• No1@aussie.zone
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    16 hours ago

    Seems to have deliberately taken the opposite path of anything British:

    • Drive on the wrong side of the road
    • The light and power switches are upside down
    • Weights & measures. Imperial? Ha!
    • Screw your English dictionary. Ima put z’s everywhere, drop the letter u and randomly pronounce words like buoy so you think there’s an animal in the water over there

    It kinda makes me laugh to think about it as just anti-British 🤣

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      8 hours ago

      yeah but America employs all the UK actors to teach us how to behave and think.

      If British customs haven’t rubbed off on America, can we not say the UK actors have not done a great job at promoting the UK?

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      16 hours ago
      • we invented the modern car, y’all are driving on the wrong side of the road
      • a switch is a switch, if you don’t like the direction it goes, just flip it over and put the cover back on, half the switches in my house go one way, and the other go the opposite way, some of them are even sideways.
      • y’all sank the ship that had the US copy of the metric standard on it, and also invented the imperial system in the first place.
      • if you look at the entomology, the US largely uses the original English pronunciation of things, it’s the British who have slowly changed their pronunciation over the centuries. We did have a guy who intentionally changed a bunch of the spelling, you are right about that.
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        15 hours ago

        y’all

        I’m not British. I just inherited mostly their system.

        TBH, i laugh about both.

        Eg the english language is a joke. Laugh? Larf? Laff?.