Actually, everything in American movies and TV shows is extremely realistic and accurately reflects real life. I learned this from Europeans, back when I was living in Europe. I was very grateful to them for explaining this to me; as an American, I am very stupid.
What are you doing here? You should be watching (or on) Jerry Springer.
In high school I was told seriously by a fellow student that the U.S.A. was “just a big desert”…
I swear to god I have never seen so much of one show as when I spent a few hours channel surfing in the UK; it was like one big Jerry Springer marathon, except that it was on several channels. It was a bit mortifying.
Isn’t there some kind of British version of Jerry Springer? Or are you all too tasteful and reserved?
The Jerremy Kyle show. Makes JS look like University Challenge.
Americans are so dumb, we need to be told not to use our hair dryers while sleeping, and that hand lotion is for external use only.
OTOH, I actually know a guy who burned himself while trying to use an iron on clothes he was wearing at the time. This guy was a court bailiff and presumably of moderate intelligence. The burn mark was pretty spectacular. I think I would have come up with a good lie as to how it happened.
You missed that we sue everything in sight also.
It’s right there in your last link about child beating, I don’t know how you could have missed it. I would head over with my lawyer to give you what for, but I can’t find my gun and don’t want to be attacked by the roving bands of dangerous heavily armed and drug addicted youths roaming our streets.
No, it’s fine, come on over. Just go with a teacher, so ff the youths give you any trouble, he can beat them, as teachers are wont to do.
Well, to be fair, our cops shoot everything that moves as well. Including other cops. And dogs. And, on very special occasions, combinations thereof.
I’m too busy wallowing in my own bathroom filth to have an opinion on this topic.
You sure the phrase was actually “vast wasteland”?
Are you sure he didn’t mean “just a big dessert”? Big portion sizes in the US, you know.
The same thing happened to [Atlanta Braves pitcher] John Smoltz.
I’ve found Europeans have an exaggerated sense of their command of irony, myself.