Conventions. That’s what kept the US somewhat sane, until it didn’t. How is that going again?

Broken finger. Brilliant!

And that is my point! Or half of it, I should say. I’ve made too many comments in this thread to keep track of myself. Contextually it works, but that doesn’t make it more suitable than American as that works equally well. No one that isn’t trying to be obtuse will think you mean Mexican when you say American, even though it is technically as correct.

It was a retorical question. :)

That issue would be on them, if it is an issue. Not sure it matters for the argument at hand.

Agreed. And correct. We are not disagreeing. :)

"Saying someone is a United Statesian or Statesian is probably the closest to how other countries like Canada (Canadian) or Mexico (Mexican) refer to themselves. If we forget that pretty much all other countries are a unity of states, counties, and or provinces. "

I was refering to this part of your post. United Statesian or Statesian doesn’t make sense to correlate to Mexicans. They are both united states. As for Canada, I think they might be a confederacy and thus united states as well, but I also believe their semi-official name is actually Canada.

As for most countries being united of sorts, I’m willing to accept that as an axiom, but I’m doubtful it is part of their cultural identity in the majority of cases. Maybe on a per capita basis.

At this point, I think we should just call US people Indian.

They will. They will also know if you say you are from America. My point was that one is no better than the other, from an accuracy point of view. Both have multiple meanings.

I’m assuming Washingtonian would be refering to the man, not the state that refers to the man. I mean, it’s a silly name, but not for the reason you state.

You do know it is actually named “the United Mexican States”, right? The name of the US is simply bad from the beginning and sometimes you can’t fix bad. Unless they take over all of the Americas, I guess. Then it’s a good name. Bad move, but good name.

But not more States, united or not…?

Opening, middle, end… Much like removeds, there just is so much to love.

Tax transfers to those countries to the ever-loving-shit degree. Want to move money to this tax paradise? Sure. We take 90%. Not on profit. On transfer. Let’s see them work around that. Want to move it to a country that doesn’t have the same rules? Sure. We take 90% of that.

I’ve never been able to quite let go of that movie. It’s very on-the-nose but still hits home. So many of us are what we see as the bad guys in the movie; just move it all down to earth and there we are.

Maybe there isn’t one…

The word “legitimate” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there, bro.

I can do it to. Selectively by ear. This article seem to consider it highly unusual

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24289817/#%3A~%3Atext=Voluntary+control+over+the+tensor%2Cthe+diagnosis+of+hearing+disorders

but from the last time I saw this skill making the internet rounds, it’s not entirely unusual, as far as I can remember. It had comorbidity with easily being startled or something as well. If you are curious, a few minutes of search or AIing should have the correct information.

You can push liquid through them too. Makes it look like you are crying milk/blood/whatever.

Shit happens. As long as he comes back nude, no one is the wider. (Taps head.)