https://xkcd.com/2875/

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It wasn’t originally constitutionally required, but presidents who served two terms have traditionally followed George Washington’s example and gotten false teeth.

  • StorminNorman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    11 months ago

    What the fuck would you poms know about it? Like in the cricket, Australia has you beat. You’ve had 6 since 2000, we’ve had 8.

    • ThenThreeMore@startrek.websiteEnglish
      32·
      11 months ago

      I didn’t know it was a competition as to whose government shit the bed worse. I guess making it one has to do with the inferiority complex you get from knowing all your ancestors were criminals.

      • StorminNorman@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        Heh, my ancestors were english people who migrated in the last 80yrs, I’m closer to being one of you than I am a convict. And since when has anything our two countries has done not been a competition? Your angry reply kinda reinforces how tightly you poms all have those sticks up your arses though since you can’t recognise an obvious joke.

        • ThenThreeMore@startrek.websiteEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          since you can’t recognise an obvious joke.

          That clearly goes both ways.

          Maybe we’ve both got too used to dealing with yanks on the internet.

          • StorminNorman@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            I’ve always said that ours (and yours, cos whilst our two nations comedy is different, there’s a shit load of overlap) is too subtle for text communication!

            And yeah, fucking yanks online… I’ve had a few drinks and a little bit of weed, so excuse this rant, but yanks online are fucked. I’ve met plenty in Australia and on my travels (including when I travelled the US) in person. 99% of them were lovely and I could chat with them and have a beer. But online? They are fucked for the most part. And I know that’s a generalisation, and most of the online Americans are great, but those who aren’t? They are so bad that they ruin my opinion of the good ones so badly I don’t even remember the good interactions.