What insulting words or phrases have you heard americans being called ?
What insulting words or phrases have you heard americans being called ?
I want to hear what insults you have heard others using to refer to americans
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My favourite is
seppo
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It's Cockney rhyming slang. If you want to come up with a slang term for a something, you take something that rhymes "yank → septic tank" and then cut it down "septic tank → seppo"
Jeebus, that's a lot of work. "Americans are loud and smell bad" seems so much easier.
Maybe Americans are
lazytime efficient with their communications. What a zinger.Part of the point (the whole point?) of rhyming slang is that it's opaque and convoluted. That's what makes it fun. It also makes it a bit of a shibboleth - you only understand it if you're part of the culture.
If you're eating with an Australian and they ask you to "pass the dead horse", it means they think you're Aussie enough to know what it means. Or they know that you won't know what it means and they're fucking with you intentionally.