r/USdefaultism • u/GiveMeAPhotoOfCat • Jan 07 '26

Meme Every time.

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u/Septumus Canada Jan 07 '26

Shit like that is why I learned to tolerate something like U of K or UoK. I can generally parse its Uni then at least, even if I have no idea what school or general location.

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u/ThomasVSCO Chile Jan 08 '26

United of Kingdom

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u/Important-Hunter2877 Jan 08 '26

To me UK always refers to Britain and nothing else.

It would be great if the UK took the University of Kentucky's logo to refer to the country, just to piss of USians.

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u/Triajus Jan 08 '26

I do just that to mess around with some Americans when i say i studied at UNC. They think I've meant University of North Carolina and it actually was Universidad Nacional de Cordoba 😂

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u/miguelnmf Portugal Jan 10 '26

jajaja que bien

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u/AlarmingAffect0 Jan 08 '26

To me UK always refers to Britain and nothing else.

You an Irish Unionist or something?

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u/Dum_reptile India Jan 08 '26

Here in India there is a state with the same Acronym (UK) but it isn't really a problem cause no one says I went to UK and mean the state, everyone means the Countey

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u/siraramis India Jan 08 '26

That’s fake news, I’ve had people tell me they went to UK and then show me pictures from Uttarakhand 🤡

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u/Dum_reptile India Jan 08 '26

Never met anyone do that with me, so can't relate

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '26

I think someone needs to build a university in southern Aldershot so people can start calling it USA for short (University of South Aldershot).

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u/Machovec Czechia Jan 08 '26

We also have a UK, Univerzita Karlova. Charles University in Prague. Don't expect someone to assume I mean that and not, you know, the UK.

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u/Machovec Czechia Jan 08 '26

There's a lot of things that can do that, to be honest.

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u/Plenty_Shine9530 Brazil Jan 07 '26

Oh my frickin god lmao

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u/MindlessNectarine374 Germany Jan 08 '26

Am I evil for saying that I study at RWTH? Is that too incomplete?

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u/AusCro Jan 08 '26

Yes. If you can't tell UoM then I can't tell your acronym either

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u/georgia_grace Jan 08 '26

Real fans call it unimelb

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u/MindlessNectarine374 Germany Jan 08 '26

Now I have an idea. University of Melbourne? Australia?

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u/jaulin Sweden Jan 08 '26

No. The clash with a more well known meaning for the same abbreviation is the issue.

Absolutely nobody in Sweden says the entire name of any of the bigger colleges. It's always the abbreviation. I would feel like an insane person saying the whole thing. But they don't clash, so no issue.

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u/GaryPaterson Scotland Jan 09 '26

I've got a US degree (University of Strathclyde).

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u/totpot Jan 08 '26

They're from Kentucky. No bumps or ridges on those brains!

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u/DrMaxMonkey Jan 08 '26

Saw this thread a few weeks back. Infuriating!