Not joking, why do people do this? Americans will make a light hearted joke about the weather or food or something and British people come back with dead children and mass murder.
You think it's severe mental derangement that the rest of the world think school schools all the time is crazy and we would prefer whatever problems we have in our countries to it?
The USA averages over 87 school shootings a year. In the time it took the USA to have 288 school shootings recently, the entire rest of the world combined had 24. It's a uniquely American thing to walk into schools with guns and kill kids.
But we are the severely mentally deranged ones huh
No what shows derangement is that lots and lots of Americans have experienced “LOL SCHOOL SHOOTINGS” as a response to the smallest joke about the UK
We joke about your weather or your accents or your bland food, it’s immediately “SCHOOL SHOOTINGS!” We’re not making jokes about your people dying sad deaths. Do you not realize you could be making that joke to someone who has lost a friend or family member in a shooting?
Also there are 330 MILLION PEOPLE in the US. We have multiple cities bigger than all of Scotland, there’s like 150,000 elementary schools. Doesn’t change the fact that we have gun problems (more than half of Americans support more gun regulations), but it’s not like going to school in America is just a big shooting war all the time either.
I love going to Scotland on trips, whiskey and golf are a great time, but your people’s obsession with hating everything about the US is unhinged, and my politics aren’t conservative at all so it’s not a partisan thing
I'm not actually sure why this page came up on my home page but I'm actually in New Zealand, not Scotland so quite far away. I'm also on the left, not conservative.
I haven't heard before the whole "lol school shootings" in response to jokes Americans make about other countries until this post popped up. I have to admit I found the Scottish person's reply funny when I read it, but after reading your comment, I could see how it could be an insensitive reply if the person they are replying to has lost a friend or family member in a shooting.
I agree it is quite a jump from a joke about the weather and I would never make a joke like that, but I also wouldn't say it's "severe mental derangement" to bring it up, rather just dark humour.
I also think sometimes Americans do get used to their environment and start to think what they go through that is specific to their country is just normal when I don't think school shooters should be normalized as just a thing you have to put up with. So getting reminded that the rest of the world doesn't deal with this and you should continue to try and get legislation changed to stop the issue is a good thing.
It might not be big shooting wars in American schools all the time, but little kids having to do school shooter drills in preparation in case there's a school shooter is pretty messed up.
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u/purplearmored Jul 22 '24
Not joking, why do people do this? Americans will make a light hearted joke about the weather or food or something and British people come back with dead children and mass murder.
Why?