Hi so basically I know you guys here on the mb live in the usa and I would like to ask you questions about it because I am so conflizzeled about your country so can you plz answer these questions 1. do you really deep fry Oreos 2. why do u use Fahrenheit and not Celsius like the rest of the world 3. using the term feet when referring to hight doesn't make any sense 4. are New Yorkers actually rude 5. fix your president plz 6. do people really where those clothes you see on tv that look totally unpractical and impossible to wear. 7. what is black friday 8. why do you have all these fast food places like Wendys, bugerking and arbys 9. how on earth does America have a 38 % obesity rate 10. do you really sell beer at your pharmacies 11. why is every person In the us obsessed with ranch dressing in Australia we don't even have it.
12. why are your pizzas soo big 13. do you really sell cheese in a can 14. what with all the flavours of Oreos. in Australia you either get the original flavour or you get nothing. 15. why don't you add the sales tax to the price tag. 16. can a baby own a gun
17.why can you go grocery shopping in target
soo those are my questions plz answer because this took along time to write. Also I hope I really pissed you off by not putting a question mark at the end of the questions. :)
okay then
@ anyone
hey, but what is "confizzled"?
LOL
Holy Hundred Year Star Vas u never told me you had the ability to start wars abut ranch dressing
seriously
im already starving
WHYWHYWHY
here is a pic of laminations
I thought we were getting into geography
i never tried Australian food. Issit good?
does America have lamingtons?
woah
wassat?
I want to straighten out the confusion for our Australian members about question number 3, the US Customary measurement system.
So, as I said earlier, one foot – the standard, most common unit of measurement for this system – was the length of the Roman Emperor's foot. One inch was the length of his thumb: tip to first knuckle. So if you're confused about why there are twelve inches in a foot, I want to make sure you understand it wasn't planned that way. These were just convenient measurements for people at the time (Roman Empire, so 753-410 BC) and it just so happened that one inch fit into a foot with twelve inches in a foot.
A mile, I want to point out, did not start as 5,280 feet. A lot of people think that this is absurd, which I agree with wholeheartedly. It started as 5,000 Roman feet, used to measure long distances — like between important landmarks and cities. I do not know why it became 5,280, but this is the best I can do. I hope it helps!
Side note** A yard is three feet (thirty-six inches), and there are 1,760 yards in a mile. I have no idea how they came up with that.
Conversions (if they help)
1 inch = 2.54 cm
1 foot = 30.48 cm
1 yard = 0.91 meters (91.44 cm)
1 mile = 1.61 kilometers
Can we NOT get into politics?!
What's Alaska like?
That image is almost correct, in Australia we binge on a lot of your tv shows so we mostly know about america through them. Also who here knows what Full and Fuller House is?
and no one even thought of including DISNEY LAND?
gracious
is that how we look?
plus, don't tell me people see los angelos and not san fran!
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
I just found this and it's sadly true, although funny:
1. Girl, we fry everything
2. There's probably some reason we haven't switched yet, but I don't know what it is
3. I don't know either
4. idk, never been that far East
5. Honestly, he's not that bad. Yeah sure he's far from being perfect, but he's no worse then a lot of former U.S. Presidents, the press just likes giving him a hard time
6. I certainly don't
7. A long time ago, when business used to keep records in books, they used two colors to keep track of their money: red for when they were in debt, and black for when they were not. Well, shops spent most of the year in the 'red', but to get out of that, they would put on a huge scale around Christmas time to make up the money they owed, and push them back into the 'black'. Now it's just become a mad rush to get things for cheap
8. Americans want things fast
9. We are quite lazy
10. I don't think so
11. Ranch is a pretty versatile dressing, and tastes good with a lot of things
12. Depends on where the pizza comes from
13. Easy cheese. And it pretty much only tastes good on crackers
14. Americans like variety
15. So it looks cheaper
16. idk
17. You can, but my family can't because the closest Target is 400 miles away