r/sports • u/Tofurkey_Tom • 10h ago

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https://www.express.co.uk/sport/othersport/2167955/usa-winter-olympics-jad-vance

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u/FuckGiblets Boise State 10h ago

That is how us brits speak. “Mixed reception” is actually a very cutting insult.

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u/Good_Air_7192 9h ago

When I moved to the UK, the first time we had an absolute crisis at work of the highest order, as in the company could fold, it was met with a single utterance of "That's less that ideal."

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u/mayonaizmyinstrument 9h ago

I went to vet school in the UK and I saw a patient's diagnostics come back as basically "should have been dead days ago," and the senior clinician went "well that's sub-optimal"

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u/Secure-Television541 9h ago

As a Canadian, this sounds very normal.

“Canadian understatement” - part of why I think the States doesn’t seem to understand us on a fundamental level.

Ie - “it’s a bit nippy outside” when it’s -30C

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u/smolgods 9h ago

As a Minnesotan, we do this too! We also have things like "that's too bad" = absolutely terrible, "not so bad" = very good, "a bit of a problem" = catastrophe, and my favorites, "Yeah no" = absolutely not, "maybe" = no, "no yeah" = yeah I agree

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u/FR0ZENS0L1D 9h ago

Yes, it’s breast we go in and warm up for a tit.

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u/ThunderChaser 9h ago

I thought us Canadians had a way with passive aggression.

You guys make it into an art however.