heard of such a thing before MN. Your mate threw a party, invited your other friends, you ate brownies and were given diapers artfully formed in to a cake.

We also didn't invent "destination weddings" if we did had done, no one would go as we get far less time off than you do. It's also the reason many Americans don't have a passport, nothing to with America being too awesome to bother leaving.

Only a third of us have guns.

I was never taught creationalism in school. It is illegal to mix church and state and we I never took any form of RE. We do not have state funded religious schools. Your nearest school will be a non religious state school.

Any Americans have anything else to add?

where you can buy supposedly authentic food
Is that true of the American stuff in Lidl?
I find the Spanish stuff to be authentic.

I think they probably misunderstood that in some areas soda is catch all instead of 'fizzy drink'. You'd still differentiate though!

No and I've only ever found "peanut flips" in Germany but apparently we love this shit.

Peanut=American or something

On the face of it we speak the same language and have quite similar cultures. We both get a lot of ideas about each other's culture from our shared visual media which are often exaggerate our differences.Is it not that the case of the differences being more apparent and causing discomfort. I would have thought that we probably have a a roughly equal percentage of bigots and kind accepting people and both favour our own cultures which is hardly surprising.

The peanut butter is horrendous and the maple syrup is actually a worse grade quality but more expensive than what they sel at the rest of times but they've put an American flag on it iirc

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/baby_names/a2956060-How-would-you-pronounce-Bleu

Are you just bitter and angry because of who you have as POTUS

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/baby_names/2969110-Does-Dashiell-sound-American-to-you

Yes very reasonable laptoplapdog, it can get frustrating though as being admittedly a privileged American unless you live in London you don't tend to get 'pockets' of Americans like you might wish other immigrants. It can get kinky and annoying when people use the word American like it's shorthand for gun toting twat

We met some lovely Americans whilst we were on honeymoon. One of them was a pilot (so obviously super clever to do that kind of job)

My husband told them our navy aircraft carriers actually fly. They believed him. They even apologised for "lacking in basic knowledge". Dh was a bit of a meanie but they took the joke in their stride and were lovely.

However later than night before we were chatting with an Australian couple and a different American couple came over to us. The husband said he was going to kick the shit out of them because they were "unnatural fucking faggots". I had never seen homophobia so vicious before in my life. And they kept banging on about it being "not Christian". Pretty sure threatening and swearing at people is not "very Christian". Thankfully dh and another lovely guy (from Maryland) escorted them to the security who ejected the horrible people from the hotel.

My point being is I think it's easy to categorise everybody based on their nationality but with a country as large as America I think you're going to get a lot more scale for divisive and extreme experiences.

Though Canadians are pretty accurate and will queue for three hours for Timbits. I'm half Canadian so I'm allowed to say that lol.

With other immigrants! And it gets kind of annoying.

mygast mostly in livingnunder Theresa May and I admit she and the DUP haven't improved my mood as of late

I've never had a timbit, but are they really better than Krispy Kreme?

I just came on to tell you 'honour' is spelt with a 'u'.

Just kidding!

@PratStick

Yes.

Timbits are shit and like any other crap donut

It is depressing how Canadians have outsourced their national identity to a corporation headquartered in the us, as though chugging double doubles is an act of patriotism or something

150 years on stolen indigenous land, though, maybe it's the best they could do

I just came on to tell you 'honour' is spelt with a 'u'

I had to fight my phone's autocorrect in order to spell it the 'real' right way.

"Though Canadians are pretty accurate and will queue for three hours for Timbits."

Accurate about what?

Is it strictly accurate to assert that there is legally mandated separation of church and state in schools in the US? Don't you pledge allegiance to the flag? And doesn't that include the line "one nation, under God"?

Not really secular then?

They tend to be polite, like ice hockey and like Tim Hortons. This at least this describes 98% of my family members

Though my mum absolutely detested Maple Syrup... so maybe not.

150 years on stolen indigenous land, though, maybe it's the best they could do

And America?

Haha @AnnieOH1 I assumed that that's why I clarified. She definitely thought she could just order soda in a restaurant.

In fairness that was before a holiday she had planned there and i like to think the first time she tried it they asked her what exactly she wanted to drink and now she must know better it was just the most silly example I'd heard

Nanoon, the original pledge didn't contain that line, it was altered to annoy communists it's weird but a sort of left over. I'm surprised it hasn't been dealt with since then. Actually I'm not sure if children still do the pledge. We did but I'm old.

^They tend to be polite, like ice hockey and like Tim Hortons. This at least this describes 98% of my family member*

This does describe all the Canadians I have met though I would t like to generalise considering the thread

and your money, too Prat: In God We Trust.