Things you like about the Yanks

Buzzer

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Their big day innit, the 4th of July. Despite their thick as shit President, their obsession with race, the mangling of the English language, their weird way of writing the month before the day, Adam Sandler, their 'thing' with guns and their whooping when polite clapping would suffice, there's lots to like about them.

Music has to be a big plus: Blues, Rock n Roll, country (we gave them that), soul, funk, The Pixies, Blondie, Public Enemy, Elliott Smith, Elvis, Billie Holliday, Madonna, Dylan. That's not too shabby a list in itself.

TV gave us The Monkees, The Muppets, Breaking Bad, Family Guy, Tucker Carlson (a guilty pleasure of mine).

Films: David Lynch, Coen Brothers, Orson Welles, Star Wars, The Goonies, Francis Ford Copella, Sam Wannamaker, Bogart and Bacall.

Politics: Kennedy, Lincoln, Roosevelt (both of them), Luther King

Literature: Angelou, Bukowski, Twain, Hunter S Thomson, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Lovecraft.

They're not so bad.

 

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Wellesley

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Donald Trump.

 

Buzzer

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Make America Great Britain again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5T-uxRnFzE

 

RONALDEANO

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Haywards Heath

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i love how they call football soccer

 

BNthree

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WeHo

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Coca cola and their food are probably the only good things about yanks,

 

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Jimmehh

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Sussex by the Sea

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Not much really...

 

StonehamPark

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BC, Canada

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RONALDEANO said:

i love how they call football soccer

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We called it soccer before they did.

Association Football -> Assoc -> Soccer -> Football.


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The United States of America

Beautiful country, amazing landscapes and scenery.
Ruined by Americans.

 

Is it PotG?

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Sussex by the Sea

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M*A*S*H and Hogan's Heroes

 

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Hotchilidog

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Their ability to yak on and on about sport. Just over halfway through the NFL offseason and I am still getting great entertainment out of the Around the NFL podcast. Even when there are no games on thet can keep the sport alive.

Love me some American football, pro and college.

 

AmexRuislip

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Ruislip

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How they saved us in WW2

 

Buzzer

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StonehamPark said:

We called it soccer before they did.

Association Football -> Assoc -> Soccer -> Football.

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It was almost certainly posh boy, public school slang though to differentiate between rugby and football and that's why it has always sounded wrong and why we and the rest of the world say 'football'. It's FIFA, EUFA, CONCACAF, FA, OFC, CAF. All those letter Fs and not a single letter S in sight.

 

Meade's Ball

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Hither (sometimes Thither)

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Saved by the Bell, and that I couldn't understand anything said to me in a Washington Starbucks, which turned out to be about cup size. Oh, and a hotel in a Manhattan that didn't argue with the statement made that a vast, unflushable plop was already in the toilet of the room I was to stay in, in spite of the fact that I laid that monster a mere 5 minutes into my stay.

 

beorhthelm

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Jul 21, 2003

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invention of the transistor has been pretty useful.

 

Buzzer

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beorhthelm said:

invention of the transistor has been pretty useful.

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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Larry Page have all made a bit of a difference to our lives too.

 

Tyrone Biggums

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Their TV, Sports and Ska Music.

 

Buzzer

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Tyrone Biggums said:

Ska Music.

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Eh? I think Jamaica and Britain might take issue with you on that one.

 

Gazwag

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I like the fact that there are buildings in my town almost 700 years older than the US of A

 

Tyrone Biggums

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Buzzer said:

Eh? I think Jamaica and Britain might take issue with you on that one.

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3rd wave ska was owned by the Yanks.

Some truly brilliant dance tunes from the 90's

 

Blue3

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Lancing

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Americans I have meet were on the whole nice and polite, yet some Americans are not so nice being racist gun toting loons

What I like most is they are over there while we are over here

 

Buzzer

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Tyrone Biggums said:

3rd wave ska was owned by the Yanks.

Some truly brilliant dance tunes from the 90's

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Fair enough. And I think No Doubt were part of that scene too before they became more pop-oriented.