Windsorite Susan Taylor was at Toast, ready to pay for her breakfast when she was told the bill had been covered.
“The waitress made an announcement in the restaurant that this lovely couple in the corner is paying for everyone who is in the restaurant at the time for breakfast,” Taylor told AM800’s Mornings with Mike and Meg.
“She (the donor) said that she was American, and she just wanted to apologize,” said Taylor.
“She said she knows that their president has caused a rift in what was happening between our countries, and she wanted us to know that not all Americans are bad people.”
Wonder if there’s a Ukrainian restaurant in that town.
Yup.
I’ll pay for my own - go and fix your country
Country is great gonna be greater
It’s not great, it will be greater when the fascists are removed, and a proper democracy is installed
Of all countries the US should apologize to, I don’t think Canada makes to the top 50, but I’m not gonna lead a gift horse to water
Why not? While our government is treating other countries and their people worse, it’s not as uncalled for. While most of the chaos is self-instigated for very little reason, there’s just no logic to attacking Canada and so many reasons not to.
It’s like saying we have a nice neighbor who we’ve always got along with and who always helps out, but it’s not worth apologizing for spitting in their face for no reason, because we started a fire at that house down the street with the family whose customs we don’t understand
The US needs to apologize to the whole world at this point. It’s an absolute embarrassment
I’m not gonna lead a gift horse to water
What a joyously adorable mix of proverbs. This made me smile.
I beleive that’s called a Malapropism A favorite malapropism of mine is “We’ll burn that bridge when we get to it.”
It’s close, and malapropisms are great too, but they rely on a similar-sounding incorrect word being used in place of the correct word, usually resulting in hilarity. Your example is also hilarious, but I don’t think it counts as a malapropism, not to get all linguistically technical (okay, I will lol). Rick Perry saying states are “lavatories of innovation and democracy” instead of “laboratories” is a perfect and awesome example.
The genius of @ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml’s comment was that they combined two relevant proverbs into a single equally relevant but hilarious one: “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink” + “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth” = brilliance
Now WE’RE the ones who say sorry all the time.
Worked pretty well for us Germans. Im sure in 80-100 years everyone will have forgotten about your egomaniac fascist starting a world war because there will be a new even worse fascist somewhere else.
Look on the bright side: Germans will soon no longer be associated with Nazis.
Unfortunately, it’ll just have moved to Americans.
Unfortunately, I think theyre on the rise just about everywhere. The US was just the first to go all in full fascist.
I dunno, Japan makes a point to not apologize and they get less flak than Germany
Though I guess the last PM they had who was a dick about it got some flak, rapidly accelerated from a doohickey
Japan only gets less flak from western countries. They get a lot of flak across Asia.
PM only got doohickeyed after retiring.
Maybe because Japan wasnt the country with the crazy power hungry dictator who wanted to cleanse the world of non-caucasians? Sure they did some bad stuff, but so did the US. It was a war.
Edit: if it makes people feel better, I can rephrase it as “horrible warcrimes”, I wasnt trying to play down ww2. Just trying to make the point that Germanys role was pretty prominent.
You really need to read up about Japan in WWII (and several decades leading up to it).
Sure they did some bad stuff… It was a war
I dare you to go to South Korea or China and say in a public place.
Hooo boy, you oughta look at the shit Japan did to Korea and China, they put the Nazis to shame sometimes
Then again the US dropped two nukes on civilians and every president avoids apologizing when they visit the memorial so you have a point there
Oh I see, Nanking was just some ‘bad stuff’.
Sorry
Soorry.
Any people from the states who want to send money over to me also appreciated
Sorry, all my money is about to be tied up in tariffs. If you could send me money, that would be swell.
Tariffs and unemployment.
How about eggs. You can pay for shipping?
We’ve moved on to turtle eggs. They’re not too bad. Pre-salted.
I have a couple of American boomers friends and they sent a few messages apologizing and saying they didn’t vote for Trump and they don’t agree with his policies etc.
Slightly less than a third of registered voters actually voted for him. The majority sat the election out.
Truly our greatest tradition
A nice gesture.
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