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When I was in Ireland last summer I accidentally took too much food and didn't want to piss off our hosts (I got nauseated out of where) so I took it back to the room and put it in the drawer in the bedside table and was so worried they would see it while cleaning and think I was stealing by taking too much at breakfast. My companion told me it was okay and that I could explain it away by saying I'm an American and having a bedside sandwich is our culture.
When I saw the desk gun, my only thought was that it was going to be featured eventually due to Chekhov's Gun.
British show with a desk gun only reminds me of The IT Crowd
I wonder if it's loaded.
anybody have examples of the opposite? American hollywood movies/shows that nonchalantly presented something common in the USA, but was jarring when you watched it?
In this sci-fi film with Tom cruise's clones that are some kind of watchmen over the planet, there's a flashback scene. Tom cruise is reminded of his human life before the cloning because he sees an American gridiron football goal.
That scene immediately broke my immersion and I was like, yeah that's Hollywood, it's a film by Americans. I was no longer in the story.
The same happened to me with other forms of media. There's a song that would translate to "favourite person" and has a line "even the traffic jam on the A2 is quickly over when I'm with you". But I never use the A2. It's at the other end of the country. That made me stumble when I listened to it the first time.
A teacher needing to sell meth to pay for his cancer treatment.
Tbf he didn't have to do that.
He liked it and was good at it (debatable)
Breaking indoor walls so damn easily, thought it was a Hollywood thing like exploding cars, endless mags etc. Took me a while to get that such thin walls are just common in the US
They make them out of literal cardboard now because drywall is too expensive. I wish I was joking. Look up cyfy on YouTube, he's a home inspector in Arizona and some of the million dollar+ homes he inspects are actual temu quality shitholes from big name builders.
Pledge of allegiance in school is quite unusual.
And how you have flags on everything, including outside people's houses.
"Central air" is a term I only learned the meaning of recently, but American TV assumes everyone knows what it is. Which is fair, if you all have it. Same with the hand blenders you have in your kitchen sinks.
When I was in public elementary school we had old textbooks and one of them was trying to talk shit about the Soviets by saying that their educational system was creating robotic, unemotional children who obeyed instructions unquestioningly. They juxtaposed a picture of Soviet students standing uniformly with a picture of American students all doing different things. I questioned it at the time and said if they took a picture of us doing the pledge it would look the same as the commies. I sound 100 years old but this was only 20 years ago.
Central air and garbage disposals are amazing and should be the norm
Someone didn’t grow up in the Cold War era. They drilled that shit and followed it up with “duck and cover” in case the Soviets nuked us. As if your desk provided cover from the nuclear holocaust.
ATLA ironically may have desensitised me to the pledge thing by trying to show it as a creepy thing in the Fire Nation school. Instead, it just became part of the narrative flow, which was somewhat opposite the intent.
Then again, I've probably come to associate it with singing shitty school songs and national anthems in Australia anyway.
a hand blender in my sink? TF?
Are you referring to a garbage disposer?
On the pledge, some of us know.
Hollywood celebrities and writers all have "Central Air". The rest of us know what it is, but we don't all have it.
every american police movie
To be fair, part of my desensitization is from the (100% accurate documentary) Hot Fuzz. Maybe they were just establishing that Watson is a farmer... or a farmer's mum.
Mr. Webley, I trust you have a license for that firearm?
He does for this one
I would have just assumed it was from his time in the army, since, you know... Watson was in the army. And also the fact he is a detective's assistant that got into scraps with bad guys frequently.
I mean it is, but you're very much not allowed to keep your gun after you leave. (I'm assuming OP is referring to "Sherlock", the modern-day BBC adaptation)
Yeah but even then that's one of the seemingly universal jokes about the military, that being folks smuggling out their service weapons. Great grandad's Colt/ Makarov/ Webley/ Beretta/ Luger/ et cetera. Pretty sure I've heard stories of soldiers jacking artillery back in the 1700s for similar reasons, have folks use and take care of a piece of equipment and they'll probably try to keep it forever, hell you can still find WW2 era junk that got smuggled out for basically that reason.
Suicidality?
It's a mortal kombat fatality, except you get yourself on accident by inputting the wrong button sequence.