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RE: Questions For USians Who Know More About US Politics Than I Do
June 28, 2016 at 4:45 am
I use the term 'yank' all the time. Nobody seems to take offence to it.
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RE: Questions For USians Who Know More About US Politics Than I Do
June 28, 2016 at 4:47 am
(June 28, 2016 at 4:38 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Sidebar: My use of the term 'USians' isn't meant to be offensive, it is a shorthand I adopted a long time ago for 'US citizens'. I used to use the term 'Yanks' for people from the US, but that made crowds of you spin out of control for some unfathomable reason (kidding - I fathom it). I dislike the term 'Americans', since most USians I talk to don't speak Cherokee.

And Thump? 'Limey' is RIGHT OUT, GET IT?? Mick, Paddy, bog-trotter, muck savage, pot-licker, shant, SID, turf-cutter, taig or wic I can deal with. But call me 'limey' one more time, and I'll arrange to have someone visit you in the small hours and put a ferret up your jumper. Wink

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RE: Questions For USians Who Know More About US Politics Than I Do
June 28, 2016 at 4:57 am
(June 28, 2016 at 4:47 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:
(June 28, 2016 at 4:38 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Sidebar:  My use of the term 'USians' isn't meant to be offensive, it is a shorthand I adopted a long time ago for 'US citizens'.  I used to use the term 'Yanks' for people from the US, but that made crowds of you spin out of control for some unfathomable reason (kidding - I fathom it).  I dislike the term 'Americans', since most USians I talk to don't speak Cherokee.  

And Thump?  'Limey' is RIGHT OUT, GET IT??  Mick, Paddy, bog-trotter, muck savage, pot-licker, shant, SID, turf-cutter, taig or wic I can deal with.  But call me 'limey' one more time, and I'll arrange to have someone visit you in the small hours and put a ferret up your jumper.  Wink

Boru

Meh, you lived on an island off'n Europe, that's good enough for me.

/self-absorbed septic

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RE: Questions For USians Who Know More About US Politics Than I Do
June 28, 2016 at 5:05 am
Mayhap I do, Boru, mayhap I do.

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RE: Questions For USians Who Know More About US Politics Than I Do
June 28, 2016 at 10:52 am
Yank doesn't work either... the whole southern population would be in an uproar. The American Civil War was Yankee Vs Confederate and even over 150 years later a southerner would blow a gasket if called a yankee. When we get irritated at northerners our go to insult is 'the damn yankee'. I'm just very very particular when it comes to names. People should be addressed how they wish to be and that is important to me.
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RE: Questions For USians Who Know More About US Politics Than I Do
June 28, 2016 at 11:45 am (This post was last modified: June 28, 2016 at 11:46 am by Minimalist.)
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June 28, 2016 at 11:58 am
(June 28, 2016 at 10:52 am)mlmooney89 Wrote: Yank doesn't work either... the whole southern population would be in an uproar.

Some would. Others of us, especially those of us who have traveled or lived abroad, not so much.

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RE: Questions For USians Who Know More About US Politics Than I Do
June 28, 2016 at 12:11 pm
I have lived over seas being an army brat and I detest the reason the south caused the civil war but I still ain't gunna be called a yankee. I prefer southern belle. lol not that I deserve that title :p
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June 28, 2016 at 12:31 pm
lol, when you go overseas, you'll be called a "yank", and you'll like it, young lady!

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RE: Questions For USians Who Know More About US Politics Than I Do
June 28, 2016 at 2:08 pm
That's the thing about names other people give you - at some point you just make them your own.  Cracker, redneck, hillbilly - that's all me.  Yankees....are folks from the NE US, at least that's what we hicks call em.
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