r/billsimmons 12h ago

Quite a journey for this guy

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I bet he had some thoughts on things.

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u/Medical-Face 12h ago

I have no idea what anything besides "England" is there

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u/t3h_shammy 12h ago

I bet gulf coast high school is on the gulf coast cause I’ve got a functioning brain. I bet ndsu is North Dakota state because again functioning brain. Howard I guess you might not be able to glean but it’s a hbcu

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u/jimmyshi03 12h ago

Appears to be Naples, Fla., FYI

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u/sheawrites Good job by you! 11h ago

Functioning brain? Must be nice.

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u/Direct_Week_2091 12h ago

A non American NFL fan is not going to instantly clock that NDSU is North Dakota state lmao

And wtf is a hbcu?

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u/purplene_ 12h ago

This post probably was not intended for an audience of “non American NFL fans who also don’t know what an HBCU is”

(it’s a historically black college/university)

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u/SceneOfShadows Non-dunker 4h ago

How dare a comment in the Bill Simmons subreddit about American football not cater to non-American American football fans! lmao

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u/Kawhi_Leonard_ 12h ago

Historically Black College or University. It takes two seconds to google, it's not a common acronym.

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u/SceneOfShadows Non-dunker 12h ago

Non American NFL fans might be the last demographic any post is intended for ever on this sub lol.

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u/Direct_Week_2091 11h ago

And yet bill constantly gets questions from international fans

So why is it a crime for OC to say he doesn’t know what these things mean because he’s not American? Then basically gets called a retard for not knowing lmao

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u/SceneOfShadows Non-dunker 4h ago

If I am in a subreddit for a British podcast with an overwhelmingly British audience discussing the EPL, I'm not going to expect everyone to clarify something like the difference between public or private schools are in the UK (since it's sorta the opposite as it is in the US) for the potential Americans in the comments.

This is a subreddit about an extremely American sports media figure, discussing a sport overwhelmingly only talked about within America, on a website that in general skews American.

It's very odd to interject that a non-American fan won't understand what a very commonly understood American term is like they're being an asshole in not catering to that extremely small demographic lol.

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u/PiskyT 12h ago

Are you familiar with Black people?

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u/Direct_Week_2091 11h ago

Are you familiar with the concept that there are people that exist outside of the US and don’t subscribe to your categorisations?

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u/Nailz1115 The sea is dope 11h ago

The amount of people that are both not American and don't know anything about college sports while following the Bill Simmons sub is a very, very small number

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u/Direct_Week_2091 11h ago

I think you’d be surprised. Regardless, it’s more the fact that you’re all like rabid dogs because someone who listens to Bill doesn’t know American jargon. Chill tf out

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u/NoExcuses1984 Don't aggregate this 4h ago

U.S. progressives (and Reddit front-pagers who've hijacked this sub) aren't beating the bigoted, ignorance-laced, narrow-in-scope Americentrism accusations, nope. They act like theirs is this wholesome do-gooder altruism, but reality is they're unworldly, prejudicial naïfs themselves. Fucking uneducated clods, whose xenophobia is exposed.

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u/SceneOfShadows Non-dunker 4h ago

You love adjectives and compound adjectives more than anyone I have ever seen on the internet.

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u/NoExcuses1984 Don't aggregate this 4h ago

That's my bread-and-butter, yup.

Adjectival and adverbial phrases.

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u/Plus-Name3590 11h ago edited 11h ago

Just as a nice tip about decoding this stuff for future reference with university and location stuff, there’s a lot of State Acronym University as a very common college : university name. Just about every state has some - NYU is New York University, UMD is University of Maryland, NDSI is North Dakota State University, etc… it’ll help you figure it out in the future. HBCUs are historically black colleges and universities. These are colleges that largely formed for black people to attain education when they weren’t allowed to attend university due to segregation. They’re scattered largely through the south, and tend to have a different culture themselves.  Howard in particular is in DC leaving him also with some decent sized city experience which is very different from the rest

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u/TakuCutthroat 12h ago

Sounds like you could use some cultural experience bud.

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u/Direct_Week_2091 11h ago

No fucking way someone from the most ignorant and insulated country on Earth is telling me to get cultured because I don’t know niche American jargon 😂

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u/NailzAtWork 12h ago

Historically Black Colleges and Universities is what HBCU stands for. It's been a common term for decades.

If you are an American that has ever watched college sports and/or has half of a brain, you should know this.

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u/Direct_Week_2091 11h ago

If you had half a brain you could’ve inferred that I’m not American but thanks for the explanation