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OMG, give me one that's kinda sorta shaped like the Americas and it fulfils all my needs.

A good twist spoiled can ruin a movie, while a bad twist spoiled can save a movie. More often than not, it will make no difference. More than anything, it depends on what I want from the story. I seek out spoilers for Arrow and Doctor Who but I actively avoid them for Person of Interest. Much...

How do you define a cafeteria-style restaurant? Bad food buffet?

I used a purple worm for the first time (that I remember) the other day. The PCs took one look at it and ran away, which may be a first for my games (not running away, but doing so immediately). So I didn't really get a chance to play it, but I guess I sold it pretty well.

In Iceland "business wear" is hardly a thing (other than 'tidy'). Unless you're expecting foreigners.

Brits totally have the best ads.* Nobody is allowed to boast about anything, so it's like a national competition in what brand can make fun of itself the best. * Brit TV in general is the envy of the world (unless you ask a Brit).

Well, that's also firmly American, Subway and cheez-whip and such, but it's not cheese.

Oh, to clarify, although when Icelanders think of American cheese they think "cheddar", that doesn't mean that they think Americans only have cheddar (which is, btw, not the same of what I think of as UK cheese, which is tougher, even though that appears to be [the original] cheddar). It means...

After some googling: American cheese = processed cheese? Like the stuff you get at Subway, right? We have that as well. We just call that "fake cheese".

Yeah, I assumed it was something like that here, but apparently not. I suspect, though, that if it started becoming a thing, it would be made illegal for those very reasons.

What's American cheese like? Everything "American" that comes with cheese comes with cheddar, which is probably what creates this perception. I know, googling that is what prompted my comment. Shocked!

Hah! I am shocked to find out that Cheddar isn't in the US. Over here, "cheddar" means "American cheese". But we've been going through this over the last ten years because of EFTA. I grew up with gouda, which turns out isn't gouda at all. Turns out it bears little resemblance to actual gouda...

Pharmaceutical ads! We just don't have those. I thought they might be illegal here (like alcohol ads), so I checked. Nope. We just don't have them.

My biggest moment of fear and panic was not for my own safety, but for my younger brother's. It was 13 years ago on New Years Eve, that I took my 5 year old brother outside to shoot up some fireworks (I was 17). I ordered my brother to keep a clear distance as I shot fireworks from a stand. It...

Isn't that just the general devaluation of degrees in western society? It also used to be an accomplishment to graduate "high school" here, giving you a considerable edge in the job market (and life in general). With rising prosperity, by the mid-70s pretty much everyone graduated high school...

High School. Grade school seems pretty normal to what one would expect, but High School... just about everything about it, other than it being full of teens and teachers, seems alien to me. American colleges seem like what I'd expect from High School aged kids and there's never anything...

As someone who works in the tourist industry, I would like to mount a defense on behalf of American tourists. As a whole, American tourists are just the nicest.* Just the friendliest people. They often come off as ignorant, but only because they're so continually amazed at anything different...

I don't think national theme parties are inherently racist, although they totally can be. That I remember, I've been to Greek, Japanese, Hawaiian and Denmark themed parties--the only one of those I would think of possibly offensive was the danish one, which was rather offensive, since that was...

Those pictures look about right. Never gone a to a US-themed party, but if I were, my expectations would be somewhat akin to those pictures. On the cups: Yeah, I'm sure it's just a movie thing, but I've never seen those kind of cups in the wild. Only in Hollywood media. Plastic beer cups tend...

None. But that's not a save, but a check (according to my previous definition). If you unknowingly walk into a trap, I may call for a Save, and if you succeed, I may narrate that as "You notice the trap a split-second before it triggers and dodge the enormous blade swinging across the room."...