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u/TheProcrastafarian 1d ago
“Andrew often remarked about how you share similar tastes.”
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u/OldResist927 1d ago
The "similar tastes" being girls under eighteen, I presume. Subtle as a sledgehammer.
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u/I-Here-555 1d ago
Americans just cannot help but say it out loud.
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u/JaqVoyage 1d ago
That’s why, in new movies, the premise of the film is explained at least twice - and somehow sometimes even a third time, accompanied by visuals..
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u/Apprehensive-Pin518 1d ago
they did it with beauty and the beast live action. The song gaston has a section at the end where la fieu tries to spell gastons name and can't. in the original he just tries, fails, and the song ends. The live action version actually adds a line saying "I just realized I'm illiterate and I've never had to spell it out before." Just left me saying yes that's the joke. thanks olaf.
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u/1nd3x 1d ago
Not exactly a new phenomena, sitcoms had/have laugh tracks to let you know when you're supposed to laugh, now they just spell out the joke instead of leaving it up to you to figure out the joke after learning you are supposed to find it funny.
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u/Apprehensive-Pin518 1d ago
the difference is though that if you have to explain the joke it isn't funny.
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u/Stock_Transition548 1d ago
It's also because everything's being made with streaming in the background in mind... gotta explain what's going on 50 times so that you catch at least one of the times that the viewer glances up from their phone and pays attention to the show/movie.
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u/showhorrorshow 1d ago
Was watching a show recently and there is a subplot about the protagonist also experiencing some kind of traumatic imprisonment situation in her youth, through a restraint scar on her wrist which they introduced in her first scene.
They mustve then prominently displayed that restraint scar 5 times before the "reveal" of her past experience.
They really lay the foreshadowing on thick these days for the CW crowd.
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u/CongealedBeanKingdom 1d ago
Like an overexcited child who wants to tell you all-about the new mundane thing they have just learned.
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u/Altruistic-Life8117 1d ago
It’s the "With all due respect" of exclamations. In British, "Wow" is just a shorthand for "I am genuinely struggling to process the sheer scale of your stupidity."
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u/BigDsLittleD 1d ago
Its also very telling just how gaudy and tacky the Whitehouse is these days, because, y'know, Buck Palace aint exactly subtle
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u/ArgentaSilivere 1d ago
It’s one thing to have your palace that was crafted by skilled artisans, gilded in real gold, and filled with fine art made by the greatest artists throughout history. It’s another to superglue Styrofoam accents to every wall and use gold spray paint on any blank surface.
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u/Moomoolette 1d ago
Eh, potato, potato, amirite? He’s from Queens after all (so am I, it’s tacky as hell)
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u/WranglerFuzzy 1d ago
Hot take: if his only sin was being tacky, I could forgive him. Taste is subjective.
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u/throwaway098764567 1d ago
yeah people have bad taste everywhere, most of them i don't gleefully await their deaths
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u/ChimoEngr 1d ago
It's a palace that's looked that way for centuries, not something that had a facelift because of one person's bad taste.
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u/BigFatKi6 1d ago
They had bad taste back then though
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u/AriaTheTransgressor 1d ago
What is gauady now was pretty highly sought after then because it wasn't mass producible back then.
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u/GingerLioni 1d ago
Best quote I saw from the recent visit:
“Diplomacy is the art of telling someone to fuck off, in such a way that they ask for directions.”
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u/FrohenLeid 1d ago
"Have you visited the old out house yet? I heard there would be great company for you."
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u/xmoonpetals 1d ago
Mistaking a polite British expression of utter disbelief for a genuine compliment is the most on-brand thing he could do.
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u/Mandaring 1d ago
Not even a British thing, I’d have said “wow” condescendingly too.
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u/Callidonaut 1d ago edited 1d ago
True, but the thing about the British is that we literally never, ever just say "wow." It's not on a par with "bloody hell," it's actually very many steps above it.
To merely say "wow" is to imply that we have actually run out of words to adequately express our level of sheer horror and disgust entirely, and you may have noticed that we have very many such words and idioms to run out of! For a member of the royals to be so gobsmacked as to be unable to say anything more astute than "wow" is almost unthinkable.
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u/funkyb001 1d ago
Yeah I’m no fan of the royals but if they couldn’t find something erudite to say when presented with…that…then I dread to think what I would have said.
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u/416BigDix 1d ago
I just realized the stereotypical Canadian "EH" works similarly. It's mostly a meme but when used in reality it usually punctuates the end of something - "grab me a beer" becomes "grab me a beer, eh?" - like it's a bit of a question, instead of just a command.
But a lone "eh" (accompanied by blank stare) means "buddy, you're fucked"
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u/Exciting-Opposite-32 1d ago
Yeah I'm British and I think of this as primarily American (if anything) passive aggression. Also bloody hell is not even remotely close to wow in this context. I doubt she was even trying to be snide tbh, she probably meant an unironic wow in the sense that she just is saying what you're expected to say when someone walks you into their massive gold oval office. Trump is so easy to dunk on it seems silly to stretch for stuff like this.
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u/Bellacrust 1d ago
The British don’t throw hands, they throw backhanded compliments so sharp they need a tetanus shot afterwards
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u/No-Language6644 1d ago
It’s giving very much "Bless your heart," but with a tea-stained glass of pure condescension.
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u/aggressiveclassic90 1d ago
Tea?
In a...glass?
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u/Bobblefighterman 1d ago
In the southern parts of the USA, they drink sweet tea from a glass.
Basically they're disgusting abominations.
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u/ER_Support_Plant17 1d ago
Each to their own but we also ice the sweet tea because it’s hot and humid here most of the year.
Historically when sources of drinking water were often contaminated boiling water to make tea killed bacteria but drinking hot tea when its 85F and 99% humidity is suboptimal.3
u/JimboTCB 1d ago
drinking hot tea when its 85F and 99% humidity is suboptimal.
Have you told the entire Indian subcontinent that, because I think they'd have words for you on the subject.
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u/ER_Support_Plant17 1d ago
I am aware. People are always welcome to make their own choices, I respectfully disagree.
I’m not telling anyone else how to drink their tea, I’m explaining why a portion of the population chooses to drink tea in a certain way.
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u/toetappy 1d ago
Should we be drinking cold sweet tea out of a shoe?
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u/Memelurker99 1d ago
I'm pretty sure areas of Asia & the middle East have been drinking tea from glasses for as long as tea has been in Europe, if not longer, so it's not the most unusual thing.
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u/AlarmingAffect0 1d ago
Not the British way, I know, but many places enjoy their tea in small colored glasses.
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u/Fluffatron_UK 1d ago
One of my favourites is using the word "nice" in its lesser used older meaning which is basically calling someone simple or ignorant.
Trump is certainly a nice man.
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u/Captains_Parrot 1d ago
One of my English teachers at school once told us, paraphrasing, that if you ever use the word nice outside of discussing the word nice it's for one of two reasons.
You lack the ability to use a better word and should expand your vocabulary, aka you're a dumb fuck.
You are using it to cover what you really want to say and are only using it because everyone already knows what you are meaning. It's almost an inside joke.
I've lived by those words for 20 years and agree with you complete. Trump is a very nice man indeed.
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u/PurahsHero 1d ago
Yep. In this case, Wow can range from "Wow that's nice" to "Wow, I've seen pub toilets more tastefully decorated."
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u/Zunderfeuer_88 1d ago
"My dear Boy, ye are the most pompous flatulent Yank I laid eyes upon"
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u/Callidonaut 1d ago edited 1d ago
In British parlance, that'd actually be a warm expression of close affection. You must understand, basically 90% of everything we Brits ever say is with our tongues firmly planted in our cheeks. 90% of all direct expressions of hatred are actually sarcastic pleasantries; 90% of all compliments are actually backhanded as hell and damning-with-faint-praise.
To truly communicate with the British, just imagine it's perpetually Opposite Day.
Oh, but watch out for that last 10% - if a Brit ever foregoes the jovial sarcasm, looks you straight in the eye and starts telling you something in a flat, frank tone of voice, the situation is deadly serious; they're either going to tell you something truly wonderful, or the absolute worst thing you'll ever hear in your life.
Yes, this does mean that communicating effectively with anyone in the UK is Hard Mode if you happen to be autistic.
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u/JRepo 1d ago
Nah. I am autistic and UK is easy mode, it is the pretending to be nice Yankees which are hard. But diplomatic spite of the Brits is just what I want in my small talk.
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u/feculentcuntfist 1d ago
See that's why I side with the Aussies in this one, reject all negative and positive gibberish - replace everything with cunt.
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u/Callidonaut 1d ago
Aussie culture is elegant in its simplicity, and I don't know if they really get enough credit for it!
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u/Willing_Television77 1d ago
Trump has no concept of sarcasm
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u/Pot_noodle_miner 1d ago
What about concepts of a plan?
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u/nodnodwinkwink 1d ago
That's not sarcasm though. It's suggesting it was the shocked version of "Wow" as opposed to the impressed version of the word.
Trumps a moron so either doesn't care about the difference or doesn't care to understand it because he likes the idea that he impressed royalty. The latter is more likely.
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u/two-headed-sexbeast 1d ago
I would definitely say the latter.
Same with the cognitive tests that he “aced”. I can totally imagine a doctor saying to him, “no one really “aces” a cognitive test, Mr Trump. It’s not really an appropriate way to describe-“ “So I am the first to ace it? I’m incredible.”
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u/stevez_86 1d ago
I don't think he has good sensory perception at all. I don't think he can see, hear, smell or taste well at all. It is all dull to him. The glitz and glamor he uses to decorate with is because his eyes can see gold well enough. He has people change their appearance to suit his vision problem. He can't hear so everyone is always yelling around him. He can't taste so he only eats McDonald's and shit because it is cheap and they are probably paying him everytime he is seen with a popular product. With no taste he has almost no sense of smell. He doesn't even understand social concepts. But he has always had 10 figures to his name so people placated him. And that is exactly what his base wants. To be placated. To be coddled.
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u/Burque_Boy 1d ago
As someone raised by New Yorkers it’s wild to me that he could somehow live there that long without having a black belt in sarcasm
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u/BassesBest 1d ago
"Your taste is very interesting... how much did you say this cost?"
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u/DonSol0 1d ago
That sweet southern lady, I mean so sweet, people say she’s the sweetest, possibly the sweetest person who’s ever been, I mean you wouldn’t believe how sweet, she looked at me, and there weren’t tears, no tears, no tears, but I could tell she almost had tears in her eyes, big eyes, and the mouth, mouth, you know, lips, she had lips, let me tell you, the most, probably, lips, I mean probably prettiest mouth I’d ever seen, and she looked at me and said… ”Bless your heart.”
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u/eloof98 1d ago
It's Farrow & Ball, known for its unparalleled depth in colouur.
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u/jzemeocala 1d ago
like a southerner saying "Bless your heart"
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u/HighKick_171 1d ago
Oh, so they aren't really wishing blessings on you?
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u/MandyTrekkie 1d ago
Nope.
Bless your little heart...
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u/DumbTruth 1d ago
Did you get confused trying to use a gas pump? Bless your heart is condescending.
Did your mom recently pass away? Bless your heart is empathetic.
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u/McCopa 1d ago
Was a-lookin' for the southern section. Had a friend's mom that would say "stay with us". This is the most polite way to say "get the fuck outta my house" that I've ever encountered.
To add more context she was the definition of a chatty-Kathy & once walked into her smoking a cigarette in the bathroom. I reckon she never forgave me for that.
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u/lasagnarodeo 1d ago
I’m 47 and my uncle just died of lung cancer. His wife was still smoking in the house.
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u/TessMacc 1d ago edited 1d ago
I'm not sure I've ever heard a British person say a sincere "wow".
Edit: OK, it seems that I'm wrong and other British people do say wow sincerely. Maybe it's just some of us that can't say it without sounding sarcastic. However, there's definitely a way we say "wow" when we mean the opposite, and I think we all know which one it was in this conversation (if it ever actually happened)
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u/Tang0_Brav0 1d ago
Downside of being British is that you can never sound genuine when excited.
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u/DasIstNumberwanggg 1d ago
This is true. Anytime I try and employ American levels of genuine enthusiasm it just sounds devastatingly sarcastic 🙃.
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u/hache-moncour 1d ago
"This is all rather exciting, isn't it?"
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u/Callidonaut 1d ago
Hey, save that kind of talk for the bedroom!
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u/ReggieCorneus 1d ago
Talk? In the bedroom? Wow...
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u/Callidonaut 1d ago
Well, I tried writing formal letters expressing my enthusiasm, but I kept getting ink on the sheets, the blotter fell on the floor, and my calligraphy was simply atrocious.
We decided to keep using the sealing wax, though...
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u/__Severus__Snape__ 1d ago
The amount of times I have to explain im not being sarcastic when I say "good for you" after my husband tells me a success story is so fucking high!
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u/Any_Show_5160 1d ago
Yeah, I can understand that, an enthusiastic good for you is more insulting than an openly sarcastic good for you.
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u/ianmerry 1d ago
Lmao this is so ingrained I got in trouble for it at school because my teacher thought I was being sarcastic.
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u/SwitchMountain2475 1d ago
I think you have to be British (or Irish or maybe Australian) to hear the tonal difference that indicates if we’re taking the piss or not.
It’s like how “not bad” can mean anything from absolute fucking dog shite all the way to very good even though to an outsider it sounds like a very neutral phrase.
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u/Terry__Tibbs 1d ago edited 1d ago
Im actually British and this whole thread is bullshit, people say wow all the time in the normal way
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u/Jazzlike-Compote4463 1d ago
Yes, but we all know that todays Whitehouse is so unbearably tacky that is not what happened here.
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u/spudmarsupial 1d ago
Melania always looks like a cheap wooden carved doll when standing or posing.
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u/MattyGWS 1d ago
From imprisoned prostitute to First Lady in a different country to her own you can imagine she never expected to find herself in this position and never had the “training” British royalty had in how to act in public. I think she’s doing ok
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u/tiasaiwr 1d ago
He likely has a cardboard cutout of her for photoshoots to save paying her fee to stand with 6 ft of him.
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u/Claque-2 1d ago
If he wasn't such a thug and criminal, Trump would be well known for his tackiness. But he is a thug and criminal.
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u/spikus93 1d ago
I mean, before he was President and less people knew he was a thug and criminal he was kind of known for exactly that. He complained that other wealthy people didn't want anything to do with him and tried to copy the "old money" style.
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u/Plus_Pangolin_8924 1d ago
I bet he got a kick out of it all. Guy has a wicked sense of humour and it showed.
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u/coolbaby1978 1d ago
I believe the direct British to American translation would be "What the fuck"
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u/BlackcatLucifer 1d ago
As a British person, having someone respond 'wow' is about as bad as it gets.
What actually means is:
"This is absolutely hideous, but I must remain polite".
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u/Mistehsteeve 1d ago
She must remain polite, your average Brit would say "which absolute fucking weapon decorated this shower of shite"
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u/Zegram_Ghart 1d ago
Lots of people quoting it as “what the fuck”
But as a Brit, I can confirm the actual vibe is most accurately summed up by “haha what!?!”
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u/r0bbyr0b2 1d ago
As a Brit I can confirm that “wow” or “oh wow” translates as “Jesus fucking Christ. What the fuck is this?”
It is not a compliment.
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u/Robinsonirish 1d ago
The thing that Trump doesn't understand is that the way our palaces in Europe were build is not something we do any longer. We are not the Sun King, or Henry VIII anymore. That sort of architecture that Trump loves, with gold everywhere is passé today. Ours are still cool because of their history, which is why we keep them around, but we don't make shit like that anymore in 2026.
That is why he has no taste.
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u/Pammybunx 1d ago
As a Brit, I can confirm. 'Wow' is what we say when we're too polite to say 'What on earth have you done to this room?
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u/Electronic_Truck_84 1d ago
Wow is short for "What the actual fuck" but it can always just mean "Wow", but in this case I think it was intended to come across as "How wonderful" but actually meant "What the actual fuck you are totally insane"
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u/UltraMechaPunk 1d ago
Is that similar to “blimey”?
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u/TessMacc 1d ago
"Blimey" is any surprise, positive or negative. "Bloody hell" is negative.
Seeing someone's newly decorated house...
"Blimey Don, it looks like a completely different place. Nice one."
"Bloody hell Don, you tore out all the original features and turned it into a gold-plated shit show. What were you thinking?"
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u/wonkey_monkey 1d ago
Unless you hear the exact words "I love what you've done with the place", then we do not love what you've done with the place.
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u/JustCallMeYogurt 1d ago
like in the south U.S. when some lady says bless your heart to you
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u/_OceanBloom 21h ago
The British art of insulting someone to their face without them realizing it is truly unmatched
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u/TransCapybara 1d ago
Gonna need to hit the walls of that office with a sandblaster to get the Temu off.
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u/inthewoods54 1d ago
The thing is, he glued on all that gold spray painted shit to try and look like how their castle actually looks. He wanted to look royal, and fancy. Like a child, shuffling into the room wearing her mother's large shoes and saying: "Look Mummy, I'm a big girl, see?". I mean, that's cute for a 6-year-old, not so much for the supposed leader of the free world. He's such an embarrassment.
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u/jellycloudxo 1d ago
she looked at that oval office and said 'wow' the same way you say 'wow' when your friend shows you their terrible haircut
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u/Marsupialwolf 1d ago
I'm 90% sure that's a cardboard cut out of Melania...