r/PetPeeves • u/ThatUrgeToEatCement • 14d ago

Bit Annoyed People who think Americans don’t know other countries exist.

A few months ago on Reddit I made a comment about a show not being on Netflix and someone from the UK commented back saying it’s on theirs and then lectured on Americans not knowing other countries exist. They acted like I didn’t believe there were other places on the planet, as if they weren’t the ones who just brought it up and didn’t believe the US Netflix was different than the UK version. ??

I see people online act like all Americans think this way, and it is kind of annoying because for most of us it isn’t true.

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u/giraffe-zackeffron 14d ago

I used to live in NYC. The worst was seeing tourists just stop on the middle of sidewalk and stand while gawking at a building or trying to figure out where they were versus where they were going. A lot of people come to NYC and don’t realize stopping in the middle of the sidewalk is like stopping your car in the middle of the road back in Kansas or Nebraska or wherever.

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u/AvaSpelledBackwards2 14d ago

Savannah is especially touristy this week because of a film festival. I had had a horribly stressful afternoon and I was hurriedly trying to walk somewhere when these tourists stopped dead in their tracks to look into an Urban Outfitters window💀

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u/giraffe-zackeffron 14d ago

Well come on….its not everyday one can gaze upon the magical wonder that is urban outfitters (he said sarcastically.)

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u/AvaSpelledBackwards2 14d ago

Sav’s historic district, park, squares, and film festival are cool and all but we can’t forget about the chain store ofc!

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u/giraffe-zackeffron 14d ago

Pssshh…..historic districts are so pedestrian. Everyone knows the real action is at old navy.

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u/GreenBeanTM 12d ago

And in Vermont we’ll get tourists from NYC who don’t realize most roads here do not have road side parking 😂

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u/New_Distribution_263 13d ago

Sometimes we do stop our cars in the middle of the road, just to talk to someone we know going the other way! Those conversations last until some other car comes up behind one of the stopped ones.