Last year, a video went viral featuring a performer named Michael 'Chili Dawg' Castleberry showcasing his unique guitar skill—using a beer bottle as a slide. The caption read, "The European mind cannot comprehend this." People quickly began attaching the phrase to other things that they believed were foreign to the Old Continent, and thus, a new meme was born.
Now, Europeans and their allies from around the world are playfully flipping the script to get back at Uncle Sam — "The American mind cannot comprehend this" pictures are meant to single out what the United States is lacking.
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My mom realized her passport expired... in the airport. They gave her an extention until she returned to our country. Took them 40 minutes.
neither can they comprehend cramming the cars so full that station workers have to push people at the doors inside, so the doors can close.
lol Apparently you've never been to rural America. I guess the European mind can't understand that most of the US is farmland and small agricultural towns. And this kind of thing is common. When I lived in NV the freeway would come to a halt to let cattle pass. Same with mules and wild horses. Yes, wild horses.
I hate this so much! I know it is for the nature,but damn when you need to drink water at night and the only thing that gets water is my nose and some scrathes added.And don't even mention screwing it back half asleep. Effing struggle.
Ah, the good old Aussie reverse tipping taxis: "The fee is $20.23. Tell you what, mate, just make it $20." Alas, a dying breed in the cashless economy.
But we would like to...except, of course, for when we want/need something from a business that's close for the "summer holiday", however long that is. "Where I work should be closed for a few weeks/months, but I need all other businesses to be open for my convenience." How does that work, anyway? I mean, surely you can't close all of the grocery stores/markets for a week at the same time... I would think any business that can close for an extended period of time can't be any kind of necessity to society.
neither can the minds of almost every other country where bagged milk isn´t a thing. like my german mind.
Because no one in the US ever reports illegal content, never ever! /s
Yup, you're right. I can't wrap my head around being without AC in the hot months. Just can't live like that.
Women in hijabs are permitted to see them in the company of a male blood relative.
And yet, strangely enough, you can find a copy of this in Williamsburg, VA. And Saem, Massa. And Wright's Landing. The La issue in Chicago. Yep, Americans are baffled
People just love to smugly look down on Americans for things they don't know we have... ;D
Load More Replies...Or any downtown area of any major city...OMG bollards, WTF are those?!?!?! /s
Load More Replies...We can't comprehend a single car free street? This list is so damn ignorant
We perfected the stealth bomber yet we lag far behind in that all-important bollard technology!
Except we have bollards. Everywhere. So this is dumb.
Load More Replies...Note: this post originally had 59 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
If you're going to America bash BP at least make an effort. This article is pathetic.
Don't worry, it'll be Brit bashing tomorrow, "boomer" bashing the day after that, "What men find (insert word here) about women", "what women find (insert word here) about men", Gen X/Y/Z bashing, then back to America bashing and so ad infinitum.
Load More Replies...Bored Panda. This was by far the dumbest load of America bashing I've seen. Please can we stop this and focus on good stuff from America.
It wasn't focusing on negative stuff from America I don't think. Just focusing on positive stuff from other cultures and then stupidly assuming Americans don't have that stuff. Obviously written by someone who hasn't seen very much of America.
Load More Replies...Hey, BP: instead of trying to divide people, single people out, irritate people just to get more comments, why don't you go back to kind of content you had when I first starting coming to BP. Back then, the content was cute, funny, warm, positive. This was known as one of the most positive places on the net, which is why I came here: to escape my crippling depression. But recently, all I see here is negativity. Couldn't you have found a way to present these pictures without bashing Americans? BP: you can do better.
Absolutely! The last few years, BP has really gone downhill.
Load More Replies...One of the worst set BP has ever published. Did the leadership of BP change?
No, they're just desperately trying to be Buzfeed, TMZ and Ebaum's World rolled into one
Load More Replies...Yes, make a list about "Trump's mind can't comprehent this:" but I fear the list would be several thousand entries long
Load More Replies...I am American, and therefore have an American mind. And it can comprehend every one of these things.
Presumably, Americans are the only group that it's socially acceptable to insult casually. Kinda rude, if you ask me!
Load More Replies...Are the people who picked these pics raving idiots? Because most of these are fairly normal in the US, some originated in the US, and others are myths perpetrated by people who have idea what the US is
Or clearly what other countries are as well. Several of these like the Japan mutual understanding... straight up false. Authors who never left home, I'm afraid.
Load More Replies...I'm Cornish and can't comprehend 90% of this list. Also kind of offended for Americans as it's just a bollocks post seemingly digging at Americans. Just doesn't make sense
BP, I'm all in favour of a bit of good-natured mickey-taking, but please try to do better than this. As someone else has pointed out: why not go for the funny, warm, positive stuff?
BP, if you are going to try to charge people to look at your articles, why put out sheer dreck like this?
Absolute trash. Some of these are so obscure it's annoying. US phobic name calling by teenagers ignorant of the world I guess. I'm in the UK and I'm ashamed if these are the best Europeans can muster. The UK food examples are particularly egregious given they are clearly regional cuisine not national.
I seriously think many of those who created these need to visit the US and not just watch US shows on TV.
They think all Americans are from the backwoods or something.
Load More Replies...Yes yes all Americans are so stupid and uncultured 🙄 I am so sick of these articles
OOOOOH! Let's make the Americans look like morons! You are dangerously close to losing me over your incessant bashing of both the US and the 'boomers' who reside here, BP.
Don't worry Americans! Not all Europeans have two braincells like it is shown in this thread ❤️❤️ I love you all!
Dear US Pandas, even though l didn't write this post of almighty shït, I apologise for it's existence. If I had written it, I would expect to get banned for hate speech.
Where's the stupid poll they like to put at the end of articles now? Nm....I'll make one.
Not an American but I agree this article was a waste of time. After the first 20, I skipped the whole thing
A lot if these were just pictures and no explanation. How are people supposed to know what we are comprehending?
In British and I found this post negative and boring and gave up about a third of the way through. Surprised I got that far tbh!
They keep using that word (comprehend). I do not think it means what they think it means.
The reason BP regurgitates Twitter and Reddit posts like this is because WE (myself included) in this posts. We get triggered and we argue and chastise BP for sharing divisive nonsense and it's all engagement that means they will continue to post. People have to choose to ignore these in order to stop them.
I'm trying to figure out how to configure my Google News feed so that the only Bored Panda items I see are the good ones—those about cats. And these people think we're going to pay them for "Premium" — 𝑺𝑵𝑶𝑹𝑻!
Why is this in the top of my favorites when it's at -69. Tired of all the same America bashing. At least be funny and not repeating the same 4 made up anti-American jokes. I come to BP because they *don't* do that. No sense coming here otherwise. It's all 3 days late memes otherwise.
I logged in just to say most of this is inaccurate or actually downright common in America. Also some statements are just falsely made blanket statements about countries other than America. This article sucks and clearly the people have never left their hometown if they think these things are so rare.
This American mind can't comprehend the idiot who compiled this list... have they ever been to the US? FFS... one of the worst BP posts yet. Seriously.
If you're going to America bash BP at least make an effort. This article is pathetic.
Don't worry, it'll be Brit bashing tomorrow, "boomer" bashing the day after that, "What men find (insert word here) about women", "what women find (insert word here) about men", Gen X/Y/Z bashing, then back to America bashing and so ad infinitum.
Load More Replies...Bored Panda. This was by far the dumbest load of America bashing I've seen. Please can we stop this and focus on good stuff from America.
It wasn't focusing on negative stuff from America I don't think. Just focusing on positive stuff from other cultures and then stupidly assuming Americans don't have that stuff. Obviously written by someone who hasn't seen very much of America.
Load More Replies...Hey, BP: instead of trying to divide people, single people out, irritate people just to get more comments, why don't you go back to kind of content you had when I first starting coming to BP. Back then, the content was cute, funny, warm, positive. This was known as one of the most positive places on the net, which is why I came here: to escape my crippling depression. But recently, all I see here is negativity. Couldn't you have found a way to present these pictures without bashing Americans? BP: you can do better.
Absolutely! The last few years, BP has really gone downhill.
Load More Replies...One of the worst set BP has ever published. Did the leadership of BP change?
No, they're just desperately trying to be Buzfeed, TMZ and Ebaum's World rolled into one
Load More Replies...Yes, make a list about "Trump's mind can't comprehent this:" but I fear the list would be several thousand entries long
Load More Replies...I am American, and therefore have an American mind. And it can comprehend every one of these things.
Presumably, Americans are the only group that it's socially acceptable to insult casually. Kinda rude, if you ask me!
Load More Replies...Are the people who picked these pics raving idiots? Because most of these are fairly normal in the US, some originated in the US, and others are myths perpetrated by people who have idea what the US is
Or clearly what other countries are as well. Several of these like the Japan mutual understanding... straight up false. Authors who never left home, I'm afraid.
Load More Replies...I'm Cornish and can't comprehend 90% of this list. Also kind of offended for Americans as it's just a bollocks post seemingly digging at Americans. Just doesn't make sense
BP, I'm all in favour of a bit of good-natured mickey-taking, but please try to do better than this. As someone else has pointed out: why not go for the funny, warm, positive stuff?
BP, if you are going to try to charge people to look at your articles, why put out sheer dreck like this?
Absolute trash. Some of these are so obscure it's annoying. US phobic name calling by teenagers ignorant of the world I guess. I'm in the UK and I'm ashamed if these are the best Europeans can muster. The UK food examples are particularly egregious given they are clearly regional cuisine not national.
I seriously think many of those who created these need to visit the US and not just watch US shows on TV.
They think all Americans are from the backwoods or something.
Load More Replies...Yes yes all Americans are so stupid and uncultured 🙄 I am so sick of these articles
OOOOOH! Let's make the Americans look like morons! You are dangerously close to losing me over your incessant bashing of both the US and the 'boomers' who reside here, BP.
Don't worry Americans! Not all Europeans have two braincells like it is shown in this thread ❤️❤️ I love you all!
Dear US Pandas, even though l didn't write this post of almighty shït, I apologise for it's existence. If I had written it, I would expect to get banned for hate speech.
Where's the stupid poll they like to put at the end of articles now? Nm....I'll make one.
Not an American but I agree this article was a waste of time. After the first 20, I skipped the whole thing
A lot if these were just pictures and no explanation. How are people supposed to know what we are comprehending?
In British and I found this post negative and boring and gave up about a third of the way through. Surprised I got that far tbh!
They keep using that word (comprehend). I do not think it means what they think it means.
The reason BP regurgitates Twitter and Reddit posts like this is because WE (myself included) in this posts. We get triggered and we argue and chastise BP for sharing divisive nonsense and it's all engagement that means they will continue to post. People have to choose to ignore these in order to stop them.
I'm trying to figure out how to configure my Google News feed so that the only Bored Panda items I see are the good ones—those about cats. And these people think we're going to pay them for "Premium" — 𝑺𝑵𝑶𝑹𝑻!
Why is this in the top of my favorites when it's at -69. Tired of all the same America bashing. At least be funny and not repeating the same 4 made up anti-American jokes. I come to BP because they *don't* do that. No sense coming here otherwise. It's all 3 days late memes otherwise.
I logged in just to say most of this is inaccurate or actually downright common in America. Also some statements are just falsely made blanket statements about countries other than America. This article sucks and clearly the people have never left their hometown if they think these things are so rare.
This American mind can't comprehend the idiot who compiled this list... have they ever been to the US? FFS... one of the worst BP posts yet. Seriously.