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    22 days ago

    Me: Happy to see a meme referencing a town 20 mins from me (Stockport)

    This guy: Brings it back to America.

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      22 days ago

      In fairness, it’s probably a psychological defence mechanism put in place to prevent the mention of St*ckport causing emotional damage.

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        22 days ago

        I understand why they do it. After all, they do dominate western media and internet so to them it is the majority of content they see.

        Edit: Although, this is feddit.uk, but again I often forget to check where I am.

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        22 days ago

        As a Manc my major beef is with the Scouse.

        Where you from for this Stockport hate?

        • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukOP
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          Where you from for this Stockport hate?

          I don’t hate Stockport except for comedy purposes. I had a nice day out there a month or two back and it’s got a lot going for it.

          As a Manc my major beef is with the Scouse.

          Well you aren’t going to like my answer then…

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            Haha what are the odds.

            Much the same as you it’s only playful hate. We got love for any northern town.

            Plus 0161 > 0151 😆

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              22 days ago

              My Mum was from Manchester, so it makes things complicated. It’s much easier to hate Southerners.

              Plus 0161 > 0151

              Wait until Preston hears about this kind of argument!

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      21 days ago

      Well, amongst the English-speaking World the US does have more population than all of the others combined (even including South Africa’s 60 million people) so it’s kinda undertandable that in an English-language forum sooner or later an American will come and start talking about the stuff within their own life experience.

      That said, having lived in Britain for over a decade, I for one loved the joke :)

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        21 days ago

        I did reference this in another comment further down.

        I don’t blame Americans for it. It’s natural. Even though it’s a UK instance, we don’t always check where we are

        Edit: Not sure why you being downvoted for this.

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          21 days ago

          Well, this was funny enough to end up in the All feed of other instances, so I bet a lot of people didn’t even notice it was posted in a UK instance (I certainly didn’t).

          As for the downvotes, it’s probably due to pretty much the same reason as why as time goes by the probability of an American making a comment talking about America on a post in an English-language forum about a place other than America, becomes 100%, as I explained above: basically as the former probability becomes 100%, so does the probability that somebody by now well and trully fed up with such posts by Americans pops-up and starts downvoting anything in the least way seeming to justify it, since the two are correlated.

          It’s only natural ;)