Ask a Yank of the Day

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  • garbage

    Collate your queries here.

  • _niko2

    question 1.
    Why is a Brit starting a thread called ask a yank?

    • oh wait i thought you were Gardener lol_niko
    • lol, I wish.garbage
  • grafician-3

    Why is America so fucked?

  • mort_1

    How bad does it have to get to consider emigrating?

    • RBG dies before the election, Mitch McConnell shoves in another lifelong lunatic into the Supreme Court, Trump wins his second term.garbage
    • Let's be honest though, Americans used to be figuratively toxic. Expatriation might be tough now that we're literally toxic.garbage
    • Pretty bad. Just like anyone else that wants to leave a country they grew up in. I just finished a feature length Doc about someone who immigrated during badtoemaas
    • times in Eastern Europe in the 90s (to America). Would be a shame if he would have to do it twice in 1 life.toemaas
    • Bad. I can escape politics and live in the hills if i want toscarabin
    • After W in 2000 I thought about Europe but now they have a lot of the same populist bullshit. Canada is a great option but I can't even handle how cold NYC is.CyBrainX
    • Just bumping this to pimp my sadly true comment and remind people to fucking vote.garbage
  • utopian0

    With the American empire in decline, are American's prepared for what comes next?

    • I expect they're not nearly as prepared for the mi'suse of the apo'strophe, but...YMMV.zarb0z
    • American’s what?monospaced
    • Most aren't. Wait, I meant "most a'rent".garbage
    • These notes ar'ent easy on the brain.Continuity
    • Tell us what you think comes next Utopiantoemaas
    • America will never decline, god only loves America
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    • I would like so much to reply some of the questions but I'm not a yank.oey_oey
    • @oey_oey Here's your honorary green card. You can be American for 2 years.garbage
  • eryx8

    Why cant you just use the fucking metric system!

    • < thissted
    • Fucking right.Continuity
    • hey canada...what's your height and how much do you weigh?hotroddy
    • canada: 5'10" and 160 poundshotroddy
    • Hey Mike Weir, how far do you hit your driver?hotroddy
    • Mike Weir: I hit an average 290 yardshotroddy
    • The metric system issue is a microcosm of America.CyBrainX
    • *walks a mile to the pub to get a pint of ale and pays in hundred penny pounds at 12:00pm, sits down and posts a snarky comment about the US lack of MetricNairn
  • _niko-1

    Do you all have a portrait of your leader Vladimir Putin on your walls just like your president does?

    • No, we're not allowed to show His face.garbage
    • But seriously, some alt-right types might do this. Counter question for any Irish: Why did your grandparents hang JFK portraits? Is it a Catholic thing?garbage
    • The only time he is on the wall is if it's on the news... for the handful of old people that still actually watch that dumb shit. Quit acting like your from CAtoemaas
    • Lol only an American would think CA is California and not Canada_niko
    • Mine is over my bed so i can gaze at it while boinking. Helps me get offscarabin
    • Jesus scarabin. Article 152 strictly prohibits horizontal boinking. Don't make me report you to bureau.garbage
    • What made you think I thought you were from Cali?toemaas
  • Nairn0

    Why do your principal cultural exports taste better abroad - McDonalds and Coca-Cola are both renowned for tasting muich better outside the US.

    .

    Also, when are you going to share Chik'n'Fil with us?

    • fucking lol, I just made up a 'Tenneesee Fried Chicken-a-like'Nairn
    • Huh, apparently they tried, and failed in Reading. https://www.chick-fi…Nairn
    • ^ that's hilarious. As for Coke, it can be explained here: https://www.huffpost…garbage
    • I don't really drink soda, but when I do it's a Mexican Coke, because it is made with cane sugar.garbage
    • And we're keeping our CFA, god damn it.garbage
    • Can't answer this one as I don't consume any of that garbage and I sure as shit wouldn't consume it abroad if I had a limited amount of meals while im theretoemaas
    • Coca-Cola is the dark nectar nipple-excreta of your society's capitalist gods. I've joyously supped upon those teats since I was a kid and loved every secondNairn
    • McDs and, I imagine, CF too are both absolutely shit, but hey, the point stands.Nairn
  • Continuity3

    What's with your bizarre aversion to measuring dry ingredients sensibly and logically by weight, instead of by volume in recipes?

    • Because our recipes are written in volumes and so are measuring cups.monospaced
    • And weighing each ingredient is tedious. That being said I do want a kitchen scale for when I want to cook like a proper cunt.monospaced
    • You people are fucked up.Continuity
    • Americans cook with cups of tomatoes and buckets of rice.face_melter
    • And a size 42 Air Jordan 2 holds just the right amount of beans.face_melter
    • Wait.
      Having kitchen scales makes me a cunt?
      I didn't need it anyway, but this on top of everything? Jeez. They're like £8.
      Nairn
    • Top tip: the measurement of flour in a crepe recipe should be about the weight of each egg used. Doesn't matter whether it's metric or imperial.Nairn
    • Can't do that with a fucking cup.

      Whatever a fucking cup is.

      Hopefully not menstrual.
      Nairn
  • face_melter-3

    Why do you call pasta and spaghetti 'noodles' instead of their actual given name? Is Fusilli 'twisty noodles'?

    And in turn what do you call actual-factual noodles - Mystical Eastern Edible String?

    • Probably to make it a simple as possible for their infantile brains to comprehend. Which why you also see signs during elections that say, 'voting place' ...Continuity
    • ... instead of the more complex and sophisticated 'polling station'.Continuity
    • We don'ttoemaas
    • Checked my pantry. Spaghetti, Fettuccine, Linguine, Penne, Capelli d'angelo, Shanxi, Lo mein, Udon. And some black bean spaghetti that I shouldn't have..garbage
    • ..bought. Out of Bucatini, thanks for the reminder lol. But yeah, we don't.garbage
    • Black bean spaghetti? That sounds a bit vile.Continuity
    • haha, i actually have some of that at home in the cupboard. bought on a whim. sat there for at least a year, unwanted.Nairn
    • @face, not sure what you're referring to, you'll never see a box of italian style pasta listed as just "noodles"monospaced
  • Nairn0

    Why is your better salt 'Kosher salt'?

    I never got that one.

    • i never got that too. kosher is the way you prepare things...renderedred
    • yes, and it is a way of preparing salt toomonospaced
    • You use that salt to prepare things that you want to be Kosher.toemaas
    • The crystals are bigger, this more of a molecular issue.garbage
    • @tomass, wrongmonospaced
    • how do you prepare kosher salt exactly @mono? except paying the rabbinate for a stamp. other than that all salt is kosher,renderedred
    • as long as it doesn't come in contact with something not kosher...renderedred
    • as far as i know no pigs roaming salt farms :)renderedred
  • Nairn-1

    Also, is using the term 'Oriental' verboten over there?

    I've had flak for using it in the past on here - but in the UK it's a commonly-used descriptor.

    • I think it falls into the same 'no-go' category as saying 'eskimo' in Canada.Continuity
    • When referring to people, yes, typically not when referring to objectswhatthefunk
    • It also fucks up measuring out salt in a recipe, if you use antiquted spoons to measure a dry ingredient. So, then, one is forced to figure out ...Continuity
    • ... how much a tablespoon of kosher salt weighs, and then measure out the same weight in whatever other salt one typically uses.Continuity
    • *antiquated. Fuck me, I seem to have contracted whatever degenerative brain disease afflicts yurimon/deathboy.Continuity
    • Also, all three of the above notes belong to the post below. Fucking hell.Continuity
    • We have a lot of different asians, so we address them from where they come from.toemaas
    • hahaha, wonderful.

      @whatthefunk - makes sense! hadn't thought about it that way
      Nairn
  • Continuity-2

    Why is it you Amercians — when abroad, in a non-Anglophone country — automatically launch into speaking English with someone from said country, without first respectfully and politely asking if they actually speak English?

    • As a matter of principle, when I encounter this in Germany, I simply say, 'Tut mir leid. Ich spreche kein Englisch'.Continuity
    • Or 'Désolé, j'parle pas l'anglais', when I encounter it in France.Continuity
    • I don't. We have free "Mango Language" programs at our public libraries that teach language learning for free and prepare you for the basics when visiting...toemaas
    • ...another country. I'm assuming you mostly interface with American people that unload from cruise ships?toemaas
    • Most Americans don't like those people either :)toemaas
    • Fuck knows where they've been offloaded from. Certainly not cruise ships, I'm land-locked.Continuity
    • Maybe b/c out of the world's approximately 7.5 billion inhabitants, 1.5 billion speak English — that's 20% of the Earth's population.whatthefunk
    • English is by far the most commonly studied foreign language in the world, and most americans only speak 1 language so, ya know...whatthefunk
  • MondoMorphic0

    For the life of me I don't understand why there is such delight by you people in the notion of a decline of the American Empire. IF America were to cease to exist, do you not realize what that would mean for the rest of the free world? What that would mean specifically for you?

    Already America is the reason you people are speaking English and not German or Russian. What language do you think you would be speaking of America ceased to exist?

    Please explain this.

    • Mondo, don't let the internet trollery trigger any emotions. This thread is a great opportunity to have a direct discourse with our fellow QBNers. Even if thetoemaas
    • first few questions are silly. I thin it will go ina good direction and actually create some understanding as most of the myth around America has gone fromtoemaas
    • the weird perception fo Hollywood form the 20th century to one of a country of roving lunatics and idiots. Every country has those. But the thread is callingtoemaas
    • on REAL people, not blogs or news sites that need ad revenue, to answer. Questions away.toemaas
    • ich spreche ein bisschenkingsteven
    • English is my 3rd languagedrgs
    • Nothing will happen to the world and America will not disappear. It will just lose it's importance to become a country between Canada and Brazildrgs
    • Good points, toemaas. My question is posted here but it's regarding all of the anti-American sentiment on QBN. It'd be interesting to know...MondoMorphic
  • ********
    -4

    Why are you so fucking stupid?

    • Adolescent internet trolling is so Passé.toemaas
    • Shut the fuck up, Tom.
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    • Choice of words in the question aside, there's a grain of truth, there. Anti-intellectualism does seem endemic in the US, and that's a fair point.Continuity
    • True, in some parts of the country where early schooling was set aside for going directly to work, they came up with the phrase,toemaas
    • "If you can't be smart, then you better be tough." An unfortunate set of circumstances...toemaas
    • endemic among the bobos, and most americans are JUST as appalled by itmonospaced
    • Because smart citizens are dangerous citizensscarabin
    • Did the babydick squeak? You're boring.garbage
  • Continuity4

    OK, something less serious now.

    Instead of foisting all of your shitty fast food on the rest of the world, why didn't you make a concerted effort to spread the good word about real barbecue, instead? That shit is fucking delicious.

    WTF were you thinking?!

    • I DEMAND AN APOLOGY.Continuity
    • You couldn’t handle real bbq.monospaced
    • I already have done several times. Fucking pansy.Continuity
    • I have very serious and angry opinions about BBQ. I was born in the south and moving to the PNW and the shit that people try to pass off as BBQ drives me nuts.garbage
    • But if you have BBQ questions, I will give bbq answers.garbage
    • Pansy?monospaced
    • Thinking with their arse
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    • @garbage My understanding of BBQ is that the real deal pretty much starts in Kansas and goes south. Correct?Continuity
  • eryx2

    Thank you for pronouncing "Z" as "Zee" and not "Zed". It rhymes with "A B C D E" so much better.

    We as the rest of the world will adopt this if you get rid of a "1/3 cup"

    • The pronunciation 'zed' has its origins in the ancient Greek 'zeta'. So 'zed' makes perfect sense to me.Continuity
    • ^ Except, it’s pronounced ZEE-tahGnash
    • In modern Greek, yes, but not in ancient Greek, from which is originates.Continuity
    • In Ancient Greek it’s still not zed. Only If it’s in the middle of a word it’s pronounce ‘dz’ as in how the word ‘suds’ ends..Gnash
  • ********
    5

    Why you so cute

  • drgs0

    What are Americans afraid of (in general)?

    • David Bowiescarabin
    • ^ you got that mixed up there sonny jimcannonball1978
    • Honestly i would say lack of success. There’s a sense here that we’re not poor, we’re just temporarily embarassed millionaires. The US is a land of opportunityscarabin
    • Healthy food and exercise
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    • ...and not being a rich celebrity is your fault. That’s probably more pronounced here in LA/Hollywood, thoughscarabin
    • Interesting.monospaced
    • starvationfadein11
    • Love how practically only UK/Europe peeps are shitting on the US
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  • Wolfboy2

    Why only one 'math' but many 'M&Ms'?

  • sted7

    When are you going to take responsibility for burning down the middle east and the European refugee crisis?

    • probably when they take responsibility for what they did in the balkans.renderedred
    • and South America.face_melter
    • How is any person supposed to answer, considering they have nothing to take credit for? Really.monospaced
    • Sure you personally have nothing to do with those people who visioned WMDs, dropped bombs, and soldiers in a pointless war what generated an insane migration...sted
    • Like every single U.S. citizen.
      lol. you couldn't deny that you're American.
      sted
    • Which part did i do? I apologize for it.scarabin
    • *coughIndiacough*cannonball1978