Questions For USians Who Know More About US Politics Than I Do

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I use the term 'yank' all the time. Nobody seems to take offence to it.

[Thumpalumpacus]

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.

Boru

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

/self-absorbed septic

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

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.  

Boru

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

/self-absorbed septic

If your cat has kittens in the oven, do you call them 'biscuits'?

Boru

[Thumpalumpacus]

Mayhap I do, Boru, mayhap I do.

Care for some cookies?

[mlmooney89]

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.

[Minimalist]

[Thumpalumpacus]

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.

[mlmooney89]

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

[Thumpalumpacus]

lol, when you go overseas, you'll be called a "yank", and you'll like it, young lady!

[The Grand Nudger]

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.