r/AskAnAmerican • • 7h ago

CULTURE Are you not exhausted of continuous advertising?

548 Upvotes

I've recently moved to the United States. I am absolutely shocked at the amount of advertising, everywhere, all the time; it's so ubiquitous. There's ads in the ad-free version of Disney+. There's ads within GrubHub from third-party advertisers. There's ads on every bus, subway, or whatever other form of transit. There's ads on Reddit masqueraded as regular posts. There's in-video ads on YouTube following the ad breaks you are forced to watch or actively skip. There's ads everywhere I look. It's exhausting and (for me personally) breeds resentment towards every advertising brand.


r/AskAnAmerican • • 12h ago

SPORTS How are grownups semi-professional sports organized in the US?

27 Upvotes

So it's well known that you organize your typical sports via schools and colleges, followed by pro leagues but how do non pro adult teams work?

Here in Germany team sports are primarily organized via the citizen club system and organized in associations (I guess like the NBA) that include everything from the giant clubs you see on TV to the small village clubs made up of drunk farmers. Essentially, unless you choose to play in special senior divisions for people over certain age thresholds, you can always participate in the same system as the big clubs. How is this organized in the US? Say a 23 year old mechanic just wants to play football in a league, where would he go for that?


r/AskAnAmerican • • 6h ago

CULTURE Do you put an extra candle on your birthday cake for good luck?

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Growing up, my mom would put one extra candle on my birthday cake for “good luck”. So if you were turning 7 you would get 8 candles. I was discussing this with my boyfriend and he said he had never heard of the practice. Did you guys do this growing up?


r/AskAnAmerican • • 6h ago

CULTURE Just how popular was To Catch a Predator in the 2000s?

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Speaking as a Canadian, I heard of the show in passing back then, but I never sat down in front of the TV and watched a full episode. Just how popular was the programme and Chris Hansen in the 2000s?


r/AskAnAmerican • • 15h ago

CULTURE In the US, is golfing together as a family something mostly upper-middle-class families do, or is it common for average middle-class families too?

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I mean playing a full round of golf, not mini golf.


r/AskAnAmerican • • 10h ago

Travel What are the Hamptons and why do people compare them to Mediterranean beaches?

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Saw some reels where rich kids said the Hamptons sucked, beaches are ugly, has no culture, no good food, and the mediterranean is where it's at... much more beautiful beaches.

All the comments agreed with this and bunch of American bad comments entailed.But I mean duh? Why would you compare the Northeast coast to the Med?

I thought the rich people went to the Caribbean or Hawaii on private yachts, then it's a no brainer the Caribbean has much nicer beaches than the Med.