When I think of your sun-drenched beaches, your sporting prowess, your gorgeous women, your wide range of cuisine and your irresistible soaps, I get so jealous that I laugh at your ‘whinging’ misfortune!
What US-bias there is doesn’t worry or upset me at all. And I’ve found that the host country Dopers are very indulgent when it comes to my anglo-oriented spelling.
The worst inconvenience for me is the time difference.
Sounds like Wayne Rooney.
Not that I know of. I’d certainly never heard of it before arriving at this board from a link on t’internet.
It was thought at one point that if you did not have the dot com your site would not be taken seriously , or even visited.
Thats because they were american, some genius’s (sarcasm) thought that they would clean up with NBC, CBS, ABC etc. by having the TV extension so they reserved a bunch of domains and paid a bunch of money to the island expecting to clean up.
What ever happened I never did hear till you mentioned it.
Declan
<minor hijack> But have you ever in your life refered to yourself as “an American” rather than Canadian? I doubt it happens often since there’s a more specific term for citizens of your country. Nothing else in our country’s name is singular enough to derive a name for the people from because Mexicans could also claim to be from “the US” because they’re The United States of Mexico. Of course like us they seem to think USians sounds too awkward, so neither uses it. </minor hijack>
Doesn’t faze me in the least.
What does bother me though is the American inability to spell “colour” and similar words correctly.
Oh and their refusal to bow to Brenda and don’t get me started on football
It doesn’t bother me… but I do find it inconvenient that your lot haven’t converted to metric yet, as it catches me out every time. (The threads on weight loss make my brain hurt.)
Seriously, convert to metric! There’s any number of advantages!
You’ll immediately:
- lose about half your weight, and
- be driving almost twice as fast.
What’s not to love? 
PS: While you’re at it, would it *kill *you guys to pronounce the ‘h’ in ‘herb’? I find American accents quite pleasant on the whole, but when you say ‘urb’, it makes me twitch.
Thats why we have to “dumb down” our foreign posts so that we catch their interest
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Sounds like Wayne Rooney.
Surely you mean Joey Barton 
Just as an interesting aside - I’m a very active member on a Canadian-owned and dominated message board. I get some of the same treatment others have mentioned, but from a Canada-dominant perspective when discussing laws, customs, locations, etc. They also have a rule that measurements be in metric so I’ve found a handy on-line converter so I don’t provoke their ire. I still use US spellings, because if I attempted to do otherwise I’d probably screw it up anyhow and at least they can understand my native dialect, just as I can understand the spellings of the Canadians, UK folks, New Zealanders, Aussies, etc.
Once I get my French back into shape I’m going to have a go at French boards. I can still read the language, and I find their very different perspective interesting (if sometimes infuriating), but because of a quarter-century of disuse I can’t really communicate in French anymore. And that’s sad. 
The SDMB is American owned and dominated, but we could STILL be a little more sensitive about locations. Even those of us in the US still have issues since, as others have pointed out, there is quite a variation in laws and customs in this one country.
Makes me cringe, similarly. And, perhaps ironically, it’s like a French pronunciation too, dropping the aitch.
But otherwise I enjoy the American slant, even if it probably gives me a completely deluded impression of the USA. But I prefer that to the impression of America I get from the mass media generally…
>all citizens of North and South America are Americans
As a practical matter, if it isn’t “American”, what is the word for a citizen of the United States of America? My family has been here for 14 generations and I still haven’t heard it.
Perhaps “American” can be taken to mean a person from the Americas, meaning North America and South America. But I’d expect more to hear of North Americans, South Americans, Europeans, Africans, Asians, Australians, and maybe even Antarcticans, when referring to people by their continents.
Are we of the US to be called United Statesians? Statesmen? USians? Columbians? (Note that the USA was historically also sometimes called Columbia, and our capital city is still called the District of Columbia.)
In Russian, the word for us sounds like Americantsi. Is there confusion there?
is there anybody else here from the Americas but outside the USA who thinks people from the USA are misappropriating the term “Americans” from them?
Another for “not bothered” - as many have said it’s a US site predominated by US people. I’m glad I’m not the only person, though, who is irked profoundly by the abuse of the location field in a way which isn’t informative.
Hmm… if I was to tell one of the nice folk at a border crossing that I am a American they might wonder about me producing Canadian ID!
Yes, in a literal sense citizens of North, Central, and South America could be called Americans but in common usage American is invariably taken to mean pertaining to the United States of America.
What adjective would you prefer for something pertaining to the USA?
Jimm, that was a beautiful post. I agree.
I don’t change anything I write to help non-uk people and I wouldn’t ask anyone else to do the same.
I might ask for clarification, but I’m more likely to search google or wikipedia if I get confused.
Thank you, I appreciate that.
I might’ve said Kieron Dyer, except he was apparently a nasty little shite even at primary school. My source being someone in the year below, who wasn’t good at football.
No, the fact this message board is US-oriented doesn’t bother me, and I find that most American members are quite open to the presence of international members. Also it keeps me up to speed with what happens in the US.
What bothers me a little is when Canadians on the SDMB talk about Canadian culture, and especially about “things every Canadian knows”, and I don’t really know what they’re talking about since they’re specifically referring to English Canadian culture. There are a few members who do that.
What message board is this? I’d like to see it. You can PM me if you want.
I must warn you - they have a no-holds-barred rough-and-tumble debating style that can make the SDMB BBQ Pit look tame. Please do read the rules before wading into the deep end.
Thanks. I see it’s mostly a science fiction board, with some off-topic forums, which is less what I’m looking for. I’d be curious to hear about Canadian general-purpose or political boards. If someone knows such a thing, you may contact me.