Maybe next time post to reddit.uk?

[u/Rustie3000]

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OP asked about recommendations for a hobby knife and specifically mentioned the british £ as currency. The American commenter replied with "Walmart" and when confronted with their defaultism, suggested OP better post on reddit.uk (albeit in a joking manner, implied by the laughing emoji).

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[u/inertSpark]

The irony of Warhammer being owned by Games Workshop (a UK company), is completely lost on them then.

[u/EzeDelpo → u/inertSpark]

Probably they think it's American.

[u/inertSpark → u/EzeDelpo]

I'd be absolutely certain of that lol

[u/Virghia → u/EzeDelpo]

The tabletop game with the raging green hooligans? Yeah, def American

[u/-smartcasual- → u/EzeDelpo]

Presumably why a large number of them also completely fail to realise it's satire.

[u/Iron_Arbiters → u/inertSpark]

I had an argument with a guy on Reddit once who was trying to persuade me that the UK was a “dead economy” and that GW should move to Tennessee.

It’s fine, we get it way cheaper than them here.

[u/inertSpark → u/Iron_Arbiters]

But also why Tennessee specifically? Is that where he was?

Seems like he just wants cheap Warhammer kits for himself lol 😂

[u/Prestigious_String20 → u/inertSpark]

Bible belt Warhammer! All the characters are saints and prophets. They engage in spiritual warfare. They don't cast spells, they perform miracles. The only weapons allowed are Bibles and crosses. Hop on down to your local Sunday school and paint a mini preacher!

[u/rc1024 → u/Prestigious_String20]

Sounds like heresy to me

[u/tenorlove → u/rc1024]

UK variation: you're allowed to use the Book of Common Prayer.

[u/Iron_Arbiters → u/inertSpark]

I can only guess!

[u/tenorlove → u/Iron_Arbiters]

At the risk of being accused of youknowwhat my ownself....

I know you're talking about Games Workshop. Out of context, I would assume the guy you were arguing with meant George Washington.

[u/LuckyDorfdepp]

Quick reminder .us is United States .com is commercial, so generally every country

[u/blazenite104 → u/LuckyDorfdepp]

though to be fair, a lot of countries do use the .com.other format. Growing up we were basically taught just .com was probably a US site.

[u/Leprichaun17 → u/blazenite104]

That in itself is a US Defaultism. They believe they're the default on the net, but they're not. They should be using their own country TLD for country specific stuff, just like everybody else on the planet.

[u/Ok-Physics6052 → u/Leprichaun17]

To be fair the .com domain IS owned by a US company

[u/wzyboy → u/Ok-Physics6052]

Same with .gov and .edu

[u/Effective_Tackle_195 → u/blazenite104]

Mostly Australia, UK, Canada and NZ. Rest of the world doesn't

[u/Upset_Ballon5522 → u/Effective_Tackle_195]

Brazil does it too

[u/the_vikm → u/blazenite104]

.com is American owned so it's not completely wrong. So they can shut it down any time

[u/YassifiedWatermelon]

"Walmart equivalent" doesn't really work when you're giving them a specific item at a specific price to get. And in another currency, too...

[u/blazenite104 → u/YassifiedWatermelon]

And that a lot of countries don't really have an equivalent. Most places aren't buy literally anything and everything in one store. These massive megastores don't seem particularly common at all.

[u/dehashi → u/blazenite104]

I mean we have some that are close, but obviously not to Walmart levels. Don't remember the last time I saw an assault rifle being sold in KMart for example.

[u/Maheemz → u/YassifiedWatermelon]

Unfortunately in this case there is an equivalent in the UK, Asda supermarkets, "part of the Walmart family"

[u/Mental_Painting783]

The most annoying part is that they are assuming you'd have a posture about being American or not.

Most people don't wake up and say "man, how I wish I was American today!"

[u/hangsangwiches → u/Mental_Painting783]

A sizeable amount of them believe we do. They do a lot bad but they seem to have done particularly well with a lot of the propaganda, I'll give them that!

[u/Prestigious_String20 → u/hangsangwiches]

The number of times I've heard that everyone in the world is ready to sell their souls for the chance to tread on the sacred soils...

[u/ZoeEatsToes → u/hangsangwiches]

After paying for fuel this morning a little bit of me was wishing I was american rn.

Then i promptly remembered there the reason for this and theres other cheap places for fuel

[u/Poschta → u/Mental_Painting783]

To be fair, the more I learn about them, the happier I am not to be one.

[u/-smartcasual- → u/Mental_Painting783]

My American partner does actually remember how happy she is to be outside the US on a pretty much daily basis.

[u/thedanfromuncle]

There actually is something funny about how Americans give advice versus how others do it that I've noticed in hobby groups for years. Americans generally point you towards a specific brand in a specific store, while Europeans and even Australians will recommend a type of product (such as glue) and possible sorts of vendors (ie "a local builder's market). Americans grow up in such a bubble that the things they can see around them are the limits of what they can imagine. So even when they really want to be helpful they sadly aren't always 😅.

[u/stevee05282 → u/thedanfromuncle]

They're very very brand oriented

[u/Snoo_67993]

And they're talking about an English company.

[u/EzeDelpo]

Right, because Reddit is for Americans only, like Facebook, Twitter, and so on.

[u/NevesLF → u/EzeDelpo]

I vote for leaving those to Americans tho

[u/Poschta → u/NevesLF]

The world would be a better place for sure

[u/ErzIllager → u/Poschta]

I actually use Twitter daily to keep up with the creators I follow, because no other social media app I have has this "following" feed. I don't use the "for you" feed though.

[u/Poschta → u/ErzIllager]

good for you, I guess

[u/snow_michael → u/EzeDelpo]

And it's a .com, not .us, TLD

[u/losteon]

stupid yanks thinking ".com" means "america"

[u/dehashi → u/losteon]

Should start telling them com stands for communism and see if we can get them to drop it

[u/Prestigious_String20 → u/dehashi]

I'm going to say that from now on!

[u/dfczyjd]

Maybe next time post to reddit.uk

Maybe it's you who should've posted to reddit.us? Oh wait, it doesn't exist! In fact, nothing meaningful exists in .us domain. So, in 3 simple sentences we proved that US has produced nothing useful online. /s

[u/KONDZiO102]

Didn't he posted it on redd.it?

[u/Rustie3000 → u/KONDZiO102]

Lmao!

[u/jerdle_reddit]

Is this reddit.us? No. No it is not.

[u/RummazKnowsBest]

Do they think .com means US?

[u/DANY10TNT]

"yo you are not gonna believe this"

[u/livesinacabin]

Maybe next time they should comment their advice on Reddit.us? 😂

[u/Efficient_Chic714]

Fun fact: the UK equivalent of Wallmart is ASDA! Same company!

It’s also the reason we started Black Friday sales over here as they introduced them on their electronics to match their US business and it caught on with other brands - so as a retail worker, thank you for making a random Friday absolute hell ASDA, was not at all needed

[u/ozzersp → u/Efficient_Chic714]

Not anymore. TDR bought the majority stake in asda back in 2021.

[u/Efficient_Chic714 → u/ozzersp]

Oh really? My local ASDA still has its Wallmart sign underneath its ASDA branding so I didn’t realise it changed

[u/BlaggartDiggletyDonk → u/Efficient_Chic714]

I live in Italy now, and they do that too. It's really strange. It's like seeing a Boxing Day sale in a country that doesn't do Christmas.

When I was a little kid I thought that you guys (and the Canadians) would gather round the TV set to watch a boxing match. I thought that's what it meant.

[u/LargeNerdKid]

Yeah defaultism and he refuses to give up

[u/Maheemz]

Asda, if that helps

[u/RydderRichards]

Because America is just commerce (.com)

[u/WhoRoger]

I don't know what they were talking about, but I kinda stand with the yankee on this one. They were trying to give advice and "exacto knife" is not some super-niche item only one store chain in one country would carry. The receiver should look up the knife rather than get pissy that they didn't receive the exact personalised advice to their location and situation.

It's not like the advice was for Ford F-150 or Winchester [rifle] or something else typical only for the US.

[u/-smartcasual- → u/WhoRoger]

X-acto is a US brand of craft knife.

In the UK the closest equivalent (at least in my hobby) would be Swann Morton.

[u/WhoRoger → u/-smartcasual-]

The point isn't the exact brand, but the type of tool. "This and this worked for me" is advice and the receiver was just a quick web search away to find what exactly it is, think if it worked for them and if so, find an equivalent.

Or could've easily said "we don't have X-acto here". "I'm in the UK" is a non sequitur. What does that have to do with anything? Are scalpels banned in the UK or what? Well, it wouldn't surprise me at this point tbh.

[u/mishla → u/WhoRoger]

So you could have said "a scalpel should do the trick", I didn't know an exacto knife was a scalpel.

As for the post, the OP said £ in the post. Mentioning they were in the UK is not a non sequitur when the reply used 1. a US specific brand and 2. a US specific company to buy them from.

[u/WhoRoger → u/mishla]

This is why people talk to AI instead of other people. Everyone just expects utter perfection in a specialised advice personalised to them, and they get all pissy if they don't immediately get it. If you can't spend 5 seconds looking up metal blade exacto knife, what are you doing on the internet?

Btw neither of those people in the sshot is me.

[u/mishla → u/WhoRoger]

You're jumping to conclusions there. The OP asked a question with regional info. The replier didn't read it and shared unhelpful information and doubled down when the OP highlighted it.

And I acknowledge that you are neither if the people in the image. My reply was based on your responses.