#american stuff

[thefloatingstone]

Me: Someone tried to shoot Trump again

My mom: yes I heard. Regardless of circumstances, murder is such a horrible thing. Being a murderer is never good.

Me: both people who tried to kill him were Republican

My mom: *bursts out laughing*

[spoekelse]

[did-sm1-say-catfish]

sorry not sorry but i am, in fact, a dumb american who cannot understand most measurments but if you put it in football fields i go “ohhhh… damn.” and yeah go laugh at me in the clown cage but at least i understand now

[volucrinevulpine]

This person just liked one of my Tweets and I was viciously slapped in the face with deja vu..

[anti-anti-a-la-bi-bi]

Here, if our local school is shit, we just cycle like 30 min extra to travel to a school we *do* like. Is it that difficult to go to a different school?

In my school district, we were allowed to apply to schools that weren't our "home" school (i.e. the school closest to our residence), but I know that in other school districts you're only allowed to apply to the school nearest to your house. (Or, maybe if you're lucky, they'll let you apply to an in-district specialty school, like how in a nearby school district they have a special high school for math/science/engineering.) And that, of course, assumes your school district has more than one school of that grade level. I know there are some rural school districts that have a single k-12 school for the entire county.

Meanwhile, you have to get special permission to go to a school in a different district. I know the parents of one of my elementary school classmates had to jump through a bunch of hoops just to get into the middle school in the neighboring county that, while less than a 20 minute drive from our elementary school, was in a different district. I think one of the parents either worked in that city or had a family friend/relative who worked in that city claim the kids as their own for school district purposes, and those kids needed high enough state test scores.

(And then there's the alternative of private schools, but AFAIK the private schools in my area were almost all Catholic schools, and IDK how good they were in terms of funding and education in non-faith areas.)

May I ask what is considered a private school over in the USA? Here we have religious schools and non-religious schools, as well as some special needs schools. Between religious and non-religious, you generally won't see too big a difference, but it does also depend on where your school is located. One school in my area demands girls were skirts because 'god said so', but it is one of the only schools in my area to enforce that kind of rule.

[if-we-are-free-tell-me-why]

One thing I always wondered watching American TV is, do you guys really have that many American flags everywhere? Like in classrooms and government buildings already weird imo but fine. But do you guys really also have them in offices? Do people really decorate their home with it? Do children draw the American flag and do the parents then frame that and hang it up?

[inthroughthesunroof]

For USians who want to voice an opinion to their government right now

Here’s where to look up your senators:

https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

Here’s where to look up your representative:

https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

Both sites take you to pages that have a contact/email option.

Here’s how to yell at the president(’s staff) directly:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

[takaraphoenix]

I saw your tags on that tik tok you reblogged and i just wanted to say as someone raised in the south, its just like ingrained in you from birth basically to say ma'am or sir as a respectful/polite thing. even though im nonbinary myself and dont like to assume anyones gender i still end up saying it pretty frequently just bc of life long habit especially since i would get in trouble for not saying it when i was younger.

That's... a fascinating cultural thing. Like, I understand it from the perspective of being overly polite toward a customer, but that customers fall into despair over this toward staff? When most people can't even be bothered to treat staff like human beings. Fascinating.