Just American things

[u/Quenki]

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[u/Blue_Waffle_Brunch]

I don't think I've ever heard someone say waste paper basket. It's just the garbage.

[u/mamamackmusic → u/Blue_Waffle_Brunch]

Yeah he would have made a more effective point by using "trash can"

[u/addiktion → u/mamamackmusic]

Yeah, I was like, where the heck's the 'trash can' reference. No one in America I've ever encountered said waste paper basket.

[u/PhantomOyster → u/addiktion]

It's the "polite," formal phrase. Sort of like "toilet tissue." It's toilet paper unless it's being offered to you by one of those bathroom attendants in a fancy hotel or something. I've heard "waste paper basket" a few times, but it's not something most people are saying in casual conversation.

[u/addiktion → u/PhantomOyster]

When I hear it I think about a bin specific to paper which certainly exists in certain businesses I've been too who are concerned about recycling the paper, but more generally 'trash can' is what most will encounter of course in their homes.

[u/Jason-Smith168498 → u/mamamackmusic]

trash can maps to waste bin too easily and that undermines his premise with reality

[u/Ugly4merican → u/mamamackmusic]

Or "waste basket". Lost me on that one but he got me back with "horseback riding."

[u/capt1nsain0 → u/Blue_Waffle_Brunch]

https://giphy.com/gifs/42CGElDAprG3C
It’s called garbage day not waste paper basket day.

[u/i_reddit_it → u/Blue_Waffle_Brunch]

I thought you guys say "Trash" no?

[u/nanotothemoon → u/i_reddit_it]

Trash or garbage is most common for sure.

[u/i_reddit_it → u/nanotothemoon]

I see, we would generally say "Rubbish" and "Rubbish bin".

[u/ThisOnly300 → u/i_reddit_it]

That seems much closer to the point of the joke…

[u/NOTcreative- → u/i_reddit_it]

We use bin too in different context. Like recycling bin. Same thing with pavement. It's the material and isn't limited to side walks

[u/NeighboringOak → u/i_reddit_it]

Depends on where in the US you are. It's a big place. Some say trash some garbage. Some say soda and some say pop. There's quite a few of these funny little things that for some reason became more popular depending on region.

[u/Bureaucratic_Dick → u/NeighboringOak]

I’ve lived in multiple parts of the US, served in the Marines with people from every part of the country, and never in my life heard anyone call it a “waste paper basket”.

[u/dtgunslinger99 → u/Bureaucratic_Dick]

that's more generational. older people 100% say waste paper basket in nys and pa. some parts of mass, too.

[u/melcolnik → u/i_reddit_it]

Yes. It’s a trash can

[u/JungleBoyJeremy → u/melcolnik]

https://giphy.com/gifs/JPIk3a6VHjQ12GnPwZ

[u/Blue_Waffle_Brunch → u/i_reddit_it]

Yah, trash, too.

[u/Bureaucratic_Dick → u/Blue_Waffle_Brunch]

Same with glasses. No one ever says, “hang on let me grab my eyeglasses”

[u/Loveable_Hemorrhoid → u/Bureaucratic_Dick]

It also depends on context.. like if I’m having a drink at a sight-challenged friend’s place but their wine glasses are spotty, so I tell them to wash their glasses

[u/213737isPrime → u/Bureaucratic_Dick]

That would be a spectacle.

[u/Nuffsaid98 → u/Bureaucratic_Dick]

Are those like seeing eye glasses?

[u/FloopsFooglies → u/Blue_Waffle_Brunch]

Garbage. Trash. Trash can. Literally no one says "waste paper basket"

[u/isuxirl → u/Blue_Waffle_Brunch]

Or just "trash".

[u/RoyalYing → u/Blue_Waffle_Brunch]

My grandma is the only person I ever heard say waste paper basket. Like girl it's just trash, you're not in a 1950s office drama.

[u/caterham09 → u/Blue_Waffle_Brunch]

My Grandma says waste paper basket

[u/PoorMinorities → u/Blue_Waffle_Brunch]

And people call eyeglasses “glasses” 90% of the time unless they specifically need to be specific. But oh don’t let the truth get in the way of an incredibly unfunny joke repeated 10 times.

[u/EarthboundMoss → u/PoorMinorities]

I don't think I've ever even heard anyone ever say eyeglasses before, pavement is a different word from sidewalk (pavement can be just a square of concrete) and no one ever says Waste Paper basket

[u/DarthChefDad → u/EarthboundMoss]

I think mostly in the US, when I hear people using pavement, they're using it to refer to the building material, using it as a synonym for concrete, than the location you walk.

[u/Glum-Birthday-1496 → u/Blue_Waffle_Brunch]

“Waste paper basket” is virtually out of use because we recycle paper now, but it isn’t or wasn’t originally the same as trash or garbage. It’s for clean trash, ie the small bin in your office. I still hear it sometimes, so it might be a regional thing.

[u/RezLovesPez → u/Blue_Waffle_Brunch]

Yeah. Maybe trash can, but that’s about as specific as it gets. We don’t even put paper in it anymore.

[u/Different_Rip8470 → u/Blue_Waffle_Brunch]

My more rurally raised grandparents did 😂

[u/Awes12 → u/Blue_Waffle_Brunch]

Or the trash

[u/Electrical_Shock359 → u/Blue_Waffle_Brunch]

I think what he is talking about I would refer to as recycling or recycling bin. Extra specificity isn’t the default, we use different amounts of it as needed or interchangeably sometimes. Some though just make sense like side walk refers specifically to the path along the side of the road(possibly being specific a type of pavement) whereas pavement would be a material or type of surface and not necessarily next to a road.

[u/HumanContract → u/Blue_Waffle_Brunch]

Isn't it recycle bin? I'm confused by waste paper basket lol he's setting his ppl up for failure. He could've used thongs vs flip-flops to specify thongs for your feet vs your arse

[u/ExpressThisBubbles]

Isnt Racket ball and Squash two different sports....?

[u/NoStupidQsExist → u/ExpressThisBubbles]

idk why you’re being downvoted, but yeah they are. different courts and different rules

[u/uatme → u/NoStupidQsExist]

Different balls

[u/guitar_vigilante → u/uatme]

Believe it or not, different racquets too.

[u/maidentaiwan → u/ExpressThisBubbles]

two entirely different sports in every aspect.

old boy needed to do a little bit more research before rolling this bit out.

[u/Eddieandtheblues → u/maidentaiwan]

In 2016, World Squash Federation began to 'rebrand' racketball as Squash 57, the 57 referring to the diameter of the ball in millimeters, in order to emphasize both its membership of the 'squash rackets' family

[u/LetsGoRed → u/maidentaiwan]

Why research when he can just make shit up for cheap laughs?

[u/Riyeko → u/ExpressThisBubbles]

Also, squash is a veggie you eat too lol

[u/ComfortableCicada69 → u/ExpressThisBubbles]

Yes.

[u/ohnothem00ps]

I mean, I get the overall sentiment, but squash and racquetball are two different sports

[u/cdridge → u/ohnothem00ps]

Yes, racquetball and squash use the same court but these sports use different racquets and balls.

As an American who likes British humor, this guy is not funny.

[u/maidentaiwan → u/cdridge]

they actually don't even use the same court. if you go to a proper racquet club, they'll have distinct courts for squash and racquetball. different dimensions, features, and even slightly different surfaces.

[u/Manymarbles → u/cdridge]

They use different courts!

Squash has a metal bottom that juts out in the front where you cant hit the ball and weird shaped walls. Raquetball is basically just a rectangle box, where you have to hit it close to the bottom.

[u/_Bren10_ → u/ohnothem00ps]

And pavement is a general term. A driveway can be considered pavement, the street can be considered pavement. A sidewalk is a specific type of pavement. I assume we use it more generally because we are a more car-based society.

[u/captain_croco → u/_Bren10_]

I wondered if it had something to do with streets being cobblestone when they began to pave walking paths next to them.

So to them pavement kept its meaning as the paved walkway when paved roads became the norm.

Pure conjecture. Also this comedian gave me V for Vendetta vibes for some reason.

[u/TheShredder9]

Slightly disappointed he didn't say Autumm and Fall, because leaves fall down.

[u/ZoneEducational6936 → u/TheShredder9]

Well, they use spring which refers to the leaves “springing” forth. And fall does in fact refer to those same leaves “falling” down. It makes sense to use both.  It doesn’t make sense to use spring but not fall honestly. 

[u/BenRod88 → u/TheShredder9]

I think he does in one of his shows

[u/Lord_Kromdar]

Ive never seen an American refer to a trash can as a waste paper basket in my life.

[u/farfetched22 → u/Lord_Kromdar]

Also someone saying "eyeglasses" is pretty rare. They're glasses.

He's spot on about horseback riding though.

[u/Proper-Evening9754 → u/Lord_Kromdar]

It's good for a pun.

[u/Nemisis_007]

Is it bad that I didn't realise this clip was ancient until I saw One Direction? Lmao.

[u/farfetched22 → u/Nemisis_007]

One Direction being labeled "ancient" has ruined my day.

[u/blahnlahblah0213]

The one that I find funny is that we say tuna fish sandwich, or a can of tuna fish. Like, is there something else besides fish that is tuna?

[u/ughlump → u/blahnlahblah0213]

There are some differences. You can tune a piano but you can’t tune a fish.

[u/djfdhigkgfIaruflg → u/ughlump]

But you can tune a bass

https://giphy.com/gifs/kTZBUjdRlZB3G

[u/Geena_irixican → u/blahnlahblah0213]

There is a reason we call it tuna fish! Way back when they first started canning it back in the olden days, they wanted to discern it from tuna (the fruit of the cactus). It just kind of stuck (this is a cactus joke. You should laugh).

(Edit, I typed distracted, mistakes were made, now there fewer)

[u/Neither_Internal_261 → u/blahnlahblah0213]

https://giphy.com/gifs/GQL4fO9rfEQHsjMrkA

Ask her

[u/Greekklitoris → u/blahnlahblah0213]

Tuna flavored sandwich

[u/Snoo_67548]

I have never heard any of these other than sidewalk.

[u/Biggle_fuzz → u/Snoo_67548]

Sidewalk also just makes more sense. Wait until the British find out roads are also paved, therefore pavement.

[u/Irish618 → u/Biggle_fuzz]

Thats literally why the word sidewalk was invented. To describe a walkway that ran alongside the pavement, I.e., the road. Its the "walkway" to the "side" of the pavement.

[u/addiktion → u/Irish618]

I very much appreciate the explicitness. I feel like if I were to ever end up in Europe I'd be completely confused when one word can have many more meanings and I then have to mentally understand the context in that moment a lot more.

[u/Zirox__ → u/Irish618]

Which in turn is exactly the point he’s making.

[u/Irish618 → u/Zirox__]

Yea, and my point is that his point is stupid lol. Theyre two separate things.

[u/Spekingur → u/Biggle_fuzz]

Something being paved or paving is more like putting down paving stones or tiles or similar. Which is why it is called pavement in the UK.

[u/aflorak → u/Spekingur]

I'm a USA civil engineer and any hard surface is considered "paved" or "pavement". We use the term "pavers" when talking about tiles.

And "sidewalk" is just pavement specifically meant for foot traffic

[u/IMulero → u/aflorak]

Same in UK, also a civil engineer 

[u/Cautious_One9013 → u/Spekingur]

In the US, paving is laying asphalt and running a paving roller over it. We typically use concrete for our sidewalks. I occasionally see a paver stone sidewalk, but that’s typically in more upscale neighborhoods. 

[u/BenRod88 → u/Biggle_fuzz]

We don’t say roads are paved, we say they are tarmacked. We call roads roads, and the “sidewalk” a pavement. We call them pavements because they used to be paved with paving stones and the name stuck as we started using concrete or whatever various materials they are made from

[u/MechE420 → u/BenRod88]

Fun fact, tarmac and asphalt are different things. Most roads in the US and the UK are asphalt, not tarmac.

[u/mitkase → u/BenRod88]

And in the US, afaik, we mostly use tarmac to refer to airstrips/runways. Go figure.

[u/m0h3k4n → u/Snoo_67548]

And we have pavement still too.

[u/ButteredBeard → u/Snoo_67548]

Yeah, there are so many more examples he could have went with. Good thing he's performing to Brits who don't know better.

[u/housevil → u/Snoo_67548]

Where I'm from, pavement is the strip of Road in between the sidewalks.

[u/lluciferusllamas]

Brits, don't get me started on what happens if I want to put a cigarette in my mouth.

[u/kea-le-parrot → u/lluciferusllamas]

Smoke a fag, very different in the US

[u/Mikes005 → u/kea-le-parrot]

Shit, when I (brit) worked in a Canadian jeans shop and and older American gentleman came in and loudly asked if we sold suspenders i was a little taken aback. I asked if they were for his wife and he looked very offended and said, "No for me of course".

I needed to go for a sit down after that. That's when I learnt he meant braces.

[u/mikeumd98 → u/Mikes005]

Oh you mean the things that go on your teeth?

[u/Cliffinati → u/Mikes005]

Is that the British term for the straps you wear around your shoulders for your pants? We call those suspenders.

Did you assume he meant a garter belt?

[u/PinkDalek → u/Mikes005]

https://giphy.com/gifs/RYFMginsyu2QQGM88E

You call these yellow straps braces? In the US, they're suspenders. What did you think the old guy wanted?

[u/Few-Big-8481 → u/PinkDalek]

A garter belt, probably.

[u/Minttu_Pipar → u/kea-le-parrot]

Then, when people throw them away, there are fag butts all over the ground.

[u/Dave085 → u/lluciferusllamas]

This is the best part, there's so much material to go in on for Brits. And he does.

Everyone gets their turn.

[u/BalanceJazzlike5116]

Squash and racquetball are different games. Different ball and different racquets.

[u/DuX14]

Has this guy never been to the US? Hardly any Americans say half of this stuff except for sidewalk.

[u/Cliffinati → u/DuX14]

And the sidewalk once is nonsensical, pavement is a material not a proper thing.

Roads are paved, sidewalks are paved, I've seen paved basketball courts before.

[u/return_the_urn → u/Cliffinati]

Aussies are in between the 2. We say footpath. The path for your feet, not vehicles lol

[u/FlyingMethod → u/return_the_urn]

I like footpath

[u/DasFunke → u/FlyingMethod]

Make way for foot cycle

No wait. That’s British.

[u/nostradumbass7544678 → u/Cliffinati]

And this from the people who call dish soap 'washing up liquid'

[u/beefjerk22 → u/Cliffinati]

Is his explanations were correct, how would he explain football 🏈

[u/TheCrowing817 → u/DuX14]

This dude CAN be funny but my girlfriend was watching one of his specials last night and fuck me he just beats a joke to death. He'll tell a joke and then keep fucking going with it till it's not funny anymore. Like we get it man some words have silent letters, move on.

[u/donkbonk76 → u/DuX14]

Yeah, most of what he said is admittedly redundant but nobody really uses them. Except for sidewalk, which should be used if you wanna be specific about what kind of pavement you are talking about

[u/SixInchTimmy → u/DuX14]

Nobody under 100 years old says “eyeglasses”.

And squash and racquetball are two different sports.

Very weak bit.

[u/Trick-Station8742 → u/DuX14]

Don't worry, he's as unfunny to us in the UK as he is to you guys in the US

Absolutely awful section.

[u/fastsailor → u/Trick-Station8742]

I think after a while, many comedians become stale and unfunny. I don't think he is very funny anymore. Decades ago, I used to think Billy Connolly was quite good, but his work just became repetitive as he got older. It is hard for them to stay fresh. We have plenty like that in Australia too.

[u/stinkbuttfartman → u/DuX14]

And we don't call all pavement sidewalks, just the pavement that's used as a sidewalk.

As an American, some of my favorite jokes are euros making fun of americans. This guy sucks though. Do you even know us?!?

[u/DweebLSD]

People tell me Shane Gillis isnt funny and then they laugh at this...

[u/OrangeThrower → u/DweebLSD]

Both can be unfunny.

[u/Hamsterminator2 → u/DweebLSD]

It's almost like one is catering to a UK audience 15 years ago and the other is catering to an American audience today.

[u/dewittless → u/Hamsterminator2]

I mean, not very well.

[u/boverly721 → u/DweebLSD]

Nobody ever says any of the shit he's saying. Maybe 70 years ago, idk.

[u/belessdumb → u/DweebLSD]

This clown is tragically unfunny.

He just says the most obvious things and jumps around the stage. Literally the only people who laugh at him are toddlers and senile people.

[u/Frank_Brusque]

Turnabout is fair play…
The US says "parking lot." UK says "car park." They need to specify that it's for cars?! What else would you park there?

[u/ShadowLab451 → u/Frank_Brusque]

No, no. You misunderstand.

They are recreational parks, where the cars can prance and frollic among the wildflowers.

Our cars are free-range and organic, tyvm.

[u/justinlav]

Squash and racquetball are two different games. No one says “waste paper basket” or “eyeglasses” here. 🙄

[u/No_Influence_9389 → u/justinlav]

Different racket, ball, rules and markings. Squash and racketball are as similar as tennis and badminton.

[u/IAmtheAnswerGrape]

Why do British people think Americans say “waste paper basket.” Never once have I or anyone I know said these words.

[u/idobegyour_pardon → u/IAmtheAnswerGrape]

He is a comedian not an actual linguist. This is a bit.

[u/IAmtheAnswerGrape → u/idobegyour_pardon]

Yes, I understand that he’s trying to be funny. It would work better if he were actually familiar with American vernacular.

[u/TheRiled]

Hi Americans. Brit here.

Please don't base your opinion on British humour from this clip.

This was a shit joke from a mediocre comedian.

[u/TomorrowAble979 → u/TheRiled]

I agree. Pretty obvious watching the host and other guests that they thought his set was garbage.

[u/workieworkwork → u/TheRiled]

He also got like 90% of that wrong.

No one says "waste paper basket", We already say glasses, Squash and racket ball are different sports, the sidewalk isn't made out of pavement and I suppose we do say horseback riding or just riding.

[u/Trick-Station8742 → u/TheRiled]

He's such an unfunny bell end. 1.6k upvoter though 🙄

[u/blaspheminCapn]

They have car parks.

[u/Nervous-Discount9116]

I’ve heard Americans call it Tuna fish. Instead of just tuna.

[u/HumanPhD]

I’ve never heard someone say “waste paper basket” in all my life in the US.

[u/SeattleIsCool → u/HumanPhD]

And "bin" is too vague.

[u/Frequent-Coyote-8108]

This bit COULD be funny...if he used words that Americans actually used.

Also, squash and racketball are not the same sport. It's not like Americans have different words for sports like Golf or Tennis or anything.

Just a poorly constructed bit.

[u/Noble_Jerk → u/Frequent-Coyote-8108]

or soccer

[u/LiquidSix- → u/Noble_Jerk]

Americans didn’t invent the word soccer. Football used to be called Association Football, “soccer” is abbreviated slang of that.. which the English came up with, not Americans.

[u/Turducken_McNugget → u/LiquidSix-]

It's still called Association Football. The governing body is FIFA which stands for (translated from French to English) International Federation of Association Football.

[u/CptGreat]

Meanwhile in Germany we have "Fußbodenschleifmaschinenverleih" A store where you can rent a sander, specifically to sand wooden flooring.

Because we need to specify everything to the last detail. I think my whole country is the reason for autism.

[u/sebastianinspace → u/CptGreat]

so my theory is, there were a lot of german immigrants to the american midwest, and i think that this group of people must have had some impact on american english by adding this german-ness to the american english words. making them more autistic like

[u/jejunum32 → u/sebastianinspace]

Most common European ancestry among Americans is indeed German

[u/Surferess → u/sebastianinspace]

Ya, und you're welcome!

[u/SizeableBrain → u/CptGreat]

I like that psychology joke where, where before you can give an autism diagnosis, you have to check whether they're German first.

[u/Brad_Breath → u/CptGreat]

I'm gladyoudecidedtonotusespacesbetweenwords,otherwisethatsignwouldhavebeentoobig

[u/Oppositlife69]

Pavement is a general term for the concrete or asphalt on the side of the road. There's a lot of different pavements lol

[u/Cliffinati → u/Oppositlife69]

We'd say "I'm going to have my driveway paved" and some Brit would think that means we are making the driveway a sidewalk and not replacing dirt or gravel with asphalt or concrete.

[u/CallMeGlarthir]

American here. My brethren, please stop taking jokes seriously. Hes a comedian. Hes not trying to hurt us.

[u/Miserable-Land-9203 → u/CallMeGlarthir]

Yeah, bro, no one's clutching their pearls here. This dude is just not funny.

[u/steelytine → u/Miserable-Land-9203]

I feel like the concept of differences in language can be funny, but he’s just not good at comedy… like saying Americans would put eyeglasses on their knees if they were just called glasses isn’t funny, but if a different comedian workshopped that idea and changed the delivery it could be funny. And the fact that he’s taking a topic that has a lot of potential just shows how bad of a comedian he is.

[u/SirNorbus → u/CallMeGlarthir]

Jokes are funny. This is Gallagher-level wordplay "humor." Did the video cut off before this guy started smashing fruit?

[u/Throwiestawa → u/CallMeGlarthir]

Yea but he’s trying to be funny and isn’t doing it

[u/ICookSomeGoodBeans → u/CallMeGlarthir]

The first and last examples made me chuckle a bit, but the other 3 are entirely deflated for me since I never hear people say 'waste paper basket' 'eyeglasses' or 'racketball' (granted that's because i don't know anybody who plays racketball)

[u/Manymarbles → u/CallMeGlarthir]

True! But Raquetball and Squash are two completely different sports. He is flat out wrong there lol

[u/Scavgraphics → u/CallMeGlarthir]

You're doing a lot of work calling michael mcintyre a comedian.

[u/BusBeginning → u/CallMeGlarthir]

Seriously. Lots of salty comments. It’s a funny joke if you can laugh at yourself. There may be some truth to it too. We’ve got so many cultures and languages here we may have made our vernacular more specific to ensure clarity. Like to me pavement and sidewalk are two different things.

Edit: some folks below are salty lol

[u/CripWalkKing → u/BusBeginning]

I'm not butthurt at all, but that definitely just wasn't funny

[u/allthatssolid]

There are so many painfully real things to drag Americans about. This?
https://giphy.com/gifs/hzrvwvnbgIV6E

[u/thatmaneeee]

I have never said waste paper basket or eyeglasses in my 4 decades of life. Racquetball and squash are different sports.

[u/Tribe303]

As a Canadian, I'm with the Americans on this one, which is rare. Being more descriptive is not dumbing things down. The Americans came up with new words for British words that had multiple uses. Having a larger vocabulary is a good thing. 

[u/HatefulVenom]

Me call it fall because leaf fall down

https://giphy.com/gifs/19GIHDk6wuw9HVGsiM

[u/Lock-out → u/HatefulVenom]

Me can’t understand dates unless they’re formatted in ascending order.

[u/desertrose0]

Hardly anybody is going to say the whole phrase "waste paper basket". You say garbage. "Please throw that in the garbage". Or if it's the big bin you take out to the street every week it's a "garbage can".

[u/Girthwurm_Jim]

Imagine thinking that pavement and sidewalk are synonyms

[u/GayRacoon69]

Sidewalk: "path for pedestrians on the side of a street," 1721, from side (adj.) + walk (n.). The use of sidewalk for pavement has been noted in England as an Americanism at least since 1902.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/sidewalk

Also “eyeglasses” earliest known usage was in the 1500

https://www.oed.com/dictionary/eyeglass_n?tab=factsheet

Also racquetball was invented before squash. And squash used to be called racquetball before 2016. They’re also different games with slightly different rules

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racquetball

And “horseback riding” is from the 14th century

https://www.etymonline.com/word/horseback

Either Americans have time machines or this is a British man complaining about words Brits invented

I mean it’s a fun joke, don’t get me wrong. I’m just an etymology nerd and wanted to fact check. And honestly I think the fact that he’s so confidently wrong makes it unintentionally funnier

But while it’s funny it’s also just completely incorrect. Especially “waste paper basket”. Who says that?

[u/Broken_Minions]

Um. Didn’t the Brits change their English after America split?

[u/EnvironmentalCan915 → u/Broken_Minions]

Some accents lost their rhoticity, but that's about it.

[u/BeltfedHappiness]

I guess we called them “waste paper baskets” in the ancient years of 2012, before we developed electricity. Amazing how much language has evolved since then.

[u/OkTemperature8170 → u/BeltfedHappiness]

I've never said that once in my life, it's always been called "the trash".

[u/Global-Discussion-41]

He lost me with his first example. pavement and sidewalk are not synonymous

[u/Some-Principle-106]

Now say "bottle of water"

[u/Toll_of_Midnight86]

The hilarity really comes in when you realize how many of these things he complains about are holdover terms from when we were a British colony. They changed the term, spelling, etc, and we just kept using the old one.

[u/mikeumd98]

Squash is a different sport than racquetball.

[u/GoldEmployment6768]

Bro, no one calls it a waste paper basket. Those words were never uttered until you said them.

[u/mykidsthinkimcool]

Wait does pavement mean sidewalk in the UK? I use pavement all the time, but I thought it meant "areas that are paved" so yes the sidewalk counts as pavement, but so do the roads and parking lots.

Is the part you walk on the only part thats called pavement in the UK?

[u/i_reddit_it → u/mykidsthinkimcool]

You're right, pavement = side walk in the UK but we wouldn't normally say that for areas that are paved. "Parking lots" are "car parks", roads are just roads 🙂

[u/bossmt_2 → u/i_reddit_it]

"Why do they call it car parks? Did someone keep trying to park segways there? it's clearly for cars."

[u/ThatsNotARealTree → u/bossmt_2]

The old switcharoo

[u/pirate_leprechaun]

Sidewalks are concrete as in not paved, they're poured.

Innit is pure retardium.

[u/M89-X → u/pirate_leprechaun]

wa’ah bo’ole

[u/Manymarbles]

Squash and Raquetball are two completely different games.

Ive played both, different courts, different balls, different raquets, different rules. I prefer raquetball but both are super fun.

I know its jokes, but what is he on about with that one lol

[u/RoosterIllusionn]

Pavement and sidewalk can be 2 different things.

[u/Hot-Philosophy-7671]

I'm not taking linguistic advice from a grown man with the haircut of a 90s sitcom little brother.

[u/Ok-Thanks4321]

They’re called trash cans.

[u/Titanic-Viper]

I've never said waste paper basket or eyeglasses in my life

[u/DoYouLikeWafflezz]

I’ve never heard any American say “eye glasses” instead of “glasses”. Never heard anyone say “waste paper basket” over “garbage can”. “Horseback riding” and “horse riding” is like a 20/80 with “horseback” being a thing mostly only rich people as pretentious as this idiot is say. 

[u/FinasCupil]

Dentist

[u/Trashinmyash]

Wait until he finds out about hot water heaters or atm machines.

[u/Nruggia → u/Trashinmyash]

[u/f23n09fnu0w → u/Trashinmyash]

VIN numbers

[u/Khaztr → u/Trashinmyash]

don't forget about PIN numbers

[u/ItsNotHolland → u/Trashinmyash]

Atm machine makes my hot blood boil

[u/Accallonn]

I love how triggered this comment section is!

[u/R0LL1NG → u/Accallonn]

Same. Especially when you consider this clip is probably older than most of the commenters 😂

[u/YaBoyEden]

I’ve worn glasses for 26 years and never once have I heard anyone refer to them as “eyeglasses”

[u/mermanofold]

The "sidewalk" is concrete, it isnt paved. I thought "waste paper basket" was British. Ive never heard anyone say that. We all say "glasses" and not "eyeglasses" although it distinguishes them from drinking glasses. Racquetball and squash are different sports. This isnt even funny because nobody talks like this.

[u/bwoest]

I can’t take this criticism seriously from the culture which refers to soap as “washing-up liquid”.

[u/Fannnybaws → u/bwoest]

Differentiates it from a bar of soap..plus it's a liquid

[u/BigFakeHead]

I’ll not be lectured to about dialect and accent from a nation that managed to squeeze six or seven of them into a single city.

[u/MALCode_NO_DEFECT]

Got a few chuckles out of me.

You people are lame.

[u/RabidSkwerl]

Ever hear the term “it’s funny cause it’s true?” That’s why this isn’t funny. There are so many jokes you can make about American English vs UK English (Americans get rid of the U because everything is about ME). Squash vs Racketball? Glad he made a joke for the 2 squash players watching this.

[u/Skaeggbiffis]

Oh my lord, the amount of actuallyyyy in this comment section 😭😅

[u/ct-yankee]

We elect a total dunderhead as president and he is our leader, our representative. The world knows he’s a joke. What can we expect but jokes about intelligence in America?

[u/RandomUsername78421 → u/ct-yankee]

This clip is so old Obama was President.

[u/Mammoth_Foot4134 → u/ct-yankee]

I miss the times before Trump when people from other countries never made jokes about how dumb we are. Back in nineteen never.

[u/JamieK_89]

Loving this comment section. Do you not have jokes over there in USA?

[u/ExcrementalChaos]

I’ve never said “waste paper basket” in my life. Garbage or recycling….

[u/xSorry_Not_Sorry]

I am not mad, he’s just not funny.

[u/Fortestingporpoises]

"Pavement" is still used, just not for sidewalks. I'd say it's more used for streets or parking lots, or things that are made out of asphalt as opposed to sidewalks which are made of concrete.