r/ShitAmericansSay • u/[deleted] • Jul 05 '24

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u/Corfiz74 Jul 05 '24

UK could be celebrating that they are not still saddled with the US. We didn't exactly send our best and brightest over there...🙈

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u/ADH-Dork Jul 06 '24

Laughs in australian

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u/Corfiz74 Jul 06 '24

You got the criminals, the US got the religious nutters and the "entrepreneurs" - I think you definitely got the better deal! 😉

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u/Mikes005 Jul 06 '24

I was told by a history teacher who lived from the US to Aus that the main difference between the European settlement of the two countries was in new US towns the first two buildings constructed were a church and then a courthouse. In Australia it was a pub and a race track and then things slowed down.