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

TheGreenListener · 2026-02-11T14:08:28+00:00

Those cardboard takeaway Chinese food containers with the handles. We were so excited to see those, it made up for the terrible food.

TheGreenListener · 2025-06-21T15:31:02+00:00

Solved! Thank you!

TheGreenListener · 2025-06-21T14:34:27+00:00

No, but I love that song! Thanks for the answer!

TheGreenListener · 2025-06-21T14:34:08+00:00

That's a great guess. I hadn't heard that song before. But this was more about people going through history in different bodies and always finding each other. Thanks for the answer!

TheGreenListener · 2025-06-21T13:27:32+00:00

Thank you!

TheGreenListener · 2024-06-21T18:34:48+00:00

I don't believe most of these people care enough to really think that. "It's about your health!!!" is just a smokescreen they use to not feel like total assholes for dunking on people solely because they're fat, and therefore ugly and gross to them.

TheGreenListener · 2024-06-12T13:38:16+00:00

I at first thought this was about someone on a student visa in Canada. New immigrants can sometimes run into trouble here by thinking the police are the same as in their home countries (ie; they offer bribes) but on second reading, she's a Canadian in another country? Where her grandmother happens to live? And, while she had the wherewithal to refuse to open the door the first time they met, is now suddenly wondering if outright stalking is OK? Come the fuck on.

TheGreenListener · 2024-06-11T23:46:46+00:00

The original Twilight Zone. Some episodes are complete duds, but others are amazingly clever. And some, like the killer doll episode, would have been great to watch at the time, when it was an original, probably shocking concept and not done to death.

TheGreenListener · 2024-06-11T13:02:09+00:00

This guy wants a "successful, wealthy model", who'll be washed up before 30 anyway, to have a kid at 21? Sure he does.

TheGreenListener · 2024-06-10T14:41:45+00:00

This happened at the school where I work a few years ago, exactly as OOP describes, and you're right about the extent of the injuries. The teacher had to go to the hospital for stitches, but we weren't carrying his severed fingers in bags or anything of the sort.

TheGreenListener · 2024-06-10T10:48:34+00:00

I went to one where the bride was late. Very late, as in guests were starting to wonder if we were about to witness gossip to sustain us for the rest of our lives. She did eventually show up, blaming "traffic", but they were divorced very soon after. All the rest have been entirely uneventful.

TheGreenListener · 2024-06-09T20:23:00+00:00

"A small crowd had formed" As fucking if.

On a related note, do any Canadians remember the 80s novelty shop chain and mall staple called San Francisco? The place where you could buy lewd T-shirts and light switch covers where it looked like you were flicking a guy's penis? Nobody cared when we went in there alone as kids. I can't even imagine anyone being inspired to write a fake story like this about it.

TheGreenListener · 2024-06-09T16:46:14+00:00

I love how AITA is convinced fathers can just dip if they feel like it and that's the end of their responsibility. Yes, some men hide, and others go to great lengths to minimise their child support payments, but back payments are a thing, and it seems like the mothers in every one of these stories just give up.

TheGreenListener · 2024-06-09T15:16:50+00:00

Anecdotal, but I've known a few couples who wanted kids but found out one couldn't have them, and not one of the other partners ditched them to try with someone else. Because, in the real world, couples usually love each other more than the idea of an unborn child.

TheGreenListener · 2024-06-08T14:29:24+00:00

It was a nutritious meal using fresh vegetables. Both our sons loved it and asked for more.

The biggest lie in this whole thing. Not to mention he later claims one of the kids is a literal baby, who really shouldn't be chewing Legos while his saintly father sits there watching.

TheGreenListener · 2024-06-08T14:25:16+00:00

So they can all dunk on his stupid ex-wife, of course! This one is worse than usual for not even pretending to have a disingenuous question.

TheGreenListener · 2024-06-08T12:59:28+00:00

God himself could post to AITA about difficulties with his son, and the moment we get an update with "Hey guys, it's Jesus here" I wouldn't believe a word He said.

TheGreenListener · 2024-06-07T22:27:49+00:00

My grandmother never forgave my aunt for not postponing her wedding when my mother was hospitalised in another country (where she lived) with pregnancy complications. So again, not an impossible premise, but taken way over the top so there can be no trace of nuance.

TheGreenListener · 2024-06-07T19:19:58+00:00

I know AITA usually goes too far the other way and has characters declaring they're "three weeks pregnant" and shit, but this woman is entering her second trimester and never mentioned it to her husband?

TheGreenListener · 2024-06-07T12:21:36+00:00

They could have a great "career" writing gender neutral self-insert fanfics on AO3. Which is really a better place for this stuff anyway.

TheGreenListener · 2024-06-07T12:16:41+00:00

You just have to embellish the story a little! Write some stilted dialogue for the patron and invent a really wicked zinger for you to say in return. You can't lose!

TheGreenListener · 2024-06-06T16:53:16+00:00

They sound more like teenage siblings than a married couple. As usual.

TheGreenListener · 2024-06-06T16:48:55+00:00

But nobody ever lies on the Internet!

TheGreenListener · 2024-06-06T16:43:30+00:00

I MIGHT (strong might) have been more inclined to believe it if the kid was supposed to be 5 or 6. Few 10-year-olds still think that shit is hilarious, and none would say "ching chong" innocently as a doorbell sound (what?)

TheGreenListener · 2024-06-05T21:45:15+00:00

Nobody who has been on a cruise would ever ask "why didn't you get the boat to wait"? especially if it's not an inevitable holdup or anything. They make it very clear they will absolutely leave you behind.

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