Are All Americans . . .

[Buenchico]

. . . completely bonkers or just 99% of them?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-56861212

[LadyCG]

What a twonk!

[Buenchico]

^^^ Short and sweet - but entirely accurate, LadyCG ;-)

[royfromaus]

Awwwwww it's a boy...bless.

[jno]

I never met a Yank I didn't like, except for a snooty waitress in the backwoods of Massachusetts. I imagine gender reveal parties will soon be everywhere here, like Halloween. (Yes, I know Halloween is an old British custom but it barely existed till it was re-imported from the States.)

[Buenchico]

We already seem to getting 'baby showers' here in the UK, even before reaching the stage for 'gender reveals', Jno!

[jno]

very true, Buenchico.

I'd love to see something like Thanksgiving here - an uncommercial celebration where people just get together with their families.

[Apc2604]

I suppose we can do that anyway Jno! We don't need a special day
Do the Americans not have thanksgiving cards, etc. Surely there must be some commercial profit?

As for baby showers, I wouldn't attend on principle. I remember my Mum coming back from visiting relatives in Canada in the 60s and telling me she had been to one. She was amazed!

[Apc2604]

PS. I can't stand Turkey, so is it essential at Thanksgiving ;o)

[calmck]

Turkey not essential. Ham usually served as well

[Apc2604]

It would have to be beef for me.

I wonder what we would be celebrating on a British thanksgiving day. Perhaps Brexit or Scotland leaving the UK!

[pastafreak]

I had a baby shower...many, many years ago. Then, it was an opportunity for women to gather together, for an expectant mum to be pampered a bit, and for her to be set up with all the basics she needed for her new baby.
I'm sure baby showers on either side of the pond are far more elaborate now...they weren't then.

[Bazile]

Oh right

I thought a baby shower was a miniature shower for babies

[piggynose]

I thought a baby shower was when the baby pees itself during its nappy being changed.

[RobNorth]

No, they are no more bonkers than we are, but have always had that extra hype. We have many strange customs, like hordes of people running with half barrels of blazing tar perched on their heads, or chasing cheese down an improbably steep slope. There are probably hundreds more, many of them dangerous and which nobody understands, least of all us. On average, Americans are much more conservative than we are.

[Mamyalynne]

We have wellie wanging, they have eating contests.