I'm American. Ask me anything.

[figbat]

Well you taught me something - I’d have placed Newark (-on-Trent) in Lincolnshire.

 

[Gravity Aided]

You might find that a few hillbillies will object to being placed in the same category as white trash. Trash are well known in their location, just ask social services, bill collectors, and the local gendarmerie. Hillbillies are more independent, also more of a moving target.

 

[anothersam]

I’m a big fan of Bigfoot.

I know!

But why is he never seen by sober people who aren't hillbillies, people who aren't nutters with tinfoil hats, or steady people without the wobbliest of cameras?

It’s only a matter of time.

Well you taught me something - I’d have placed Newark (-on-Trent) in Lincolnshire.

I just placed it where Google told me to. Currently its residents may indeed prefer to be in the land of Lincolnshire, depending which tier suits them.

You might find that a few hillbillies will object to being placed in the same category as white trash. Trash are well known in their location, just ask social services, bill collectors, and the local gendarmerie. Hillbillies are more independent, also more of a moving target.

They’ll have to take it up with the internet, which loves trash talk.

I say “they”, but thanks to a paternal line which hails from the Ohio/Kentucky borderlands, I have been grandfathered in. That I spend a lot of time in the hills (cycling up them counts) should cinch my membership.

Grandpa, who was also something of a moving target, posing with tourists on their way south to Dueling Banjos, Georgia

 

[Chris S]

Lessons learned in the two score and five years I've been here?
– Fitted carpets in a bathroom really aren't a great idea.

Then how are you supposed to stop the dribbles from around the toilet going on the floor?

 

[Drago]

Why does John Lithgow not play more bad dudes in fillums?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I will answer this using the maieutic method. (It’s a new word for me, too.) Why do UKians call property attached to their property a garden, no matter how ungardeny it may be?

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An example of pretty gardeny

Because Garden comes from Old English Geard which means enclosure. A garden is an enclosure. Guard as in to guard has a similar derivation.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Also, I thought all American cars were automatics.

No - that's guns

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Why does John Lithgow not play more bad dudes in fillums?

Because he kills all the film crew during his filming breaks. So the films never get released.

 

[Domus]

Best anti-theft device in a car in the USA is a manual gearbox.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

What is the American dream? And just how many achieve it?

 

[Gravity Aided]

What is the American dream? And just how many achieve it?

I haven't seen anyone achieve it yet, except for me. Because I am happy with my house, bicycles, car, and wife, I have achieved a truly high level of contentment. I quit watching Tv some years ago, that certainly helped.

 

[MntnMan62]

Why can Joe Biden not remember Trump's name and have tomask hismwife under his breath what the presidents name is? It's only a single syllable, with the added bonus of comedy value for being a slang term for a fart, yet Sleepy Joe can't remember it?

I think most people in this country who have a brain want to forget the screaming orange sphincter muscle's name. And he's far better at mispronouncing words than Joe. I find it hilarious seeing what people seem to be drawn to Trump. Not a single one can come up with an intelligent rationale.

 

[MntnMan62]

Then how are you supposed to stop the dribbles from around the toilet going on the floor?

Why do you need to stop the dribbles from going on the floor? We wash our bathroom floors in our house.

 

[Archie_tect]

What is the American dream? And just how many achieve it?

Until the nightmare of Trump is over how can Americans sleep at night to dream?

 

[Drago]

Us rednecks sleep very well knowing that the Donald has our backs.

One day we too will sleep with an ex supermodel on a mattress stuffed full of banknotes.