HEY OP, YOU CAN'T JUST ACCUSE AN ENTIRE NATION OF HAVING THICK NECKS AND DISAPPEAR WITHOUT ELABORATING. DO I HAVE A THICK NECK!?
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Sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of your ginormous neck.
I HAVE NIPPLES GREG!! COULD YOU MILK ME?!?!
Can you share example pictures what you mean?
I was hoping for that comment. I'm lost.
I'm lost
See the problem here is that you aren't aware the americabad
As an american, I find this thread extremely entertaining but also perplexing. Now I want to see side-by-side comparisons of photos of americans and photos of non-americans. As others have said this is nothing I've ever noticed, but now I want to know if this is actually a thing or not.
This is interesting. Even skinny Americans? I've never heard this, but I have heard you can tell someone is American because people from elsewhere don't lean on things when standing.
People from other countries also usually don't expose their entire set of teeth when smiling...
I am an american and I have lived here my whole life, and I never got this. Almost every person I know IRL except me smiles with all their teeth out like a fucking demented shark or something, and if I dont show my teeth like Im about to bite someone then other people chide in like "come on you arent even smiling!". For some reason americans just bare all their teeth like dogs when we smile and its disgusting and weird
Would it be wrong to assume you are self-conscious about your teeth (crooked, missing, etc)? This is the case with every American I know that doesn't like to smile on photos, although sometimes they're people who are happy to do full-burst laughter showing all in small trusted group settings.
I have very white, straight teeth (always get complimented, itβs weird) yet I canβt stand smiling in photos either. I always look like a dementor or serial killer; a natural smile? Sure but posing for the camera all cheesy? Hell no
I don't know if this is the case with you but if you have naturally wide eyes (say, anxiety for example) then a full tooth smile is creepy looking. Relaxed eyes on the other hand (think pictures of happily stoned people) are fine showing full mouth IMO.
Although some people "grit" or "bare(/bear?)" their teeth in an attempt to fake a natural laughter smile and... no. The muscles around the mouth should be relaxed not tense. There's no substitute for a candid laughter smile. But not many people can fake the crows feet in the eyes of a real smile, so if someone is more comfortable smiling with no teeth showing, that's more than fine.
I've done a bit of photography in my day.
If I can think of something funny on the spot and laugh a little bit I feel less creepy, but sometimes itβs just difficult to do that right then and there.
As for bearing(?) the teeth, a few times I caught myself doing this unintentionally as I get older; I always feel like an idiot afterward because Iβve always known this isnβt the way. It could be due to the fact that Iβm (happily) rarely involved in these sort of photos as life goes on.
Im not particularly conscious and I do sometimes smile with some teeth showing, like if I was laughing super hard and my teeth just happened to be showing I wouldnt try to hide it. But if I am, say, taking a group photo, I dont smile with all my teeth out. Its just weird to me.
Two jokes I can make out of this. Which could dig at either US or EU/UK
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I paid for it, I'm gonna show it off.
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Have you seen the British?
dig at either US or EU/UK
Seems like that's the whole point of Lemmy.
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I rarely smile at all, but I sure will lean when the opportunity presents itself.
They don't lean on things? Even if there's a perfectly sturdy horse or fence.right next to you?
Horses, cows, fences, houses, nothing. They stand on two legs like bipedal humanoids.
Car culture is huge in the United States. Most folks I know drive everywhere even if it's only a mile away. Add fast food drive-throughs like McDonald's to this and you get obesity and thick "necks".
This guy looks like the βif humans evolved to survive high impact car crashesβ figure they made a while back.
This guy has literally no neck, not a fat neck. He can't look over his shoulder because his skill is attached to it.
He looks like Patrick from SpongeBob.
hey dont take ed down this road.
he is a very sensible, loving human beeing.
on the search for love....
(yes, my girlfriend likes to watch trash tv... and yes, I am rethinking sometimes my choices)
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It's where we store our excess Freedom
The Freedom release mechanism on the B52 is activated by a flex of the neck.
Adds stability when firing.
We're really fat
And in some places if youβre perfectly healthy youβll be harassed about needing to βput some meat on those bones.β
Guessing football and wrestling in high school, growth hormones in their meat, and an element of obesity. These are all guesses though, not shitting on the yanks.
When i was 16, two of my friends went to study in america for a year or so. They went individually and didn't know eachother. One of them cam back obese and the other one was shredded and gained like 20kg.
I had a French roommate that put on 20 lbs while on a three month tourist visa. He was actually pretty skinny but he was nervous about flying back because he knew his friends/family would give him shit for putting on so much weight.
At the same time, in his last few weeks he wanted to hit every burger joint he could before leaving. He even tried Mountain Dew just because vegetable bromide is illegal there.
They might like it.
This is me. Competitive swimming and wrestling as a youth, along with many years of rock climbing.
My upper back and neck is disproportionately larger than my lower torso and legs.
How many different populations have you observed this in? I've never observed this.
Because my trapezii are fuckin' jacked. Straight yoked. I've been working on my sternocliedomastoid form for years with some serious cervical reps. Glad someone noticed. 
that's where we store all our ~~oppression~~ freedom
You're looking at football fans, who obsess over overeating and competitive sports. While the US has a lot of those, they are not the only demographic.
Cop phrenology
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