Well, amongst the English-speaking World the US does have more population than all of the others combined (even including South Africa’s 60 million people) so it’s kinda undertandable that in an English-language forum sooner or later an American will come and start talking about the stuff within their own life experience.
That said, having lived in Britain for over a decade, I for one loved the joke :)
Well, this was funny enough to end up in the All feed of other instances, so I bet a lot of people didn’t even notice it was posted in a UK instance (I certainly didn’t).
As for the downvotes, it’s probably due to pretty much the same reason as why as time goes by the probability of an American making a comment talking about America on a post in an English-language forum about a place other than America, becomes 100%, as I explained above: basically as the former probability becomes 100%, so does the probability that somebody by now well and trully fed up with such posts by Americans pops-up and starts downvoting anything in the least way seeming to justify it, since the two are correlated.
Me: Happy to see a meme referencing a town 20 mins from me (Stockport)
This guy: Brings it back to America.
In fairness, it’s probably a psychological defence mechanism put in place to prevent the mention of St*ckport causing emotional damage.
USA-Defaultism is one hell of a drug, very popular due to the opioid epidemic.
I understand why they do it. After all, they do dominate western media and internet so to them it is the majority of content they see.
Edit: Although, this is feddit.uk, but again I often forget to check where I am.
You can just ignore that bit and focus on the part that sticks it to those damn Stopfordians!
As a Manc my major beef is with the Scouse.
Where you from for this Stockport hate?
I don’t hate Stockport except for comedy purposes. I had a nice day out there a month or two back and it’s got a lot going for it.
Well you aren’t going to like my answer then…
Haha what are the odds.
Much the same as you it’s only playful hate. We got love for any northern town.
Plus 0161 > 0151 😆
My Mum was from Manchester, so it makes things complicated. It’s much easier to hate Southerners.
Wait until Preston hears about this kind of argument!
Well, amongst the English-speaking World the US does have more population than all of the others combined (even including South Africa’s 60 million people) so it’s kinda undertandable that in an English-language forum sooner or later an American will come and start talking about the stuff within their own life experience.
That said, having lived in Britain for over a decade, I for one loved the joke :)
I did reference this in another comment further down.
I don’t blame Americans for it. It’s natural. Even though it’s a UK instance, we don’t always check where we are
Edit: Not sure why you being downvoted for this.
Well, this was funny enough to end up in the All feed of other instances, so I bet a lot of people didn’t even notice it was posted in a UK instance (I certainly didn’t).
As for the downvotes, it’s probably due to pretty much the same reason as why as time goes by the probability of an American making a comment talking about America on a post in an English-language forum about a place other than America, becomes 100%, as I explained above: basically as the former probability becomes 100%, so does the probability that somebody by now well and trully fed up with such posts by Americans pops-up and starts downvoting anything in the least way seeming to justify it, since the two are correlated.
It’s only natural ;)