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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neither can the minds of almost every other country where bagged milk isn´t a thing. like my german mind.
In the '80s early '90s was common in Germany too, at least in the former East-Germany. As well as in most post-soviet countries. In some of them bagged-milk or choco-milk or caramel-milk heavy cream is still there.
Load More Replies...I certainly can't comprehend keeping milk in a container that can't be sealed.
There's a thin notch on the pitcher near the corner that is cut off. You just push the corner into the notch and it nicely seals the bag.
Load More Replies...Agreed. Waxed cardboard cartons or glass bottles are not only better for the environment, but also for human health.
Load More Replies...Life long Ontarian here, and I've moved away from bagged milk. I prefer the resealable cartons.
Load More Replies...Another one that's not true. Cool that milk is still sold that way in Canada, but that's how millions of Americans got their milk from milk men in the 60's and 70's.
The milkman delivered our milk in glass bottles. I've never seen plastic bag milk in real life. American here.
Load More Replies...We still have bagged milk in Spain but it has a much shorter shelf life than the one in the carton and it's impractical, though better tasting
I have bought bagged milk in Denmark in recent years and simply transfered to 1 liter glass bottles from IKEA. It is much easier to pour from a glass bottle and you can better see if the milk has gone bad.
I would never get a bag of milk home without poking a hole in it somehow
Keep it. Cardboard is easier to recycle than plastic, and you can't get the missing kid's faces to print as easily on a bag.
Waxed cardboard like what milk cartons are made of can't be recycled.
Load More Replies...I hear they’re getting rid of bagged milk in Ontario which will cause a rebellion!
I'll admit it's baffling. We saw rows of bagged milk in the cooler in Ontario, and could not figure out how it would be poured. A New York relative explained that there was a decanter to hold and serve the milk. Still baffles me!
I grew up in Lansing, Michigan (late 60's, early 70's). Quality Dairy did this, not sure if they still do.
UK supermarkets bought it in years ago (I used to work in Sainsbury's) but it wasn't a big success so they stopped selling it.
Load More Replies...We had it in Australia for a while in the 1970s, but it never really caught on.
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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.
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.
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.