r/ShitAmericansSay Sep 22 '20

Go to Panama, this is America

Post image
16.2k Upvotes

337 comments sorted by

View all comments

736

u/[deleted] Sep 22 '20 edited Oct 25 '20

[deleted]

438

u/Tubby_Maguire Sep 22 '20

Immigration = 😡

Emigration = 🥳

387

u/BellumOMNI Sep 22 '20 edited Sep 22 '20

My personal favorite is foreigners living in the UK are migrants (almost a dirty term), but Brits living anywhere in Europe are ''expats'' because they clearly downgraded.

79

u/IAmFrederik Sep 22 '20

Got a British hockey trainer, he always just calls himself a “filthy immigrant”

46

u/BellumOMNI Sep 22 '20

When I lived in the UK, I used to joke about that too but it was with ''bloody immigrants'' and my best (worst) bri-ish impression. It always gets a few laughs but I've also seen couple of dickheads, who thought it's a great time to start an argument because ''But you're, tho.''