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minus-squareFistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down5·edit-27 days agoNow convince a jury of stupid, ignorant yanks of that. Edit: I live in Australia To us, you’re all “Seppos” Septic-Tank>Yank
minus-squareDrusas@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down3·7 days agoYanks are from the northeast, which is generally fiscally conservative and socially progressive.
minus-squarecatloaf@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down3·edit-27 days agoThere are no Yanks in Illinois. That’s the Midwest. We’re in the Northeast (though ignorance is not regional).
minus-squareFistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down1·7 days agoI live in Australia, I was unaware of your regional differences with that word! We use it to describe all of you
minus-squareHobbes_Dent@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down2·7 days agoCanada too. Y’all down there in Red White and Stupid land can complain all you want about “yanks” meaning all the US considering you’ve co-opted “American” to mean the same thing.
minus-squareSreudianFlip@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down3·7 days agoThey don’t understand that we mean it like “Yanqui”, as in, imperialists.
Now convince a jury of stupid, ignorant yanks of that.
Edit: I live in Australia
To us, you’re all “Seppos”
Septic-Tank>Yank
Yanks are from the northeast, which is generally fiscally conservative and socially progressive.
There are no Yanks in Illinois. That’s the Midwest. We’re in the Northeast (though ignorance is not regional).
I live in Australia,
I was unaware of your regional differences with that word!
We use it to describe all of you
Canada too.
Y’all down there in Red White and Stupid land can complain all you want about “yanks” meaning all the US considering you’ve co-opted “American” to mean the same thing.
They don’t understand that we mean it like “Yanqui”, as in, imperialists.