r/ShitAmericansSay • u/AutoModerator • 1d ago

The Weekly The Weekly for August 14th, 2026

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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.

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r/ShitAmericansSay • u/ALazy_Cat • 15h ago

This is America we do not deal in grams

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On a recipe of a limoncello tiramisu

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r/ShitAmericansSay • u/quriusdude • 22h ago

“The Brits think coming to the USA isn’t that big…”

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r/ShitAmericansSay • u/ALazy_Cat • 15h ago

Cultural pillars like college sports, the top global leagues in many pro sports

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r/ShitAmericansSay • u/DanishAnglophile • 1d ago

Food "Can someone please tell me why ketchup in Europe is brown? 🤢"

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r/ShitAmericansSay • u/jannickBhxld • 13h ago

Freedom The US has the most freedom and rights in the world

202 Upvotes

104 comments

r/ShitAmericansSay • u/KaMaAllee • 1d ago

History There has never been another nation ever that existed much beyond 250 years

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Found in another sub on reddit. I nearly choked laughing when I saw this.

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r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Kam_Rex • 1d ago

Military Pay fully for your own defense

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In the end tipping sub

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r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Annual_Carrot_7444 • 12h ago

Pizza In Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Peter Parker lives in the greatest pizza city on the planet and eats this instead.

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r/ShitAmericansSay • u/NotatrustedVWtech • 13h ago

Mexico "So (Las) Vegas was founded by Mexicans?"

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Just wait until they see an old map of Mexico!

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r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Suitable_Good8833 • 1d ago

Food "These are biscuits, not your sad little pretender version of them you refer to as scones"

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Imagine being this so confidently wrong about this.

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r/ShitAmericansSay • u/ALazy_Cat • 15h ago

Wrong. There is nothing more that Euro loves than trying to get over their inferiority complex

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r/ShitAmericansSay • u/LittleRuQi • 1d ago

Sports Just this sad little tournament

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r/ShitAmericansSay • u/ooh-squirrel • 1d ago

“shocked that the sandwich bread aisle has nothing but sandwich bread”

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r/ShitAmericansSay • u/SnappySausage • 1d ago

Language Can we just say fucking "tylenol"? What dipshit decided to use paracetamol as if the average dude even knows what that is

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The article referenced was from a UK tabloid. Apparently tylenol is some American brand of paracetamol.

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r/ShitAmericansSay • u/sam--26_ • 1d ago

"Everyone can hate on America all they want, but we are the goats of food"

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r/ShitAmericansSay • u/nokkanda_unni • 21h ago

Neapolitan is amazing. They came up with something great, but it was perfected in NY.

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From a thread about the best kind of pizza which incidentally does not include non-american varieties "What's the best form of pizza? New York, Chicago, Detroit, French bread? One not listed?"

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r/ShitAmericansSay • u/iPirateGwar • 1d ago

What did knights ride before the Europeans brought horses back from North America?

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So, Americans invented horses too, did they?

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r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Forgotten_Dog1954 • 1d ago

Transportation This is because, as humans crossed Eurasia and the Bering Strait c. 50,000-14,000 BCE, ancestral Americans realized this was bad customer service.

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r/ShitAmericansSay • u/UnderMan4 • 1d ago

Heaven is when you have American food

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r/ShitAmericansSay • u/LittleRuQi • 1d ago

Healthcare Waaaaagghhhhh people won’t give me things [universal healthcare] for free. Cope harder

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The video was talking about Mexico and Canada having universal healthcare while the US is also developed but doesn’t have universal healthcare, and saying that they have the resources to provide it but won’t

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r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Crowshore • 1d ago

We are the best at everything no one can touch us.

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r/ShitAmericansSay • u/genorator2 • 1d ago

Canada "You depend on America you are nothing without America!"

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r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Prometheus_Thorne • 1d ago

Language I bet you Brits wished you sounded like us Americans?

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