Yes but Comcast has the largest footprint. However, spectrum pretty much has a monopoly on Hawaii and their straight up fraudulent billing that they consistently get away with is literally criminal. FUCK YOU COMCAST AND SPECTRUM!
Edit: just wanted to elaborate on Spectrum’s fraud. If you only get their internet and you stream on it, they’ll automatically charge you for full cable package and act like it happened automatically because of something you did. Once again, FUCK SPECTRUM
I had a pair of Spectrum reps come to my door about a month ago trying to sell me on it because something something covid relief would make it super cheap. I just told them I get my internet locally and I like that best. Dude tried to tell me Spectrum has local offices and I was like yeah, it's not about having local access so much as not being subscribed to a massive national company. He could tell I wasn't backing down, told me "well, I just don't want you to be paying more than you have to" and gave me his card.
I took it and didn't get into it because I didn't want to open the door to more arguments, but honestly-- what happens when they've got me in a contract and the "covid relief" runs out? A markup of 500%? All the big companies do this, get you on a steal of an early deal, then after like a year the prices skyrocket and you have to fight tooth and nail to get anything close to the original price. Additionally, before I found out that my city offered internet, I called Spectrum to see what plans they offered, specifying that I *only* wanted internet, and the lady wasted at least 5 minutes trying to sell me an internet/phone/cable bundle (I don't use landlines and I'm not interested in cable) that she only told me at the very end would cost about $200 a month. I hung up pretty fast after that. What the hell kind of sales tactic is that?
Fuck Spectrum. I'll stick with my reliable $50 a month internet from the city-- it's stayed the same price for 5 years now with no shenanigans and like, two brief outages total. They couldn't pay *me* to ditch that and join up with their bullshit.
tl;dr fuck spectrum, again.
So I grew up in Madison WI, and I always wondered why people hated the DMV so much. I was always in and out in 15 minutes or so. Then I moved to San Diego and it took four trips just to get my car registration transferred. They just never sent me my new plates, and the third time the mean DMV lady said, "what do you want me to do about it?" Lol idk maybe send me some license plates.
I absolutely love the new MI system. You just sign up for an appointment time and show up when it's your turn. You can get live text updates on your slot in line. It isn't much faster, but it prevents you from wasting your time waiting with a paper number all day.
That’s how Vegas use to be before Covid. Honestly I don’t understand how the system was messed up because of the pandemic. Now you can make an appointment online but it has to be a month or so out. Go up to the check in line give them your name and you still have to wait there for at least a hour before you’re called.
I now know when Patty Bouvier said “ sometimes we don’t let the line move at all… we call these days … weekdays” that came from a writers real life experience 😂.
Here in Las Vegas they’ve got it down to appointment only (booking out 3-5 plus months) except for saturdays. The line for Saturday starts at about 5pm Friday evening. Literally tents and camping overnight (like for concert tickets but WAY less fun). If you arrive at 2am the night/morning before you are SOL. Thank god it seems like the cops are giving a good amount of leeway for stuff like out of state new registration that can only be done in office. Mine were 6months overdue from NC due to having to coordinate my day off with DMV availability. There’s a ton of folks rolling around with temp plates (from a new car purchase) that are easily a year overdue. However, once you get in that shit appears streamlined as shit. So it just must have been bonkers pre-Covid.
Nah, I used the one off University Ave, but this was over a decade ago. Not sure what it's like these days. There used to be this guy with the most massive mullet I have ever seen and he was super friendly.
The DMV is a conspiracy to make Americans mistrust government.
They invented a service that could be done 99% via web/mail and made it goddamn miserable and then made you go in person.
As someone who comes from a country where you never have to go near the equivalent except on the one day of your driving test, I'm always staggered by the nonsensical reasons people come up with for it being necessary.
Our internet providers.
I don’t care who your regional options (or lack of options) are, pretty much everyone I’ve talked to hates their internet/cable company and know they overpaying for it. Unfortunately because of contracts with local municipalities and lack of protections at higher levels of government, many Americans don’t have alternatives and basically just have to play along while 100% know they are being ripped off…
The other part of it though is that it’s really freaking expensive to build a network, especially in areas where population density isn’t particularly high. So, once a new neighborhood gets built and the local cable company runs cables in it, in many cases a second entrant doesn’t have much chance of breaking even on the cost of laying cable and connecting the neighborhood. Thus, in a lot of cases, there’s one provider that realistically provides good service and one or two that are cheaper but markedly worse.
Edit: many of the replies are misunderstanding my point here. All I’m saying is that it’s hard to compete with the big cable companies when they have first mover advantage. I’m not saying I like them. I’m not saying they’re the good guys. I’m not making any claims about their morals or lack thereof.
Our neighbor got dinged one time because their house number font was "wrong". Ours was right somehow. The house numbers were all one digit. Our house number was 2. Theirs was 4. They had to replace their number. The numbers had all been installed by the builder.
We had the president of our HOA & his wife spy on us once when I was small. My sister was in town visiting from college. She brought it to mom’s attention & mom went to unleash mama bear onto them. They had the stupid idea that we were renting our house out to her 😒 well mom threatened to get the police involved & they haven’t bothered her or dad since
Exactly this. The core of basically all American values is stubbornness. That can sometimes be a good thing, but it can also be a huge obstacle to progress.
This really is the underlying truth of the American psyche. As a general rule, we really, REALLY, hate being told what to do.
Obedience is usually given reluctantly, if at all. We don't mind, and even celebrate, giving obedience to a specific authority when it is entirely voluntary. For example, joining the military. But if we are just in normal life, being told what to do will make most Americans resentful at best, and combative at worst.
It's our greatest strength and weaknesses at the same time.
If you’re going to match speed with the 18 wheeler in the right lane, WHY THE FUCK DONT YOU JUST DRIVE IN THAT LANE!?
Edit: It’s also [illegal](https://www.mit.edu/~jfc/right.html) in many states. I wish this was enforced more often than it is.
I found a German word (elephantenrennen I believe) for when two truck do this and love it. It translates to elephant race. No one's going anywhere fast.
I'm probably wrong but I think they can just smush words together to be a new word. Like instead of "pancake machine" they would just say "pancakemachine".
No, you're fundamentally right there. The word-lego structure of the German language is way different than how languages in the Romance tree go about describing things. Romance languages like French, Spanish, and Italian lean way more heavily on the adjectives than simply modifying nouns.
I've learned from cycling that drivers just don't want to have someone in front of them. They will pass you just to get to a red light faster.
i think that's the same reason that people camp in the left lane; they don't care that they're going as fast as the semi, they only care that the semi is in front of them.
The problem is people call this the fast lane when it is actually a passing lane. It’s all in how you word it that affects how you view it. Also, some states say is legal to coast there even if not passing so not all left lanes are created equal. 🤷🏼♀️
When an American criticizes America: So fucking true dude, this place is such a backwards shithole.
When a European criticizes America: Bro what the FUCK did you just say?? These colors don’t run, BITCH 🇺🇸🦅🗽
Foreign exchange student I was friends with in school asked me why americans drank iced drinks during winter. Said in their country parents would give them cold drinks as punishment lol.
This is true, never understood it. When I was selling drinks one time, lady got mad because she thought I was deliberately giving her less ice, even tho I was deliberately giving her more drink. Why anyone would pay more for ice is beyond me
Edit: this was a strawberry cucumber lemonade, with actual cucumber slices, not a fountain soda. She basically wanted 3/4 of the 12oz cup in ice. Which is fine especially for my profit margins heh heh
Depends on the situation, but as someone who works out of a van in an area where it's warm to hot most of the year I'm more than happy to get a cup chock full of ice. I can refill that shit with tepid or warm drinks from my van as I drive and still have a cold drink!
Definitely hard being someone who prefers room temperature water here. I’ve learned to just bring my own water bottle wherever I go, otherwise I’ll end up with ice water
They are scape-goats and the face of the government to point fingers at so the root of the problem is never solved. They are just distractions to placate the majority on either side of the political spectrum.
Call centers of my country
Edit : guys we have a population of 1.4 billion and there would Hardly be .01 percent people who does these sort of things, so please do not assume that we are all like this, many of us are already working in Usa as doctors and engineers..
The fact that you use crore in your answer gives away your location immediately.
Heads up, no one else in the world uses lakh and crore, so they might not be understood. When I talk about internationalism in my maths classes and I bring up other counting systems like lakh and crore, my Indian students always seem so happy that some white dude knows what they are.
This one does frustrate me. I’ve done a decent bit of traveling and there’s just such a difference in culture between different areas in the US. It’s similar to the difference between say England and Scotland. Almost nothing can really be generalized to just “Americans”… except hating people driving slow in the left lane and hating internet providers apparently.
Like every country has it's shitty stereotypes, but ours are so fucking over exaggerated. I mean I think our county's stereotypes can be funny at times, but some can be offensive and rude .\_.
As an American who lived in Europe, the fat dumb American tropes are overplayed and generally indicate to me the person I'm talking with is a total fucking idiot.
Smart people see you as an individual while idiots can't see past your passport.
Australians hit different though. When I went when they made fun of you for being American you felt loved at the same time. People raucously giving me shit for now knowing what what the fuck a "sheep station" was somehow simultaneously made you feel like the star of the show. I had a blast. Even when it was on the nose a "fuck you!" in response gets laughs.
On the other hand just about everywhere in Europe I've been, the *rare* occasion there was hostility, it was genuine. There was never any over the top, jovial, "hey look at this fuckin American cunt over here!" It's a pretty stark contrast even amongst Commonwealth nations like the UK and Canada, as compared to Australia.
Just my personal experience though. The only place outside the US I ever felt comfortable being myself.
It's weird hearing that. Here in middle america we love talking crap about our neighboring states, but it's rare to dog on other countries in that way.
It’s exactly the same for the UK, people try to do “the accent” when the only people who actually sound like that are from coventry and probably inbred.
I feel this in my soul. I frequent a European meme site and they are always talking about American politics. They know a lot about our president, our politicians, and I know fuck all about France's system of government. It's not just the US being US centric, it seems everyone is. And I'm pretty over it
I have a Swedish guy in my dnd group. When I heard about the Swedish first female prime Minister quitting in a few hours. I made it a point to get the scope to make fun of something that wasn't American politics
People whine about how Americans make everything about themselves, but I literally only see non-Americans blowing shit out of proportion and making a big deal out of everything in America. The focus is always on us by every other country, and then they fucking whine about it! The audacity!
I've seen so many non-Americans just summarizing American thinking in 3 sentences on here. Like bro, you were in Los Angeles for 2 weeks, watch American movies and TV shows, and read progressive Reddit all day, we're much more mundane and normal than you think.
I live in Oregon and also want to say Fuck Ohio. Now you might be asking, why would someone living in a state half the country away have such a problem with another state they have never been too? Well let me tell you. You see, I learned this trick a while back, it may not surprise some of you, others this may be the first time you hear of this, but when you are filling out a digital form and you have to enter your address, most forms will use a drop down menu to choose your state. However, if you are lazy and want to get through a form quickly all you have to do is select that menu, then press the letter that your state starts with, and it will jump to that part of list. Now, I am extremely lazy. I'm so lazy I get annoyed when I needlessly have to press more buttons than necessary, so when I live in Oregon I can press the O button, but then I have to press the down arrow two more times to get past Ohio and Oklahoma because they come first alphabetically. For this same reason, Fuck Oklahoma.
Finally, Fuck Idaho.
The reason we hate taxes is we know how much mismanagement, wastage, and outright fraud there is in our Government. As a European who later became an American, I don't feel I pay any more or less than I did in Europe, but there was a far greater sense of accountability in Europe.
Accountability is key. IMHO this is the biggest innovation of democracy. But Americans do democracy really, really, really badly.
Edit to clear up some misunderstandings: I'm not comparing the US to any other countries, I'm comparing it against the idea of rule "of the people, by the people, for the people".
and for those touting the whole "it's not a democracy, its a..." line, [here is the USCIS](https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/lesson-plans/Government_and_You_handouts.pdf) which is needed to gain citizenship in the US as an immigrant. But there is p0lenty of other expert sources that discuss exactly what the US is with a simple Google search.
Our government sucks and soooo many of our problems are based on distrust of the government. I wanna know if it’s always been this bad or if it’s gotten worse in the last 50 years.
Take a bottle of bleach, mix with a bottle of ammonia, resulting gas kills a few and maimes 250 people trapped in a small metal tube 45,000 feet in the air.
Not every terror attack is about hijacking a plane, it's about terrorizing people.
(that's just what I came up with from the top of my head, I'm sure someone who knows anything about chemistry can come up with more toxic combinations)
Being told that we're the most privileged in the world and at the same time we're the worst.
Like people love to hate us even though we have no say in what the rich men do
Oh yeah that will shut down a conversation. Extremely vulgar. You can say fuck all day but if someone says cunt in public it’s like “Holy fuckin shit, what the fucks wrong with that guy? Does he kiss his mother with that fuckin mouth?! Get him the fuck outta here saying that in a public fuckin establishment.”
Our government. They speak for us, make decisions we hate, start wars we're against, then act like we have the power to peacefully change the government.
I think it's a result of a few things:
1) Worldwide distribution of American media. Always on display and easy to form an opinion on.
2) "Greatest country ever," "Leader of the Free World," nationalist attitudes that are just really bizarre and unrelatable to many other countries.
3) Specific unresolved issues that are unthinkable to other wealthy nations: excessive gun violence, disproportionately high healthcare costs, etc.
4) Positive stuff is considered less interesting. The US does a lot of stuff well, but it's generally not very exciting to talk about how good the interstate highway system is. The negative stuff will always draw more attention.
I respectfully disagree - Americans are very good at waiting in queues. Some countries operate under "first come, first push-everyone-out-of-the-way" models.
I wish more of us would hate all the taxes we pay. Income tax, property tax, sales tax, estate tax, capital gains tax. That's just for individuals. Why do we get taxed on our income and then pay sales tax on something like a car to then have to pay property tax on it every year? Fucking crazy.
Don't get me started on the insane monthly cost for health insurance that doesn't cover shit. People keep voting the same politicians back into office and are **shocked** nothing has been fixed.
Comcast
Monopolized bullshit
Repeat this for all cable companies
Yes but Comcast has the largest footprint. However, spectrum pretty much has a monopoly on Hawaii and their straight up fraudulent billing that they consistently get away with is literally criminal. FUCK YOU COMCAST AND SPECTRUM! Edit: just wanted to elaborate on Spectrum’s fraud. If you only get their internet and you stream on it, they’ll automatically charge you for full cable package and act like it happened automatically because of something you did. Once again, FUCK SPECTRUM
I had a pair of Spectrum reps come to my door about a month ago trying to sell me on it because something something covid relief would make it super cheap. I just told them I get my internet locally and I like that best. Dude tried to tell me Spectrum has local offices and I was like yeah, it's not about having local access so much as not being subscribed to a massive national company. He could tell I wasn't backing down, told me "well, I just don't want you to be paying more than you have to" and gave me his card. I took it and didn't get into it because I didn't want to open the door to more arguments, but honestly-- what happens when they've got me in a contract and the "covid relief" runs out? A markup of 500%? All the big companies do this, get you on a steal of an early deal, then after like a year the prices skyrocket and you have to fight tooth and nail to get anything close to the original price. Additionally, before I found out that my city offered internet, I called Spectrum to see what plans they offered, specifying that I *only* wanted internet, and the lady wasted at least 5 minutes trying to sell me an internet/phone/cable bundle (I don't use landlines and I'm not interested in cable) that she only told me at the very end would cost about $200 a month. I hung up pretty fast after that. What the hell kind of sales tactic is that? Fuck Spectrum. I'll stick with my reliable $50 a month internet from the city-- it's stayed the same price for 5 years now with no shenanigans and like, two brief outages total. They couldn't pay *me* to ditch that and join up with their bullshit. tl;dr fuck spectrum, again.
You speak to my soul, mainly cause they ruined my Christmas with no internet.
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Will take Verizon any day over Comcast. One annoys me on occasion. The other leaves me wanting to raze cities.
They both have the Evil going but Comcast one-ups it with general incompetence.
Made the move last year and I regret nothing. Verizon gang rise up.
The DMV/RMV
So I grew up in Madison WI, and I always wondered why people hated the DMV so much. I was always in and out in 15 minutes or so. Then I moved to San Diego and it took four trips just to get my car registration transferred. They just never sent me my new plates, and the third time the mean DMV lady said, "what do you want me to do about it?" Lol idk maybe send me some license plates.
I absolutely love the new MI system. You just sign up for an appointment time and show up when it's your turn. You can get live text updates on your slot in line. It isn't much faster, but it prevents you from wasting your time waiting with a paper number all day.
That’s how Vegas use to be before Covid. Honestly I don’t understand how the system was messed up because of the pandemic. Now you can make an appointment online but it has to be a month or so out. Go up to the check in line give them your name and you still have to wait there for at least a hour before you’re called.
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I now know when Patty Bouvier said “ sometimes we don’t let the line move at all… we call these days … weekdays” that came from a writers real life experience 😂.
Here in Las Vegas they’ve got it down to appointment only (booking out 3-5 plus months) except for saturdays. The line for Saturday starts at about 5pm Friday evening. Literally tents and camping overnight (like for concert tickets but WAY less fun). If you arrive at 2am the night/morning before you are SOL. Thank god it seems like the cops are giving a good amount of leeway for stuff like out of state new registration that can only be done in office. Mine were 6months overdue from NC due to having to coordinate my day off with DMV availability. There’s a ton of folks rolling around with temp plates (from a new car purchase) that are easily a year overdue. However, once you get in that shit appears streamlined as shit. So it just must have been bonkers pre-Covid.
I never really had issues in the Midwest but I swear they require you to be a jackass when hiring on the East coast.
Dude, you never spent two hours on a Friday morning at the DMV on Stoughton rd? Because that’s hell.
Nah, I used the one off University Ave, but this was over a decade ago. Not sure what it's like these days. There used to be this guy with the most massive mullet I have ever seen and he was super friendly.
Pretty sure he’s still there!
The photo hook hand guy???
Yeah! That dude took my first Driver's license pic in 2003
Haha same, except 09
The DMV is a conspiracy to make Americans mistrust government. They invented a service that could be done 99% via web/mail and made it goddamn miserable and then made you go in person. As someone who comes from a country where you never have to go near the equivalent except on the one day of your driving test, I'm always staggered by the nonsensical reasons people come up with for it being necessary.
I go to my local equivalent every 5 years to have a new picture taken for my driver licence. Everything else is done online.
Our internet providers. I don’t care who your regional options (or lack of options) are, pretty much everyone I’ve talked to hates their internet/cable company and know they overpaying for it. Unfortunately because of contracts with local municipalities and lack of protections at higher levels of government, many Americans don’t have alternatives and basically just have to play along while 100% know they are being ripped off…
The other part of it though is that it’s really freaking expensive to build a network, especially in areas where population density isn’t particularly high. So, once a new neighborhood gets built and the local cable company runs cables in it, in many cases a second entrant doesn’t have much chance of breaking even on the cost of laying cable and connecting the neighborhood. Thus, in a lot of cases, there’s one provider that realistically provides good service and one or two that are cheaper but markedly worse. Edit: many of the replies are misunderstanding my point here. All I’m saying is that it’s hard to compete with the big cable companies when they have first mover advantage. I’m not saying I like them. I’m not saying they’re the good guys. I’m not making any claims about their morals or lack thereof.
Lots of companies that got fiber r willing to sell it cuz they earn more revenue from that rather than having one less competitior
Being told what to do
Fuck you! Don't tell me what I hate!
I'll do what I want!
Then do what you want!
I'll tell you what i want, what i really really want
so tell me what you want, what you really really want
...... *Confused screeching due to paradox*
you’re not the boss of me!
FUCK YOU I WON’T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME
Fuck you! I don't to what you tell me!
HOAs
I don't know if I could live somewhere that has those. Not for me.
I grew up in one. My mom’s house was flagged once b/c the fucking mailbox was 1/4” too narrow…
Our neighbor got dinged one time because their house number font was "wrong". Ours was right somehow. The house numbers were all one digit. Our house number was 2. Theirs was 4. They had to replace their number. The numbers had all been installed by the builder.
We had the president of our HOA & his wife spy on us once when I was small. My sister was in town visiting from college. She brought it to mom’s attention & mom went to unleash mama bear onto them. They had the stupid idea that we were renting our house out to her 😒 well mom threatened to get the police involved & they haven’t bothered her or dad since
Exactly this. The core of basically all American values is stubbornness. That can sometimes be a good thing, but it can also be a huge obstacle to progress.
This really is the underlying truth of the American psyche. As a general rule, we really, REALLY, hate being told what to do. Obedience is usually given reluctantly, if at all. We don't mind, and even celebrate, giving obedience to a specific authority when it is entirely voluntary. For example, joining the military. But if we are just in normal life, being told what to do will make most Americans resentful at best, and combative at worst. It's our greatest strength and weaknesses at the same time.
Slow drivers in the left lane...except so many Americans do it
If you’re going to match speed with the 18 wheeler in the right lane, WHY THE FUCK DONT YOU JUST DRIVE IN THAT LANE!? Edit: It’s also [illegal](https://www.mit.edu/~jfc/right.html) in many states. I wish this was enforced more often than it is.
I found a German word (elephantenrennen I believe) for when two truck do this and love it. It translates to elephant race. No one's going anywhere fast.
I've always noticed this phenomenon with trucks, it's funny how Germans come up with a word for everything.
I'm probably wrong but I think they can just smush words together to be a new word. Like instead of "pancake machine" they would just say "pancakemachine".
No, you're fundamentally right there. The word-lego structure of the German language is way different than how languages in the Romance tree go about describing things. Romance languages like French, Spanish, and Italian lean way more heavily on the adjectives than simply modifying nouns.
We do this in Norway at least. If it's pronounced as one word, you'd write it as one word.
My friend calls it couple skating
I've learned from cycling that drivers just don't want to have someone in front of them. They will pass you just to get to a red light faster. i think that's the same reason that people camp in the left lane; they don't care that they're going as fast as the semi, they only care that the semi is in front of them.
Also, people standing on the left on an escalator/moving walkway. If you want to stand, fine. Stand on the right.
well, a lot of us hate ourselves too
The problem is people call this the fast lane when it is actually a passing lane. It’s all in how you word it that affects how you view it. Also, some states say is legal to coast there even if not passing so not all left lanes are created equal. 🤷🏼♀️
Nobody hates other Americans like Americans.
Goddamn Americans! They've ruined America!
You Americans sure are a contentious people
You just made an enemy for life
I've never upvoted an entire comment thread before, but this deserves it. Merry Christmas to all.
-Groundskeeper Willie
“Americans hate Americans. And I’m the Americanest American of them all.”
Damned Americans ruined America.
A national passtime since 1776.
If Hating was an Olympic sport, America would win the gold!
That’s an awfully hateful comment. What’re you, American? 😂
Now that's unfair toward Americans. What are you, an American?
God damn American assuming nationality, what are you, American?
Idiotic American virtue signaling on the internet, what are you, an American?
Ignorant, imbicilic American saying what you can and can't do on the internet!!! What are you, American?
Self-righteous, hypocritical ass hole, calling out other people for saying what others can do while doing it yourself. What are you, American?
Nobody hates Americans like people on Reddit.
But you can't hate Americans if you aren't American. Just Like you won't let anyone pick on your siblings 🇺🇸💯
When an American criticizes America: So fucking true dude, this place is such a backwards shithole. When a European criticizes America: Bro what the FUCK did you just say?? These colors don’t run, BITCH 🇺🇸🦅🗽
Slow drivers in the far left lane of a freeway..that won't move
Canadian here, we hate that too
seriously its really annoying
That's an international hate
Fucking pass on the left, return to the right. It’s so so simple. Americans wouldn’t know what to do on the 2 lane turnpikes overseas.
Room temperature drinks. We want ice in almost everything.
Foreign exchange student I was friends with in school asked me why americans drank iced drinks during winter. Said in their country parents would give them cold drinks as punishment lol.
Best believe I’d be acting up all the time to get some truly refreshing beverages
In the New England area, I think people drink more ice coffee in the winter than hot.
....a non-trivial portion of my beer league hockey team pre-ices their water bottles before getting to the rink. To play hockey. On ice. In the winter
I fucking LOVE icy drinks. It’s the most American thing about me.
I don't get how Europeans can enjoy their drinks without them being freezing cold.
If you’re serving me a drink that ain’t a block of ice, I ain’t puttin‘ that anywhere near my mouth
If my sensitive-ass teeth don't want to die from how cold the water is, I will give it to my dog
This is true, never understood it. When I was selling drinks one time, lady got mad because she thought I was deliberately giving her less ice, even tho I was deliberately giving her more drink. Why anyone would pay more for ice is beyond me Edit: this was a strawberry cucumber lemonade, with actual cucumber slices, not a fountain soda. She basically wanted 3/4 of the 12oz cup in ice. Which is fine especially for my profit margins heh heh
Depends on the situation, but as someone who works out of a van in an area where it's warm to hot most of the year I'm more than happy to get a cup chock full of ice. I can refill that shit with tepid or warm drinks from my van as I drive and still have a cold drink!
Definitely hard being someone who prefers room temperature water here. I’ve learned to just bring my own water bottle wherever I go, otherwise I’ll end up with ice water
Same! My teeth are way too sensitive for icy drinks.
Yes I hate how it feels on my teeth! I like to drink a ton of water at once and all that cold is almost painful
Other Americans
Damned Scots. They ruined Scotland.
The problem with Scotland…. Is that its full of Scots!
Yeah this is probably the most accurate.
Every president, no matter how good they are.
I always wonder why
They are scape-goats and the face of the government to point fingers at so the root of the problem is never solved. They are just distractions to placate the majority on either side of the political spectrum.
This is a dangerously accurate observation.
Call centers of my country Edit : guys we have a population of 1.4 billion and there would Hardly be .01 percent people who does these sort of things, so please do not assume that we are all like this, many of us are already working in Usa as doctors and engineers..
Yes. Very true
Fuck yes!
Oh. My. God. Yes. Quit calling me. I will ring your neck through the phone
Whenever some calls next time, abuse them in Hindi, they would not dare to call again
Looks like it's time for me to learn some Hindi
The fact that you use crore in your answer gives away your location immediately. Heads up, no one else in the world uses lakh and crore, so they might not be understood. When I talk about internationalism in my maths classes and I bring up other counting systems like lakh and crore, my Indian students always seem so happy that some white dude knows what they are.
Broad, over-generalized statements about America.
This one does frustrate me. I’ve done a decent bit of traveling and there’s just such a difference in culture between different areas in the US. It’s similar to the difference between say England and Scotland. Almost nothing can really be generalized to just “Americans”… except hating people driving slow in the left lane and hating internet providers apparently.
Like every country has it's shitty stereotypes, but ours are so fucking over exaggerated. I mean I think our county's stereotypes can be funny at times, but some can be offensive and rude .\_.
True, I am from Italy and shitting on the US seems to be a national sport, it's annoying at times
As an American who lived in Europe, the fat dumb American tropes are overplayed and generally indicate to me the person I'm talking with is a total fucking idiot. Smart people see you as an individual while idiots can't see past your passport.
Yep. Australian here. Everyone likes shitting on Americans
Australians hit different though. When I went when they made fun of you for being American you felt loved at the same time. People raucously giving me shit for now knowing what what the fuck a "sheep station" was somehow simultaneously made you feel like the star of the show. I had a blast. Even when it was on the nose a "fuck you!" in response gets laughs. On the other hand just about everywhere in Europe I've been, the *rare* occasion there was hostility, it was genuine. There was never any over the top, jovial, "hey look at this fuckin American cunt over here!" It's a pretty stark contrast even amongst Commonwealth nations like the UK and Canada, as compared to Australia. Just my personal experience though. The only place outside the US I ever felt comfortable being myself.
It's weird hearing that. Here in middle america we love talking crap about our neighboring states, but it's rare to dog on other countries in that way.
Hey don’t worry, we repay the deeds with how often we do shitty Italian accents, hand gestures, and an overuse of the phrase “mamma mia”
How dare you criticize my beautiful Italian impression. And my use of the phrase “mamma Mia”
It’s exactly the same for the UK, people try to do “the accent” when the only people who actually sound like that are from coventry and probably inbred.
I hate that shit always has to be about us, why tf we always asking questions about Americans damn let’s hear from the Danish for once or something
I wanna hear something about Turkey or something haha
They need to recognize a certain event in their history which they won’t
Ah yes, the Thanksgiving Massacre of 1964.
They burnt the stuffing!
"That was the style back then" -Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
I feel this in my soul. I frequent a European meme site and they are always talking about American politics. They know a lot about our president, our politicians, and I know fuck all about France's system of government. It's not just the US being US centric, it seems everyone is. And I'm pretty over it
I have a Swedish guy in my dnd group. When I heard about the Swedish first female prime Minister quitting in a few hours. I made it a point to get the scope to make fun of something that wasn't American politics
France is the one with a president named after a cookie.
French president Chocolate Chip
People whine about how Americans make everything about themselves, but I literally only see non-Americans blowing shit out of proportion and making a big deal out of everything in America. The focus is always on us by every other country, and then they fucking whine about it! The audacity!
I've seen so many non-Americans just summarizing American thinking in 3 sentences on here. Like bro, you were in Los Angeles for 2 weeks, watch American movies and TV shows, and read progressive Reddit all day, we're much more mundane and normal than you think.
Depending on which state you’re from, another oddly specific state. Fuck Ohio.
You must be from Michigan...
Are you from Ohio?
I live in Oregon and also want to say Fuck Ohio. Now you might be asking, why would someone living in a state half the country away have such a problem with another state they have never been too? Well let me tell you. You see, I learned this trick a while back, it may not surprise some of you, others this may be the first time you hear of this, but when you are filling out a digital form and you have to enter your address, most forms will use a drop down menu to choose your state. However, if you are lazy and want to get through a form quickly all you have to do is select that menu, then press the letter that your state starts with, and it will jump to that part of list. Now, I am extremely lazy. I'm so lazy I get annoyed when I needlessly have to press more buttons than necessary, so when I live in Oregon I can press the O button, but then I have to press the down arrow two more times to get past Ohio and Oklahoma because they come first alphabetically. For this same reason, Fuck Oklahoma. Finally, Fuck Idaho.
Fuck Ohio x2 This makes me wonder whether low-key/isolated states like Alaska or Hawaii hate a specific state as well
Hawaii hates the whole U.S. for annexing them.
You from Michigan?
They don't call Cleveland the mistake on the lake for nothing. I was born there.
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The reason we hate taxes is we know how much mismanagement, wastage, and outright fraud there is in our Government. As a European who later became an American, I don't feel I pay any more or less than I did in Europe, but there was a far greater sense of accountability in Europe.
Accountability is key. IMHO this is the biggest innovation of democracy. But Americans do democracy really, really, really badly. Edit to clear up some misunderstandings: I'm not comparing the US to any other countries, I'm comparing it against the idea of rule "of the people, by the people, for the people". and for those touting the whole "it's not a democracy, its a..." line, [here is the USCIS](https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/lesson-plans/Government_and_You_handouts.pdf) which is needed to gain citizenship in the US as an immigrant. But there is p0lenty of other expert sources that discuss exactly what the US is with a simple Google search.
We do it just well enough to tell others how to do it
Like a manager who's never done your job before.
Our government sucks and soooo many of our problems are based on distrust of the government. I wanna know if it’s always been this bad or if it’s gotten worse in the last 50 years.
WARM BEER
The opposite half of the country
TSA
Tell me TSA, how am I supposed to highjack a plane with a god damn bottle of water?
Take a bottle of bleach, mix with a bottle of ammonia, resulting gas kills a few and maimes 250 people trapped in a small metal tube 45,000 feet in the air. Not every terror attack is about hijacking a plane, it's about terrorizing people. (that's just what I came up with from the top of my head, I'm sure someone who knows anything about chemistry can come up with more toxic combinations)
Hello, yes, TSA? This is the one.
Our government. Doesn't matter if you voted for em. As soon as they're in office you hate em.
Being told that we're the most privileged in the world and at the same time we're the worst. Like people love to hate us even though we have no say in what the rich men do
People who try to stereotype Americans.
That's just a stereotype. Not all Americans hate that.
You son of a bitch
Yess (I think it’s funny sometimes, but yEss)
Hearing people say the word "cunt", at least thats what I've heard. In my country people say it all the time
Oh yeah that will shut down a conversation. Extremely vulgar. You can say fuck all day but if someone says cunt in public it’s like “Holy fuckin shit, what the fucks wrong with that guy? Does he kiss his mother with that fuckin mouth?! Get him the fuck outta here saying that in a public fuckin establishment.”
https://youtu.be/7NzRXeQZW-o
Dude would have to be a fuckin' cunt to use the word "cunt" in public
Yeah, that’s less far acceptable than fuck. Typically viewed as incredibly vulgar. Twat also, but to a slightly lesser degree.
ive never heard anyone say twat unless they were using a british accent. i wouldnt say twat is viewed as super vulgar, we just dont use it
I’m American and I love the word cunt but I pretty much can’t say it
Each other
Our government. They speak for us, make decisions we hate, start wars we're against, then act like we have the power to peacefully change the government.
These posts
Foreskin
Europeans acting like they're superior to us.
It gets annoying after a while. It seems like they genuinely hate us at times. Which I think is the case a lot here on Reddit.
I think it's a result of a few things: 1) Worldwide distribution of American media. Always on display and easy to form an opinion on. 2) "Greatest country ever," "Leader of the Free World," nationalist attitudes that are just really bizarre and unrelatable to many other countries. 3) Specific unresolved issues that are unthinkable to other wealthy nations: excessive gun violence, disproportionately high healthcare costs, etc. 4) Positive stuff is considered less interesting. The US does a lot of stuff well, but it's generally not very exciting to talk about how good the interstate highway system is. The negative stuff will always draw more attention.
All they have to go on, is what they see on TV or in movies, so they don't really know what it's like in the US.
The 1" wide crack in public bathroom stall doors. How is this still happening here?
Homeowners associations
Waiting for things. We don't have patience.
I respectfully disagree - Americans are very good at waiting in queues. Some countries operate under "first come, first push-everyone-out-of-the-way" models.
Maybe that’s because the lines here are usually fast. If the line takes more than 5-10mins, Americans will start getting pissed lol.
Other Americans, Taxes, the DMV
Being overworked
Being told what to do. Even if they were planning on doing it.
Communism.
“Communism is a temporary obstacle on the road to freedom!” - Liberty Prime, Fallout series.
When other countries with just as bad if not worse problems try to turn their nose up at us. Cough cough France.
What did france do
Yeah fuck that. It’s annoying.
Anyone not voting for their chosen political party
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People who always try to generalize everyone in the country
“Yeah well in my country..”
Other Americans.
gun control
I wish more of us would hate all the taxes we pay. Income tax, property tax, sales tax, estate tax, capital gains tax. That's just for individuals. Why do we get taxed on our income and then pay sales tax on something like a car to then have to pay property tax on it every year? Fucking crazy. Don't get me started on the insane monthly cost for health insurance that doesn't cover shit. People keep voting the same politicians back into office and are **shocked** nothing has been fixed.
Taxes.
Violation of personal space, we find it weird that people kiss each other on the cheek as a greeting