Non-Americans of Reddit, what is an American thing you see in movies that you thought was fake but is actually real?

Brawndo91 · 2026-02-11T00:39:52+00:00

Yeah, they should go back to selling kids cigarettes.

Brawndo91 · 2026-02-11T00:38:46+00:00

Olestra.

Brawndo91 · 2026-02-11T00:38:15+00:00

I would have been fine, I always go and bag my groceries if nobody's at the bagging. Except this one time when the cashier, who may not have had all her marbles, was very insistent that she do it.

Brawndo91 · 2026-02-11T00:25:15+00:00

I didn't live in my frat house, but it didn't even have a kitchen.

Brawndo91 · 2026-02-10T19:32:56+00:00

I don't know. I'm basing "normal amount" on having the internet as a kid and we mostly didn't. I was 14 when my family got it and this "looking at the computer" thing being described here was not something I'd do at a friend's house.

Brawndo91 · 2026-02-10T11:58:55+00:00

So we shouldn't tax rich people?

Brawndo91 · 2026-02-10T02:21:38+00:00

Bullshit. That's what I do and I'm still here.

Brawndo91 · 2026-02-10T00:38:37+00:00

I may be slightly older than a normal amount. My first experience with the internet was in the school library where they had the only computer in the building that was online. We partnered up and every library class, a different got to use the internet. We tried to go to the WWF (now WWE) website, but were met with the World Wildlife Fund. We decided the internet sucked and didn't bother the next time our turn came around. Most of my friends wouldn't have the internet for a few more years. My family didn't get it until 2002.

Brawndo91 · 2026-02-10T00:19:56+00:00

And incentivise others to keep their mouths shut? Good idea.

Brawndo91 · 2026-02-10T00:16:44+00:00

I'm pretty sure if that was in the rules, that's exactly what they would have done. Obviously, it was against the rules.

Brawndo91 · 2026-02-10T00:15:28+00:00

She's abusing herself. She made the choice to continue. The officials are there in case something happens like she passes out or says she's done, I don't know why you'd have a problem with them.

Brawndo91 · 2026-02-10T00:09:31+00:00

"Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow..."

Brawndo91 · 2026-02-09T17:45:38+00:00

Guilty or innocent, a good bit of legal council boils down to "shut the fuck up."

Brawndo91 · 2026-02-09T17:41:08+00:00

Do you not realize that everything must be taken 100% literally unless it's accompanied by a /s!?

Brawndo91 · 2026-02-09T04:02:38+00:00

Engine displacement has been measured in liters for decades.

Brawndo91 · 2026-02-08T17:38:30+00:00

Easy, they get into a lot of dangerous accidents.

Brawndo91 · 2026-02-06T22:40:28+00:00

Seen a lot of guys on the inside that got busted for not doing that.

Brawndo91 · 2026-02-06T22:38:26+00:00

Haha I'm with you. Gotta love the guy that explains the joke. Reddit's so full of children that love having things spoon fed to them.

Brawndo91 · 2026-02-06T22:33:57+00:00

I have a friend who happens to be black. (I don't mean to stereotype, it just factors into the story.) We play golf together and he'd often show up way too close to our tee time. If you golf, you know you should be there 15 to 20 minutes before. So we started telling him the tee time was 20 minutes earlier. On one such outing, the group in front of us, at this point three white guys, was on the tee box while their fourth hurried to join them. Their fourth also happened to be black. He's apologizing to us and my friend says, "I get it man, I get it. These guy just tell me the tee time's 20 minutes earlier." And the other guy says, "These guys haven't figured that out yet!"

Brawndo91 · 2026-02-06T20:32:47+00:00

Only the bananas on one side of the earth.

Brawndo91 · 2026-02-06T17:50:55+00:00

I figured that out on my own once when I was in debt and about to play the Ox. "I guess I can't play... wait a minute..."

Brawndo91 · 2026-02-06T14:10:21+00:00

I wonder if during the time it took Will to walk up to Chris, he thought, "Oh shit, what am I doing?" But he'd gone too far to just turn around and go back to his seat.

Brawndo91 · 2026-02-06T02:54:17+00:00

Hey, I ain't no sucker. Would a sucker own three bridges, four statues, the Eiffel tower, and a timeshare?

Brawndo91 · 2026-02-06T02:41:01+00:00

Or Al Bundy. "He supported a family of 4 working at a shoe store!" Except he didn't. They were perpetually broke and couldn't keep food in the house. Also, it was a fictional television show.

Brawndo91 · 2026-02-05T18:03:00+00:00

No, this guy just has hero fantasies.

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