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Jan 13, 2017 5:23 PM
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BoozeHound001
#8 We all know bill was the first black president in spirit.
svenmack
this post has a nice europe/murica mix. I vote up
VikingEagle
Delusional108
I'm proud of my country. 'Murica!
MrMightyMackerelMan
https://media.giphy.com/media/L33roJlGWbB2E/giphy.gif
Fishtank307
More like Rutherford oh B. Haves amirite?
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YouAreActuallyPrettyWorthy
As a NH resident, I can say that we are oddly obsessed with pumpkins. Bunch of drunk college students totally ruined Pumpkinfest once.
PJVeddersGirl
In the UK they're Cool Original
cringemeupscotty
+1 because As a belgian, Finding a post with a reference to belgium is always like
jgardner3611
#4 reminds me of shaggy eating a sandwich. Zoinks Scooby!
guntbagmunkball
Do what you want with that dumb bottled tea, there's nothing British about it!
Zenrant
I've been to the pumpkin regatta.
wellthatwas
Seems about right.
BulbasaurusRekt
mamasmurf78
It takes 12hrs to leave my state and y'all are over there going to a different country for lunch?
abclessthan3
OfWalls
For #8 Toni Morrison, the author, is actually famous for referring to Bill Clinton as the first black president.
Cheomesh
#1:As someone who did tea-culture things for a while, the stuff Brits drink isn't tea either.
brb4ever
miked854
I thought hw was half Asian. Also, IIRC Maya Anjalou called Bill the "first black president."
FnordGallop
Yeah, a spelt is a kind of grain--> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelt
Killertortilla
#5 as an Australian, you shouldn't because I see some in there that won't necessarily kill you but will hurt SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH.
danplfc
The Doritos are called Cool Original in England......
AliensGaveMyCatABeard
Canada has pumpkin regattas as well! At least Nova Scotia does-the valley specifically
SaintNewts
Benelux is a tiny area. It'd be like driving from New York to New Jersey. Minneapolis to Saint Paul, or Saint Louis to East Saint Louis.
Icannevercomeupwithagoodorwittyusernamepleasehelp
Also is a drive no one wants to do?
theBEARDEDarchaeologist
I think that's why it's funny, no?
RigbyAndTheMordecais
As someone from the Illinois side of St Louis — METRO EAST REPRESENT
IndyAndyJones
Sorry, but WTF is a Benelux?
SaintNewts
Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg. Be Ne Lux
IndyAndyJones
Thanks
IndyAndyJones
Thanks
IusallypoopwhileImonhere
Trick question. Gerald ford wasn't elected but gained the position after Nixon resigned. There now you know how smart I am
BlumpkinsAnonymous
ChuckNorrisAteMySock
So I actually did #1 when I was visiting Poland. Wrong country, sure, but I felt the need to observe it by throwing tea into the Vistula. 1
ChuckNorrisAteMySock
StellarZing
Pumpkin Regatta is my hometown #proud
therespectrum
I'm from NH and I've never heard of dressed up pumpkin boating. WTH?
therespectrum
I'm from NH and I've never heard of dressed up pumpkin boating. WTH?
StellarZing
Goffstown in the 603 ????
therespectrum
haha I'm from the Concord area, but this is news to me. The more you know.
JewsOnAlderon
#5 I'd eat them for that much
ICatchIndianScammers
It depends on whether they could kill me or not
madetheaccountjustforyou
I would actually prefer eating them to running through them. But for that much I would have sex with each one of them.
Icanfaptoeverything
Ark-an-saw... okay, I need explanation...
probablyabnormal
People from arkansas get unreasonably angry if you nonchalantly call their state "Ar-kansas"
ManEatingDonuts
Arkansas is French based and thus silent s and aw sound. Kansas is named after Kansa indian(native mericans) tribe.
LiswanS
Blame the French. Joking aside, it is because of the French; different pronunciation of the same tribe, I believe.
AwkwardKeming
Same reason colonel doesn't have an 'r' in it.
probablyabnormal
People from arkansas get unreasonably angry if you nonchalantly call their state "Ar-kansas"
KingDingus92
as an American.. this has never crossed my mind. Never even considered pronouncing it the way it's spelled.
drickanderson
Can confirm Ark-an-saw .. cannot explain however, as is the case with many english words and phrases that don't make sense.
ElevenAndCounting
I always said it Ar-Kan-Saw. Maybe it's from where I was born in the states
ElevenAndCounting
I always said it Ar-Kan-Saw. Maybe it's from where I was born in the states
SirMisterDudeBroPhD
from Wikipedia: The Kansa tribe of Native Americans are closely associated with the Sioux tribes of the Great Plains. The word "Arkansas"1/3
SirMisterDudeBroPhD
itself is a French pronunciation ("Arcansas") of a Quapaw (a related "Kaw" tribe) word, akakaze, meaning "land of downriver people" 2/3
SirMisterDudeBroPhD
or the Sioux word akakaze meaning "people of the south wind". So... fartknockers. Fun fact:folks wholive here R called Arkansawyers. 3/3
DarkNinja2462
French
vanella
Its name is of Siouan derivation from the language of the Osage denoting their related kin, the Quapaw Indians
Omni21
I wonder if they pronounce Illinois as Illi- noise
IndyAndyJones
The only explanation we need is "We are America" Same as why the metric system isn't the only system.
CaptainKing44
Hi, Arkansan here (ar-can-sen). Any questions?
SirMisterDudeBroPhD
from Wikipedia: The Kansa tribe of Native Americans are closely associated with the Sioux tribes of the Great Plains. The word "Arkansas"1/3
aselfdefeatingattitude
It's called Pirate Kansas.
vietarmis
Something something Louisiana purchase? (for real, it's different names for the same tribe via the French and English in the two cases.)
BeetsBearsBattlestarGallactica
I learned
whatevermanishowedup
robotzombies
What's really going to bake your noodle is how Mackinac is pronounced.
GuardsmanMiku
I'm going to pretend I didn't see this post and continue to call it ar-kansas cus annoying Americans is fun
TeddyBearLord
Get the fuck back to your own country you fuckin' communist
suckafvck
To be fair I wouldn't be annoyed I'd just think you were stupid
DVSBSTrD
It's the South.
Vidikron
Blame the Frogs and their silent 's.' And can confirm, I live in this wonderful, socially backward state. Damnit I love it here. WMFPS!
Stronghans
I say it like R-ken-saw
imophalblue
It just means we are pronouncing Kansas wrong.
notoriousplb
As a Brit I always thought the pronunciation of Arkansas was fucking stupid....then I remembered we have Worcestershire.
Noooooooooooooope
How is it pronounced? Worst-er-shire seems right but I doubt it is
notoriousplb
Wus-ter-sher is about the closest I can get it phonetically
xcelita
As an American, we don't learn the names of provinces/states in other countries.
firetothislife
No. The place with 'Gloucester' doesn't get to point funny-pronunciation fingers, ok?
blacksocksnevergetdirty
I live in Arkansas, and it is actually illegal to say the name incorrectly here.
Thefluffernutter
We should get a law like that in Illinois. The s is silent damn it!
theoneinthebushes
We are also technically "Arkansawyers." Or at least that's what my bf who's lived here his whole life says. I don't believe him.
danryawesome
Totally true
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SamArt53
No way! Say it ain't so.... I'm begging you
theworldlylie
Moved to Kansas from Kentucky and currently live there (here?). Can confirm. It drives me nuts. They also call lunch dinner...
handbananana
And in Arkansas it's pronounced I Arkansas. I lived in both states.
dieselpunk
This is true. A colleague and good friend of my dad is from Geuda Springs, Kansas, and he told us about this, among many other things.
TommyRottn
^this - very true
doucher
Lies
TeddyBearLord
The irony
GreedyJungle
Hey hey where do you think Kansas City is?
OliverMcDairyQueen
Arkham City sounds like what Arkansas City should sound like - if it existed
BudweiserLunchbox
Or Missouri City?
doucher
Mizzu-RAW and Kansas
KhalFrodo
I've known about Kansas City, MO for a while, but it wasn't until recently I discovered they were the SAME CITY on diff sides of the border
vanella
JUST LIKE ST LOUIS.....
vanella
Illinois/MO
Smasher12
Well it is in Kansas too you know
GreedyJungle
True but still considered as part of MO for some reason
Smasher12
The main city part of KC is in MO, but there is quite a bit in Kansas.
GreedyJungle
I know but it's still technically considered MO
VoidIncarnate
Yet UK has Norwich ("Norrich"), Gloucester ("Gloster"), Alnwick ("Anick"), etc.
robotzombies
Tottenham.
Icanfaptoeverything
wait, how it should be pronounced?
robotzombies
Mack-ih-naw
robotzombies
Mack-ih-naw
madetheaccountjustforyou
The fucking French love leaving letters off the end of words for no god-damned reason.
DiggerPlease
I don't think any English speaker has a right to jeer at any other language when it comes to spelling v pronunciation - ours is like a trap
madetheaccountjustforyou
Have you ever seen French? If there's any language we have the right to criticize, it's theirs.
DiggerPlease
English has completely contradictory laws, silent letters, homonyms with different pronunciations.
madetheaccountjustforyou
And the French leave sounds off their words or add them based on "does it sound pretty" and count by 20s.
littleasianninja
I'm probably wrong but I say ar. Kin. Saw. I'm from California and we have crap education tho.
LusciousLucius
It really doesn't matter. They sound virtually identical when said out loud. If you were calling it Ar-kin-sas, there would be an issue.
hcar
Better education than Arkansas probably
DaChronisseur
How long is the first syllable of the word "buddy" when you say it?
robotzombies
One syllable.
Troldann
I'm Californian. It's as short as I can make it.
DaChronisseur
No worries, b'uuuddy.
robotzombies
One syllable.
StormRodas
Try Nevada, the dead last ranked education in the entire United states. When I talk to people, I feel like an idiot.
TwoPeasOnePod
I thought Hawaii had that crown (used to live there)
StormRodas
Used to, Nevada killed that king to wear that title x_X
TwoPeasOnePod
Aw man! Sorry to hear that :(
firetothislife
I'm from Vegas. It's mostly dependant on the area of town. The schools I went to were mostly great.
StormRodas
2) to Utah, I was literal months back. I just couldn't keep up with anything that was there. Then came back to Vegas as the smart kid.
StormRodas
I went to Valley High School, then Shadow Edge High. The quality education was variable, but not very great. Hell, when I moved from here,
firetothislife
One of the best nursing schools in the country. I had no problem keeping up and thought my high school AP Chem was harder than college Chem
firetothislife
I went to Centennial, took a bunch of AP classes, got scholarships and went to the university of Illinois at Chicago for nursing school 1/2
firetothislife
One of the best nursing schools in the country. I had no problem keeping up and thought my high school AP Chem was harder than college Chem