r/ShitAmericansSay • u/AutoModerator • 1d ago

The Weekly The Weekly for 29 August 2025

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This is a weekly anything goes thread to chat. Discussions about life, Reddit and anything else are all allowed here. You may also discuss, and link to, things you saw from the low-hanging fruit (LHF) list.

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r/ShitAmericansSay • u/UncleSlacky • Jul 17 '22

📢 MOD ANNOUNCEMENT REMINDER - DO NOT COMMENT IN POSTED THREADS. This is a form of brigading (which has caused subs to be banned in the past) and offenders will be permanently banned.

548 Upvotes

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r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Vegetable-Vehicle-33 • 6h ago

Per capita “Meaning the UK is significantly more dangerous”

1.1k Upvotes

112 comments

r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Sniper_96_ • 3h ago

“America pays for your military we need to stop paying that asap”

304 Upvotes

On a post on the Asktheworld sub on which country people wish their country wasn’t allies with.

90 comments

r/ShitAmericansSay • u/xfadingstarx • 2h ago

Canada "Canadians tend to be more white and less multicultural than Oklahomans"

131 Upvotes

Context: FB group making fun of how people review ethnic foods.

The irony: this particular restaurant they're talking about is located in the only Chinese majority city outside of Asia.

51 comments

r/ShitAmericansSay • u/jazz4 • 10h ago

“Europeans live in small apartments or multi-generational homes”

331 Upvotes

OP was complaining about European waiters taking too long to get the bill. American commenter thinks it’s because restaurants are more luxurious than Europeans homes.

86 comments

r/ShitAmericansSay • u/BassesBest • 17h ago

Imperialism "We didn't have to share the Pacific with other victors of WW2 like we shared Europe"

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944 Upvotes

Found a crop of them here

310 comments

r/ShitAmericansSay • u/odsania • 21h ago

Language "Obliterate anyone who spells "color" with a u"

1.8k Upvotes

182 comments

r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Shot_Inflation1322 • 10h ago

"We allow Britain to exist"

158 Upvotes

55 comments

r/ShitAmericansSay • u/InternationalBat1838 • 1d ago

Food This is why America is the number 1 country in the United States. Let's gooo baby!

1.9k Upvotes

214 comments

r/ShitAmericansSay • u/CaptBlue3082 • 1d ago

meanwhile i have to travel 1000 miles

541 Upvotes

200 comments

r/ShitAmericansSay • u/TeacupUmbrella • 1d ago

Food Americans invented apple pie, and also saved it from being bad British food

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2.0k Upvotes

Context: a post about how the earliest apple pie recipe we have from England had no sugar in it (since it's from the 1300s) and so they sweetened it with other fruits and such.

Yep, America invented apple pie like 400 years before America even existed, and also save it from being bad British food.

353 comments

r/ShitAmericansSay • u/NobodyPrime8 • 1d ago

Imperial units TF is a KG anyways

1.0k Upvotes

94 comments

r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Library_Easy • 1d ago

blindly trusting the goverment to take out exactly what they need seems like a dystopian nightmare

618 Upvotes

160 comments

r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Ambitious-Sink2725 • 1d ago

"Across state lines"

174 Upvotes

38 comments

r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Wasted-Instruction • 1d ago

Politics "Look at Serbia? Isn't that country the size of our states?"

311 Upvotes

125 comments

r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Socmel_ • 1d ago

Exceptionalism "America is where everyone wants to be"

341 Upvotes

97 comments

r/ShitAmericansSay • u/WindInc • 1d ago

California 1600s New Netherlands Colony Denmark mtDNA descendent

217 Upvotes

68 comments

r/ShitAmericansSay • u/woodhead2011 • 1d ago

Shut up ya dolt. Americans invented social media. We also SAVED ALL OF EUROPE from speaking German.

686 Upvotes

255 comments

r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Socmel_ • 2d ago

Video "Europeans don't vibe with us...because we cut the line"

3.6k Upvotes

587 comments

r/ShitAmericansSay • u/BackPackProtector • 1d ago

“Without America the West is a joke”

340 Upvotes

Under a video showing economic growth of european and asian countries throughout the year

51 comments

r/ShitAmericansSay • u/ALazy_Cat • 2d ago

Healthcare Hospitals are businesses. Their job is to attract high paying clients

9.0k Upvotes

997 comments

r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Colossus823 • 2d ago

Inventions It is more or less universally acknowledged that the Internet is, predominantly, an American innovation, built by American citizens, residents and companies

459 Upvotes

Never mind the Brit and Belgian who was pivotal to the WWW.

128 comments

r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Olivier1012 • 2d ago

Now have the US take away their funding for Europe and recalculate

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1.9k Upvotes

It saddens me to know this is how they view other countries (sad for them).

415 comments

r/ShitAmericansSay • u/CommercialYam53 • 2d ago

Food Nothing in Europe is better

492 Upvotes

76 comments

r/ShitAmericansSay • u/woodhead2011 • 2d ago

Finland enjoyed the protection of the American nuclear deturance, which we paid for, before & now that you've finally joined NATO! This is why the Soviet's didn't take all of Finland with their millions of troops & superior military. You'd be speaking Russian without US. FACT. 🤡

419 Upvotes

152 comments

r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Takenfern • 2d ago

Article "Europeans also need us to win wars"

646 Upvotes

213 comments

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