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Windsorite Susan Taylor was at Toast, ready to pay for her breakfast when she was told the bill had been covered.

“The waitress made an announcement in the restaurant that this lovely couple in the corner is paying for everyone who is in the restaurant at the time for breakfast,” Taylor told AM800’s Mornings with Mike and Meg.

“She (the donor) said that she was American, and she just wanted to apologize,” said Taylor.

“She said she knows that their president has caused a rift in what was happening between our countries, and she wanted us to know that not all Americans are bad people.”

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Wonder if there's a Ukrainian restaurant in that town.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Unfortunately that got taken over by Russians a couple years ago.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

Well that sucks. :/

[–] [email protected] 30 points 19 hours ago (9 children)

I'll pay for my own - go and fix your country

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

How funny, that's what they tend to say to immigrants.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (3 children)

Of all countries the US should apologize to, I don't think Canada makes to the top 50, but I'm not gonna lead a gift horse to water

[–] AA5B 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Why not? While our government is treating other countries and their people worse, it’s not as uncalled for. While most of the chaos is self-instigated for very little reason, there’s just no logic to attacking Canada and so many reasons not to.

It’s like saying we have a nice neighbor who we’ve always got along with and who always helps out, but it’s not worth apologizing for spitting in their face for no reason, because we started a fire at that house down the street with the family whose customs we don’t understand

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

I didn't mean an apology isn't owed, I meant there's a very long line of people waiting.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

but they aren't first world nations that talk about it on Lemmy so they aren't as important.

/s

[–] [email protected] 29 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The US needs to apologize to the whole world at this point. It's an absolute embarrassment

[–] [email protected] 36 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I’m not gonna lead a gift horse to water

What a joyously adorable mix of proverbs. This made me smile.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I beleive that's called a Malapropism A favorite malapropism of mine is "We'll burn that bridge when we get to it."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

It's close, and malapropisms are great too, but they rely on a similar-sounding incorrect word being used in place of the correct word, usually resulting in hilarity. Your example is also hilarious, but I don't think it counts as a malapropism, not to get all linguistically technical (okay, I will lol). Rick Perry saying states are "lavatories of innovation and democracy" instead of "laboratories" is a perfect and awesome example.

The genius of @[email protected]'s comment was that they combined two relevant proverbs into a single equally relevant but hilarious one: "You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink" + "Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth" = brilliance

[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Now WE’RE the ones who say sorry all the time.

[–] tomi000 25 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Worked pretty well for us Germans. Im sure in 80-100 years everyone will have forgotten about your egomaniac fascist starting a world war because there will be a new even worse fascist somewhere else.

[–] chronicledmonocle 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Look on the bright side: Germans will soon no longer be associated with Nazis.

Unfortunately, it'll just have moved to Americans.

[–] tomi000 10 points 16 hours ago

Unfortunately, I think theyre on the rise just about everywhere. The US was just the first to go all in full fascist.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 22 hours ago (9 children)

I dunno, Japan makes a point to not apologize and they get less flak than Germany

Though I guess the last PM they had who was a dick about it got some flak, rapidly accelerated from a doohickey

[–] [email protected] 20 points 21 hours ago

Japan only gets less flak from western countries. They get a lot of flak across Asia.

PM only got doohickeyed after retiring.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Any people from the states who want to send money over to me also appreciated

[–] PumpkinEscobar 48 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Sorry, all my money is about to be tied up in tariffs. If you could send me money, that would be swell.

[–] ripcord 6 points 18 hours ago

Tariffs and unemployment.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How about eggs. You can pay for shipping?

[–] MeekerThanBeaker 9 points 23 hours ago

We've moved on to turtle eggs. They're not too bad. Pre-salted.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have a couple of American boomers friends and they sent a few messages apologizing and saying they didn’t vote for Trump and they don’t agree with his policies etc.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Slightly less than a third of registered voters actually voted for him. The majority sat the election out.

[–] shplane 12 points 17 hours ago

Truly our greatest tradition

[–] xc2215x 20 points 1 day ago

A nice gesture.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago
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