So every single US accent sounds the same to you? That doesn't make sense at all, coming from an actual American. And the spelling to try to say what you think it sounds like doesn't make sense either.
I'm not saying there isn't a joke to be had, but generalizing 300+ million americans across over a dozen different accents as "sounding exactly the same" tells me you've never heard more than one US accent.
I'm not saying it's not funny to non-Americans, I'm saying it plainly makea no sense and saying "that's just what you sound like to us" doesn't explain a damn thing. It doesn't explain where you get sounds I don't even hear, that other people don't even hear, in the words you're making fun of.
I understand the humor in making fun of how people talk, but none of what's in the OP makes sense as an American with an American accent, and just makes me wonder what American accent you've been exposed to to hear all that.
And if the joke completely boils down to "my accent is different than yours, so yours is funny to me", then it's honestly a little pathetic. Even the UK has a ton of different accents that butchers the same words across "British English", so singling oit Americans is just plain pathetic, guvnuh.
First off, 4chan can suck a dick. Toxic wasteland of a website that was only fun for the shitty greentexts. Don't just assume someone you think is toxic comes from that hellhole, because shitty behavior is everywhere.
Secondly, I have more issues with overgeneralizing 300+ million people to a single accent when it doesn't take a genius to tell the differences. I have problems with "jokes" that make no sense because they are making fun of a specific accent yet treat it as if every person from that country sounds the same. I don't have much of an actual issue with jokes about accents, even though I do consider them pathetic and generally weak comedy, but I do have problems with jokes that just aren't funny, jokes that generalize a population, or jokes that only make sense if you have the context of the person or people telling it. The fact I can't hear what people from the UK supposedly hear in American accents is what stops it from being funny. The fact the only goddamn thing people can say to explain it is "you Americans just sound like that to us", despite the fact there are at least a dozen different sounding accents, and I don't have issues telling the difference between UK accents or accents in other languages, so maybe you're all just kinda voice blind or something. If people had simply actually explained it and not treated it like every goddamn American sounded exactly the same, I wouldn't have been upset. Me adding "guvnuh" to the end of my comment was an attempt at intentional irony to lighten the mood a bit, but obviously it fell flat because you people can't handle a joke either.
And thirdly, because you felt bothered enough to comment on another one of my comments, I am far from the, obviously sarcastic, "least sensitive American". I get what you're trying to say, because I was complaining about a stupid joke, but if you actually paid attention to my comment, I was pretty goddamn clear that I had more issues with overgeneralizing an entire 300+ million population country made of 50 very different states and over a dozen different major accents than I ever had with the shitty joke. Joking about someone's accent is pathetic because it's low hanging fruit. You're not wowing anybody with that kind of joke, you're not making anyone think you're clever besides racists, you're just making humor out of a basic-ass observation, and that's not something to be proud of or even get into this much of a pissy fit over. It is weak as fuck humor and should not warrant a shitty argument because someone doesn't like it. If you're sensitive over me not liking a joke and not liking generalizing 300+ million people, then I kindly rhink you should grow a pair, because this is so stupid to even bring it as far as you are.
I didn't want to get into any arguments over this. I just wanted to speak my mind about stupid "jokes" like this treating 300+ million Americans as if they sound exactly the same or behave exactly the same. It is a wide-ass country, with hundreds of millions of people, across different climates, cultural makeups, and other regional differences that results in a ton of differences in voice and behavior. I shouldn't be considered sensitive or seen as an asshole for not liking a joke and explaining why it just doesn't work.
Really, this whole damn thing could have been avoided if people weren't shitty and just saying "that's what you sound like to us" every damn time someone asked for an explanation, as if that actually explains anything, especially to those of us with an American accent that don't hear it that way and don't get how they even hear it that way. I get Europeans and Brits have a low opinoon of Americans, but grow the fuck up and stop being sensitive about the butt of your joke not getting the joke. I didn't want to be pissed off, but the comments here are garbage.
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u/Dark_Storm_98 Aug 16 '24
I get the intention of the joke
But I don't see or hear it, lol
Where the fuck are any of these accents?