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27 minutes ago, kali Wylder said:

Yeah, me too.  Prolly has more sugar than is good for me but yum!

We make it at home - using a tweeked version of that 'Secret Recipes' website.  Primarily because we seldom eat KFC chicken, but often want coleslaw with a meal.  

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Cabbage does not agree with me at all, which is unfortunate. I don't mind coleslaw, and on occasion, cabbage rolls. My former in-laws made very tasty coleslaw, cabbage rolls, and my former FIL made an absolutely mouth-watering sauerkraut soup. Sounds awful, but served with warm pumpernickel bread. . . *drool*

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2 hours ago, Beth Macbain said:

I like cabbage pretty much any way you want to serve it up.

I like coleslaw, if it is like the KFC kind.  I can deal with a small amount of sauerkraut on a bratwurst.  Yet I pretty much cannot stand cabbage served any other way.

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3 hours ago, LittleMe Jewell said:

Only KFC's

It's all yuck to me. lol Boiled cabbage (with sausage or ham, hamhock etc) I love... but that's it. Although a bit of sauerkraut on a hotdog/sausage type dog once in a great while can be good.

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Pet peeve: Americans that be like "I'm ethnically part Polish and part Italian" because that's where one set of ancestors (most likely traced through the male line only) came from seven entire generations ago. Like bish neither country actually existed back then, what on earth are you smoking?!

Imagine being so ashamed of your own culture and nation that you refuse to acknowledge its existence, and instead clinging to a mythological fantasy version of your past that doesn't reflect the cultural melting pot that mainland Europe has always been. It's kinda sad. And it doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world.

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The United States is a very new country compared to the rest of the world, so it doesn't really make sense to compare everything we do over here to what you do over there. There are some things you just are not going to understand. (Assuming everyone here is "ashamed" proves that point.)

P.S. That's an odd thing to be peeved about. I mean, how does it affect you? Sincere question.

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6 hours ago, AyelaNewLife said:

Pet peeve: Americans that be like "I'm ethnically part Polish and part Italian" because that's where one set of ancestors (most likely traced through the male line only) came from seven entire generations ago. Like bish neither country actually existed back then, what on earth are you smoking?!

Imagine being so ashamed of your own culture and nation that you refuse to acknowledge its existence, and instead clinging to a mythological fantasy version of your past that doesn't reflect the cultural melting pot that mainland Europe has always been. It's kinda sad. And it doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world.

It doesn't happen in many other places because the US doesn't have much of a past due to being a fairly new country (for the whites) compared to Europe. And people tend to feel a sense of identity or 'place in the world' by knowing where they come from. So it's natural for some to want to trace the lines back as far as one can.

* And as Sylvia said, it doesn't have to mean that anyone is ashamed.

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6 hours ago, AyelaNewLife said:

Pet peeve: Americans that be like "I'm ethnically part Polish and part Italian" because that's where one set of ancestors (most likely traced through the male line only) came from seven entire generations ago. Like bish neither country actually existed back then, what on earth are you smoking?!

Imagine being so ashamed of your own culture and nation that you refuse to acknowledge its existence, and instead clinging to a mythological fantasy version of your past that doesn't reflect the cultural melting pot that mainland Europe has always been. It's kinda sad. And it doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world.

https://www.whatitmeanstobeamerican.org/imperfect-union/why-are-americans-so-obsessed-with-genealogy/

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At the height of its power, the Commonwealth of Poland included Lithuania, Belarus, and much of Ukraine. It developed a unique form of government in which the nobility elected the king and a single dissenting vote (the liberum veto) stopped any legislation. This system invited foreign intervention and civil war, and made the country vulnerable to more powerful neighbors. In 1772, Austria, Russia, and Prussia conducted the First Partition of Poland. Attempts at reform leading to the Constitution of 1791 led Russia and Prussia to conduct a Second Partition in 1793. After suppressing a Polish revolt in 1794, the three powers conducted the Third Partition in 1795. Poland vanished from the map of Europe until 1918; Napoleon created a Grand Duchy of Warsaw from Prussian Poland in 1807, but it did not survive his defeat.

https://history.state.gov/countries/poland

 

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Background:
Italy became a nation-state belatedly - in 1861, when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL.

https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/italy.htm

Italy as it stands is 159 years old. Poland is far older.

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6 hours ago, AyelaNewLife said:

Pet peeve: Americans that be like "I'm ethnically part Polish and part Italian" because that's where one set of ancestors (most likely traced through the male line only) came from seven entire generations ago. Like bish neither country actually existed back then, what on earth are you smoking?!

Imagine being so ashamed of your own culture and nation that you refuse to acknowledge its existence, and instead clinging to a mythological fantasy version of your past that doesn't reflect the cultural melting pot that mainland Europe has always been. It's kinda sad. And it doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world.

As Sylvia just said, The United States is fairly new compared to Europe. I suspect very few of us "yanks" are ashamed of our own culture. In fact I'd venture to say that the majority of us are very proud of our culture and way of doing things. Mind you, I'm only speaking of our culture and not our current political representation.

That being said, many of us also have an interest in who our ancestors were. As for clinging to a mythological fantasy............ are you implying that I'm NOT an Apache Viking?

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I have to say, obviously I'm looking at it from across the pond, but America seems on the whole to be a very patriotic country overall. I've never got the impression that the average American is ashamed to be so, even if they don't approve of the current leadership. Quite the opposite.

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Wow.  We could really have a slangfest over geopolitics, what?

Look...The United States has not existed long enough to have a huge amount of history and its own unique culture, compared to the Old World.  We've been described as a "melting pot".  So it's quite understandable that U.S. citizens tend to celebrate the cultures they sprang from.

Please note that a "culture"...cuisine, traditions, and history...may extend far back beyond where the actual, political entity that is its "country" came into being, as Selene points out.  My maternal grandfather was a Norwegian immigrant.  He was the son of farmers, and was a dentist.  Nevertheless, I'm interested in, and proud of, my "Viking heritage".

And that pride does not mean that I reject my membership in the United States.  I come, in part, from Germanic roots...but I'm also a proud Yank.

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2 minutes ago, Lindal Kidd said:

I'm also a proud Yank.

I'm a proud swamp Yankee (been here so long we forget where we came from). Actually I can trace one line back to the second Jamestown settlement.   I am so curious about that one.  Was he a convict deportee from England(most of the "settlers" were)?  What was his crime? He left Jamestown and roamed all the way up to Maine where he settled down and had a family. Mind you, there were no foreign settlements between Jamestown and Plymouth back then, he traveled a long journey on foot to get away from Jamestown.  

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2 minutes ago, Luna Bliss said:

The US disgusts me, I'm not a proud 'yank' at all, but that's not why I searched for my ancestors. I simply wanted to know all of me.

Researching family history is always so interesting. I suppose that's why "Who Do You Think You Are" is so popular on the TV.  

There are always strange coincidences to be found, such as when a police man friend of mine was researching his tree, he found a great uncle had also been in the police force, and his collar number was only one digit different! 

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25 minutes ago, Lindal Kidd said:

I'm also a proud Yank.

   It's not about whether or not anyone should or shouldn't be proud of who or what they are - but sometimes it's just fun to disprove someone when they claim to be the smartest, strongest and most beautiful person in the world.

   I think it's hilarious to point out how one Swedish submarine 'sunk' a US Aircraft Carrier without being detected by its escort during a war game, because that's like holding out your leg when someone struts past you with their nose in the air. Anyone could very well retort with the fact that Sweden only has 5 submarines in total, and that our combined armed forces probably has about the same firepower as the coast guard of Utah.

   But as Ayela said earlier:  

On 5/13/2020 at 6:13 PM, AyelaNewLife said:

The idea that it's okay to mush the vast range of culture or even just food available in the UK, or in Scandinavia, into one lump and yet get defensive about the variety on offer in the states... it's kinda laughable. This cuts both ways or not at all.

   That people are -still- getting upset because we make fun of all things 'Murrican, whilst uncultured brats sit wretching over some ignorant 'Murrican teens stuffing un-gutted and still-to-be-de-boned surströmming straight out of the can and think that's representative of Swedish or Scandinavian cuisine, that's just beyond petty and just reinforces the, probably more or less global view, that Americans are uncultured and entirely uneducated on anything beyond their borders.

   I laugh, hard, when American talk show hosts ask people on the street to point out China, North Korea, Iraq, or even Europe on a map of the world and fail. Do I think 'that's all Americans'? No, of course not - but I wouldn't have been let out of fourth grade before I could point out every European nation, as well as every American state on a map, and name their capitals - as well as, of course, the Swedish duchies' ('landskap') names, their 'capitals' (administrative seats), their heraldic flower, tree and animal; all 25 of them, each of which we'd written an essay on (in cursive handwriting, I might add!).

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The "melting pot" metaphor is a crummy one on several levels, but if you accept it you still have to recognize that North America is imperfectly melted.  A couple of centuries isn't long enough to blend the cultural histories (much less the genetic heritage) of the waves of immigrants to this continent and the native people who were already here.  After the mid-19th century, immgrants tended to form their own communities, many of which still have an overprint on "American" culture. In my own part of the midwest, for example, we have counties and towns that are still largely Norwegian or Dutch or Czech or Finnish or Swiss because the families that arrived together to farm the land still own it today.  Eastern Europeans arriving in the start of the 20th century formed vibrant communities around factories and mines, as well as merchant communities in places like New York.  Asians have done the same, bound by linguistic and cultural ties, so we have Hmong in Minnesota and Korean communities all along the west coast. Those are strong and cohesive today.  It's no surprise that they still identify with where their ancestors came from, but they are all quite definitely American.

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13 minutes ago, Luna Bliss said:

I traced my favorite line (my fathers name) to the west coast of Scotland...those islands to the west. 

Oh that is an absolutely beautiful part of the British Isles. My cousin married a Scotsman and traced his family back to King James VI. My family tree just keeps leading me back to more peasants!! 

Whenever I go to Scotland though, I try to go to Skye, but even a week in Fort William and you come back feeling rejuvenated by the clean air and ten years younger. 

And contrary to popular belief, Scottish folk are probably the most generous I have ever known. 

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1 hour ago, Neilina said:

That being said, many of us also have an interest in who our ancestors were. As for clinging to a mythological fantasy............ are you implying that I'm NOT an Apache Viking?

So you're a 60 year old Chevy work truck?

1959_Viking-04-940x636.jpg

 

COOL! I LOVE OLD CHEVYS!

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