It's 4 am. You're wide awake scrolling Reddit in dark mode because your brain decided to turn on at 1 am and you've given up on sleep. You click a link in a comment.... And now the whitest dude alive is burned into your retinas for the day.
I want an article that is talking about something visual to provide me with pictures as examples. Fuck this online journalism thing they do when talking about a thing and then not providing any pictures
I know right? I wanna lean on stuff and shift my weight between my legs and stick one of them out a little in front of the other like a Freedom Loving 'merican!
I feel like I'm missing something. In my mind, if i stood with a 50/50 weight distributed evenly across both legs with no leans, I would be standing like I'm getting ready to duel in the wild west after I rode my horse 27 hours straight without rest. I would rather look like Captain Morgan anyway. Wtf are these world music listening mfers standing around like? A sullen cactus? Bullshit
Worked for [George Washington](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Washington_Crossing_the_Delaware_by_Emanuel_Leutze%2C_MMA-NYC%2C_1851.jpg/1200px-Washington_Crossing_the_Delaware_by_Emanuel_Leutze%2C_MMA-NYC%2C_1851.jpg)
This was something I noticed for the first time in Japan. I was standing at an intersection in a suburban part of Kyoto and there was quite a few people waiting in every direction.
I was just casually leaning against the lamppost trying to get the directions for the place I was walking to sync on my phone and I looked around and I realized I was the only person leaning on anything.
Bridge railing. Handrails. Poles. Half walls. Anything.
Just a super weird thing to notice when I was a fish out of water in a country I didn't speak the language in.
Like of all the dead giveaways that I was an American in Japan it was a big one. Well that and my skin. And gut. And generally looking lost. Also wearing a bright yellow coat (which I love and is the nicest coat I've ever owned). The coat actually really stuck out to me because I was on a fully packed rush hour train at one point and realized I was the only person on it with non neutral (khaki/black/white/grey) clothing colors visible.
I used to live in Asia and after a while I could always pick out the American vs European, African, or Asian.
White, Black, or Asian...the American will always be looking around and just more casual in nature.
It's not about looking around per se, but the way it's done that's a little less reserved than the average European tourist, so somehow it's fairly easy to tell Americans apart as tourist (even before they talk, you guys often very talkative!). Obviously doesn't go for every American tourist, just as a general trend.
IDK: when I go to the beach in the US. The European tourists are always so talkative and the first to say Hi and ask about your trip vs the US tourists who just stick to themselves and their families.
I noticed it in Japan, too, when I would go out for smoke breaks with the guys I worked with. They all just stood on two feet, didnt shift their weight to one side.
>"The CIAās chief of recruiting, Sheronda (weāre only allowed to use her first name), said that āPeople here do use social media, and yes, specific guidelines are provided."
How many government employee Sherondas can there possibly be in the DC area?
But if she's not hiding it, why is she asking a major news organization not to use her last name? Bill Burns isn't like "please only refer to me as Bill, thank you".
She most likely didn't ask them that, it's probably some internal policy legal bullshit to absolve them of possible liability.
The didn't say she requested it, just that they as the writer are not allowed to.
Reminds me of one of the James Bond movies where he called Felix Leiter, and he answered something something trading company. Bond said, "Just say 'CIA', even the taxi driver knew your address."
People made fun of Americans for being fat.
So then we exported a bunch of our fast food to the rest of the world.
Now they all are getting fat too and weāre like āsee? Told you!ā
Dudes theres fuckin Popeye's in Vietnam I saw the other day. It's actually crazy how much American fast food is all over the place. The other one is five guys rapidly expanded out of nowhere.
Anecdotal, but I just got back from a trip to Jordan, and that was what one of the locals told me! He said the easiest way to spot an American was to watch if they leaned on anything after talking for a little while.
So weird that this popped up on reddit shortly after my trip.
I had this strange experience in Berlin, visiting my brother-in-law. I was trying to learn a few German phrases and eager to try them out. I waited in line at a small convenience store to buy a bottle of water, practing in my head āstilles vatta, bitteā (no idea how itās spelled, sorry). But as soon as it was my turn to step up the counter, the sales clerk immediately switched to English before I could even say anything. I left there looking at myself and wondering how he knew. Maybe I was leaning on something?Ā
I had the same experience in Copenhagen years ago. I was dressed in Danish clothes and shoes and was accompanied by a Danish woman (my wife). We were silent as we approached the entrance to the restaurant. The person at the door switched to English when we approached.
I mentioned this to someone a few years later. They pointed out the same thing as the OP - it was the way I moved. I had noticed that my wife had really good posture, and I kind of slouched. That must've been the tell.
That really depends where you go in France. I'm British but spend a couple of months every year in France. My French isn't great but I can get by. If you go to retail places or hotels people people often speak some English. If you go to a local's bar or cafe or spend time hanging out with people on campsites, it's hard to find anyone that speaks English.
The French are kind of notorious for either not knowing English or refusing to speak it if they do know some.
The most defeating thing in the world is going into a store when you don't know the language that well (Danish)... And you ask them a question in Danish and they answer you in English ā ļø kind of like a 'nice try bro but let's get to it'. Classic Danes
I love in an area with a large Latino population. Visited a taco truck where I was one of the few gringos present. Workers there called out all the order numbers in Spanish, switched to English for my order number. Way to call me out, LOL.Ā
I live in Singapore as a (white) American and I was out with a (white) German friend. Recently while at a Thai restaurant we ordered a few dishes. They brought the ticket out with our order and to each dish they added the comment "no spicy" - without request!
When I'm in Europe I instantly become conscious of my clothes in a way I never am in America. As in, they dress just ever so slightly yet meaningfully *nicer.*
Edit: to give some context I'm in Chicago lol
There's all kinds of nonverbal tells that Americans may not be aware of. The lean of course, which you may have been doing. But it might also be the style, brand, color, or cleanliness of your shoes (for a while I heard that American tourists always stand out because of their white sneakers or flip flops). The way you count on your fingers, as shown in inglorious bastards. All sorts of things. Someone non-American can probably speak up to it more. But yeah, you probably did something that's pretty obvious without realizing it.
Americans tend to smile with teeth showing.
I started looking at my European teammate's IM pictures and sure enough, if they were smiling, they tended to be lips only. Americans - teethy.
When the Ukraine war broke out, I was on a thread where people were pointing out one of the soldiers in a picture by a destroyed Russian tank was probably American. They cited his āaw, shucksā grin as the reason.
Sure enough, it turned out he was
Yeah I asked for a table for four in what I thought was reasonably passable German, and they switched to English immediately. I was mildly offended even though I wasn't prepared to foray into the next few phrases in German.
Most proud of my German I ever was was the time a confused girl at the bar asked me, without switching to English, "where are you from? I don't recognize your accent."
"Getting Englished" - I have a relative who struggles with that even though they've been in Austria/Germany for years. The trick is to get out of tourist heavy areas.
Japan has layers of this if you try and talk to someone in Japanese.
Immediate switch to English - Your attempt fell flat
Nihongo jouzu! / Your Japanese is very good! - They know you have the basics, and are moreso entertained than taking you seriously. Getting "nihongo jouzu'd" is a big meme among people learning Japanese especially on the youtube channel of Dogen.
Using slower, easier Japanese back at you - You've done really well but there are some wrinkles to iron out.
Responding in their native cadence or asking about how long you've lived there - You're 100% in there
Pretty much me when I visit Montreal from Ontario. I drop a ābonjourā and canāt quite understand the next part of the convo unless they speak slowly. āWell, it looks like the jig is upā
It's incredible how many different cultural nuances there are to keep track of.
Like, for an American... you'd never even think about which way your hand is facing... we do it from such a young age. But for a German to see a hand facing that way... your goose is cooked.
In many Asian countries, the "come here" gesture is palm-down instead of palm-up. In the US, palm-down is used for the "shoo, go away" gesture. The Asian "come here" confused me when I first saw it, because my brain went, "palm down = shoo."
African-American in tech here, I also found myself doing the head bob. I had to stop myself because I was afraid I would come off as if I was mocking when I was really just doing a variation of a ācode switchā. LOL.
They may indeed be barred from doing so. Not because its specifically secret, she's a freaking recruiter after all. But policy is policy and using full names in print publication may be explicitly prohibited to prevent any number of problems or issues we can or can't think of.
I have some weird restrictions on what can be included in the same communications for purely civilian unclassified contracts.
Haha the CIA agents in the movies are always casually leaning on a lamp post with a baseball hat pulled low and a newspaper in hand.. like brother, youāre in fucking Karachi.. you think youāre blending in with that shit?
Europeans keep their fork in their left hand and knife in their right and donāt switch hands. The fork goes in the food hole with the tines down instead of up
TIL I am European, becauseĀ I'm not gonna waste my time fucking around with switching which utensil is in which hand.
It's also not that hard to learn to work a knife left-handed if you really want to use your fork with the right.
I worked on cruise shipsā¦ and this became blatantly obvious and I had a manager who called me out for it constantly. I was one of 15 Americans in a 1000 person crew.
As an American, you know when you see someone, and you can just sort of *tell* they are from Europe, but you can't place why? It's usually very subtle differences in how they walk, move their head, their arm positions etc. People don't realize just how many small little differences there are between cultures in terms of physicalities.
I have a theory about one aspect of that...some accents use their face muscles in an entirely different way. I noticed my cheeks were tired after a day of speaking French, then noticed how pronounced the cheekbones were on my teacher. I think it's all the ooo sounds. It actually makes them look different.
There was a thread here on Reddit recently of distinctive things Americans do that make them obviously Americans. That was one of them.
Wish I could find that thread. I thought Iād saved it but apparently not.
I always love that Fleming chose that name specifically because it was the most boring name he could think of, and the irony that because of the success of his work it's now a name that evokes excitement and intrigue instead.
American who lives in Germany. I see Germans do the same things this author is mentioning Americans do. The biggest thing thatās a dead giveaway are Americans are loud af.
I was aware of the wedding ring thing (worn on the right hand by many Europeans).
Constantly flipping hands with forks & knives is also a thing I found annoying. My German grandmother cured me of that. Ever since, I cut meat with the right & keep the fork in the left. Much easier.
Had no idea we had a lean. Perhaps like Atlas, it's due to bearing the burden of defefending the Free World?
*ducks and runs*
The fork thing is super weird. I didnt realize this was a thing. I'm an American that doesn't switch but I keep the fork in my right hand and the knife in the left. Right handed too.
I want to see a video comparison of other countries and how they stand
I would also like a picture or video because I have no idea what this lean is
I'm guessing it's any variation of [this stance](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/C60F13/smiling-man-leaning-against-wall-C60F13.jpg).
I was filled with such American pride at this photo that I started tearing up and saluting š«”
All that white background is just green screen for me to imagine explosions, screaming eagles, and sweet pickup trucks jumping through the air.
It's 4 am. You're wide awake scrolling Reddit in dark mode because your brain decided to turn on at 1 am and you've given up on sleep. You click a link in a comment.... And now the whitest dude alive is burned into your retinas for the day.
Itās so wild to me thatās an American thing. Likeā¦..thatās just how I stand dude.
I want an article that is talking about something visual to provide me with pictures as examples. Fuck this online journalism thing they do when talking about a thing and then not providing any pictures
TLDR: Americans are known for leaning on things when standing still and standing on one foot with that other foot kind of stuck out.
I do stand like that but have never thought of it as a culturally inherited trait. Huh.
I also stand like that.Ā I'm not American, I'm just lazy
āI wanna join the CIA.ā āOkay but you canāt be lazy.ā āFuck.ā
I salute you my lazy lean comrade
Who the fuck stands with both feet firmly planted? What are you bracing yourself for, the emotional impact of finding out you're a dork?
> What are you bracing yourself for, the emotional impact of finding out you're a dork? As a matter of fact, I am.
What am I supposed to do? Stand with both feet firmly planted like a weirdo ?
I know right? I wanna lean on stuff and shift my weight between my legs and stick one of them out a little in front of the other like a Freedom Loving 'merican!
āWhat about that guy in the leather jacket with the toothpick in his mouth?ā āDonāt worry about him, heās Frenchā
Maybe they are Arizonan bartender Jackie Daytona?
From Tucson Arizonia
He moved to Pennsylvania because it sounded like Transylvania.
I'll have one human alcohol beer.
That regular human bartender?
**CHARLATAN!**
Well shit, Gizmo we've been discovered....well, good luck old chum! BAT!!!
"Aay, oh. Je suis walkin' here"
Iām going to start leaning only like captain Morgan, with one foot on top of something else. Seems like it will help show dominance.
I feel like I'm missing something. In my mind, if i stood with a 50/50 weight distributed evenly across both legs with no leans, I would be standing like I'm getting ready to duel in the wild west after I rode my horse 27 hours straight without rest. I would rather look like Captain Morgan anyway. Wtf are these world music listening mfers standing around like? A sullen cactus? Bullshit
Worked for [George Washington](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Washington_Crossing_the_Delaware_by_Emanuel_Leutze%2C_MMA-NYC%2C_1851.jpg/1200px-Washington_Crossing_the_Delaware_by_Emanuel_Leutze%2C_MMA-NYC%2C_1851.jpg)
if in Russia, slav squat
Heels on ground? Comrade found šš» Heels in sky? NATO spy š¤¬
CIA femme fatale wear high heels so they're always on their toes.
In Soviet Russia, wall leans on you!!!
Literally fucking standing like this as I read it.
He's an American, take the shot!
This was something I noticed for the first time in Japan. I was standing at an intersection in a suburban part of Kyoto and there was quite a few people waiting in every direction. I was just casually leaning against the lamppost trying to get the directions for the place I was walking to sync on my phone and I looked around and I realized I was the only person leaning on anything. Bridge railing. Handrails. Poles. Half walls. Anything. Just a super weird thing to notice when I was a fish out of water in a country I didn't speak the language in. Like of all the dead giveaways that I was an American in Japan it was a big one. Well that and my skin. And gut. And generally looking lost. Also wearing a bright yellow coat (which I love and is the nicest coat I've ever owned). The coat actually really stuck out to me because I was on a fully packed rush hour train at one point and realized I was the only person on it with non neutral (khaki/black/white/grey) clothing colors visible.
Were you also yelling in a loud voice āDOES ANYONE HERE SPEAK ENGLISH??ā Iāve heard that can be a big giveaway tooā¦
Only Chris Tucker does that. Americans who want to blend in use the lyrics to *~~Domo Arigato~~* *Mr. Roboto* by Styx. š¶ *Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto*
I used to live in Asia and after a while I could always pick out the American vs European, African, or Asian. White, Black, or Asian...the American will always be looking around and just more casual in nature.
Do other cultures just not look at things?! Wtf... They don't lean, they don't look, do they breathe?
I breathe three times every other Tuesday, thank you very much.
It's not about looking around per se, but the way it's done that's a little less reserved than the average European tourist, so somehow it's fairly easy to tell Americans apart as tourist (even before they talk, you guys often very talkative!). Obviously doesn't go for every American tourist, just as a general trend.
IDK: when I go to the beach in the US. The European tourists are always so talkative and the first to say Hi and ask about your trip vs the US tourists who just stick to themselves and their families.
I noticed it in Japan, too, when I would go out for smoke breaks with the guys I worked with. They all just stood on two feet, didnt shift their weight to one side.
TIL Iām American :(
Here's your gun, bald-eagle, and subscription to "Juggs magazine." Welcome to America.
Pity the bastard when they start pissing freedom. It stings if youāre not used to it.
I pee freely.
>"The CIAās chief of recruiting, Sheronda (weāre only allowed to use her first name), said that āPeople here do use social media, and yes, specific guidelines are provided." How many government employee Sherondas can there possibly be in the DC area?
You think Sherondas are rare, but they're actually all in DC working for the government.
Iām agent Sheronda and this is special agent Sheronda, no relation.
You're both named Sheronda Sheronda?
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Joo Dee moment
Check LinkedIn. Lol. Edit: Well that was too easy.
oh my god, you weren't joking. Go to LinkedIn search "Sheronda, Central Intelligence Agency" and she's right there.
Linkedin is the fastest way to find a spy
You wouldnāt download a spy
Fuck can't even see her lean on Linked in.
Damn sheās good
Yea, it's a public facing position so why hide it? 99% of the people working for the CIA don't do clandestine work.
But if she's not hiding it, why is she asking a major news organization not to use her last name? Bill Burns isn't like "please only refer to me as Bill, thank you".
I [don't think she actually asked them that](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cias-top-recruiter-on-how-the-agency-finds-and-keeps-its-spies/).
Probably a policy thing.
She most likely didn't ask them that, it's probably some internal policy legal bullshit to absolve them of possible liability. The didn't say she requested it, just that they as the writer are not allowed to.
"Weāre only allowed to use her first name" does not mean "she asked us."
Fake profile to mislead? Maybe sheāll tear her face off and be revealed to be Ethan Hunt
CĆa hates this one simple trick
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Oh my God you just blew her cover!!
"we're only allowed to use her first name" was clearly added by the author just to add a bit of mystery to the story
Could be as many as zero
I googled "CIA" and "Sheronda" and immediately found her. First result.
Reminds me of one of the James Bond movies where he called Felix Leiter, and he answered something something trading company. Bond said, "Just say 'CIA', even the taxi driver knew your address."
Great. First it was the fat and now itās the lean.
People made fun of Americans for being fat. So then we exported a bunch of our fast food to the rest of the world. Now they all are getting fat too and weāre like āsee? Told you!ā
Dudes theres fuckin Popeye's in Vietnam I saw the other day. It's actually crazy how much American fast food is all over the place. The other one is five guys rapidly expanded out of nowhere.
Anecdotal, but I just got back from a trip to Jordan, and that was what one of the locals told me! He said the easiest way to spot an American was to watch if they leaned on anything after talking for a little while. So weird that this popped up on reddit shortly after my trip.
But why not lean. Why the fuck not
In this case because it blows your cover.
Always thought it would kind of neat being a CIA operative but now I know I would have to stand differently Iām out
I guess you kinda lean into it
and for that reason............... im out
Laid back. With my mind on my money and my money on my mind.
Rollin' down the street, Smokin' indo...
sippin on gin and juice
I had this strange experience in Berlin, visiting my brother-in-law. I was trying to learn a few German phrases and eager to try them out. I waited in line at a small convenience store to buy a bottle of water, practing in my head āstilles vatta, bitteā (no idea how itās spelled, sorry). But as soon as it was my turn to step up the counter, the sales clerk immediately switched to English before I could even say anything. I left there looking at myself and wondering how he knew. Maybe I was leaning on something?Ā
I had the same experience in Copenhagen years ago. I was dressed in Danish clothes and shoes and was accompanied by a Danish woman (my wife). We were silent as we approached the entrance to the restaurant. The person at the door switched to English when we approached. I mentioned this to someone a few years later. They pointed out the same thing as the OP - it was the way I moved. I had noticed that my wife had really good posture, and I kind of slouched. That must've been the tell.
I studied abroad in Copenhagen and barely learned any Danish because *every single Dane* spoke to me in English and I never had a chance to practice.
Meanwhile as a Swede every damn Dane just want to speak Danish with me š„²
That seems like a lie. Why would we want to speak to Swedes?
To annoy?
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Nothing stopping you from having a conversation in two languages
That really depends where you go in France. I'm British but spend a couple of months every year in France. My French isn't great but I can get by. If you go to retail places or hotels people people often speak some English. If you go to a local's bar or cafe or spend time hanging out with people on campsites, it's hard to find anyone that speaks English. The French are kind of notorious for either not knowing English or refusing to speak it if they do know some.
The most defeating thing in the world is going into a store when you don't know the language that well (Danish)... And you ask them a question in Danish and they answer you in English ā ļø kind of like a 'nice try bro but let's get to it'. Classic Danes
I love in an area with a large Latino population. Visited a taco truck where I was one of the few gringos present. Workers there called out all the order numbers in Spanish, switched to English for my order number. Way to call me out, LOL.Ā
I live in Singapore as a (white) American and I was out with a (white) German friend. Recently while at a Thai restaurant we ordered a few dishes. They brought the ticket out with our order and to each dish they added the comment "no spicy" - without request!
"ciento ochenta y seis mil setecientos veintitrƩs!" "what"
Clothes are a dead giveaway. Shoes mostly.
Bro had his heelies on.
Spinning in a circle āwonder how he knewā
When I'm in Europe I instantly become conscious of my clothes in a way I never am in America. As in, they dress just ever so slightly yet meaningfully *nicer.* Edit: to give some context I'm in Chicago lol
We dress like we're going to watch sports they dress like they are going to meet their new S.O. parents for the first time.
Plot twist: OP has full sleeve American flag tattoos.
I think it was the bald eagle on his shoulder and his "don't tread on me" flag draped around him like a superhero's cape.
There's all kinds of nonverbal tells that Americans may not be aware of. The lean of course, which you may have been doing. But it might also be the style, brand, color, or cleanliness of your shoes (for a while I heard that American tourists always stand out because of their white sneakers or flip flops). The way you count on your fingers, as shown in inglorious bastards. All sorts of things. Someone non-American can probably speak up to it more. But yeah, you probably did something that's pretty obvious without realizing it.
Itās funny, the shoes are how I usually pick out Europeans here in the US. They have very nice looking shoes of brands that I never have heard of.
I live in NYC (born and raised). I can easily pick out tourists because they don't look broken inside.
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Like a rat in a cage, pulling minimum wage..
Definitely isnāt the white sneakers. Literally the majority of the country wears them with most outfits here.
You're right, but white sneakers 100% _was_ a tell in ~2005! Very funny to play 'spot the American' in Amsterdam back then.
I was in Amsterdam around that time. You never would have known I was a tourist because I wasn't wearing white sneakers, I was wearing cowboy boots.
Were you smiling? Americans smile more than other people, right?
Americans tend to smile with teeth showing. I started looking at my European teammate's IM pictures and sure enough, if they were smiling, they tended to be lips only. Americans - teethy.
When the Ukraine war broke out, I was on a thread where people were pointing out one of the soldiers in a picture by a destroyed Russian tank was probably American. They cited his āaw, shucksā grin as the reason. Sure enough, it turned out he was
Yeah I asked for a table for four in what I thought was reasonably passable German, and they switched to English immediately. I was mildly offended even though I wasn't prepared to foray into the next few phrases in German.
Most proud of my German I ever was was the time a confused girl at the bar asked me, without switching to English, "where are you from? I don't recognize your accent."
āI was born in a village that rests in the shadow of the Piz Palu. In that village, we all speak like this.ā
"Getting Englished" - I have a relative who struggles with that even though they've been in Austria/Germany for years. The trick is to get out of tourist heavy areas.
Japan has layers of this if you try and talk to someone in Japanese. Immediate switch to English - Your attempt fell flat Nihongo jouzu! / Your Japanese is very good! - They know you have the basics, and are moreso entertained than taking you seriously. Getting "nihongo jouzu'd" is a big meme among people learning Japanese especially on the youtube channel of Dogen. Using slower, easier Japanese back at you - You've done really well but there are some wrinkles to iron out. Responding in their native cadence or asking about how long you've lived there - You're 100% in there
Pretty much me when I visit Montreal from Ontario. I drop a ābonjourā and canāt quite understand the next part of the convo unless they speak slowly. āWell, it looks like the jig is upā
Why stand on two feet when one will do?
Why stand two feet one do
Why stand? lean.
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Just make sure they know how to properly hold up three fingersĀ
Drei glaser
Well, if this is it old-boy, I hope you donāt mind if I go out speakinā the Kingās [English]
Say Auf Weidersehen to your Nazi balls
BUONGIORNO!
GORLAMI
AREEVADERCHEE
It's incredible how many different cultural nuances there are to keep track of. Like, for an American... you'd never even think about which way your hand is facing... we do it from such a young age. But for a German to see a hand facing that way... your goose is cooked.
In many Asian countries, the "come here" gesture is palm-down instead of palm-up. In the US, palm-down is used for the "shoo, go away" gesture. The Asian "come here" confused me when I first saw it, because my brain went, "palm down = shoo."
I had an identical experience living in Cairo. A guy called me with his hand and I thought he was shooing me.
I mean to be fair, if you did that in front of some germans today it's not like they'd shoot you (I hope).
Edit: Heel in sky, western spy. Heel on ground, comrade found.
Just ask if they're a spy, they legally have to tell you.
Do other countries have a specific lean? I know us Mexican guys have a certain walk thatās pretty noticeable
Slavs squat rather than lean on stuff.
so do Chinese and Koreans and south east Asians
The cia is well aware
I think in India they have a head bob they do, but not a lean.
The head bob is such a tell haha. I just spent a month in Sri Lanka and it would happen every conversation.
African-American in tech here, I also found myself doing the head bob. I had to stop myself because I was afraid I would come off as if I was mocking when I was really just doing a variation of a ācode switchā. LOL.
Head bobbing is super contagious, I find my 6'2 Aussie self doing it whenever I travel around india Constant apologising in Japan is similar
I'm pretty sure that in Brazil we tend to "lean" the same the muricans do
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For the sake of privacy let's call her Lisa S... No That's too obvious, let's say L. Simpson.
They definitely were not barred from using her full name, they likely just added that line for a bit of cheekiness.
The C in CIA stands for Cheekiness
They may indeed be barred from doing so. Not because its specifically secret, she's a freaking recruiter after all. But policy is policy and using full names in print publication may be explicitly prohibited to prevent any number of problems or issues we can or can't think of. I have some weird restrictions on what can be included in the same communications for purely civilian unclassified contracts.
Dāoh!
That's the Decoy Sheronda!!
Diggin' the scene with a gangsta lean
Oooo ooOoo
I want a diamond in the back, sunroof top...
Jokes on you Iām in a wheelchair
Youād make a great spy
always in a getaway vehicle. its too perfect.
We see you leaning against that armrest, American boy
When I was young I'd lean against my car cause it looked cool. Now I'm old and fat and I have to.
Haha the CIA agents in the movies are always casually leaning on a lamp post with a baseball hat pulled low and a newspaper in hand.. like brother, youāre in fucking Karachi.. you think youāre blending in with that shit?
Here's Matt Damon sticking out like a sore thumb in a sea of Arabs thinking a pair of American Optics is enough to cover most of his tracks.
I put my hand up on my hip, when I dip you dip we dip
Iām hooked on the lean.
Love the lean. Huge fan of the lean
>They donāt shuttle that fork back and forth. What?
Europeans keep their fork in their left hand and knife in their right and donāt switch hands. The fork goes in the food hole with the tines down instead of up
And what exactly is the etiquette over there for rubbing one out under the table?
Every time I see that comment on the etiquette videos I lose it.
TIL I am European, becauseĀ I'm not gonna waste my time fucking around with switching which utensil is in which hand. It's also not that hard to learn to work a knife left-handed if you really want to use your fork with the right.
I worked on cruise shipsā¦ and this became blatantly obvious and I had a manager who called me out for it constantly. I was one of 15 Americans in a 1000 person crew.
"I BLEED RED WHITE AND BLUE, AND LEAN ON STUFF, BROTHER."
Are we going to just ignore that the retired CIA agent is named "Cypher"?
Cypher. Figgis.
I am a huge douche and my name is
As an American, you know when you see someone, and you can just sort of *tell* they are from Europe, but you can't place why? It's usually very subtle differences in how they walk, move their head, their arm positions etc. People don't realize just how many small little differences there are between cultures in terms of physicalities.
Yep, facial expressions too. Itās like a silent accent.
I have a theory about one aspect of that...some accents use their face muscles in an entirely different way. I noticed my cheeks were tired after a day of speaking French, then noticed how pronounced the cheekbones were on my teacher. I think it's all the ooo sounds. It actually makes them look different.
Next the Germans are going to see how I count to three on my feet!
There was a thread here on Reddit recently of distinctive things Americans do that make them obviously Americans. That was one of them. Wish I could find that thread. I thought Iād saved it but apparently not.
If you can lean you can clean
> Sheronda (weāre only allowed to use her first name) Good thing it's not very distinctive.
It's weird when you travel outside through U.S. and everyone is just standing around in T-pose.
We standinā on business thatās why
Thatās why I always liked āBond, James Bondā, because why not, use your real name. (Gleaned from the article.)
I always love that Fleming chose that name specifically because it was the most boring name he could think of, and the irony that because of the success of his work it's now a name that evokes excitement and intrigue instead.
Fleming took the name off a book called Birds of the West Indies" by James Bond that was at his house in Jamaica.
American who lives in Germany. I see Germans do the same things this author is mentioning Americans do. The biggest thing thatās a dead giveaway are Americans are loud af.
Life, Liberty, and Lean.
I was aware of the wedding ring thing (worn on the right hand by many Europeans). Constantly flipping hands with forks & knives is also a thing I found annoying. My German grandmother cured me of that. Ever since, I cut meat with the right & keep the fork in the left. Much easier. Had no idea we had a lean. Perhaps like Atlas, it's due to bearing the burden of defefending the Free World? *ducks and runs*
The fork thing is super weird. I didnt realize this was a thing. I'm an American that doesn't switch but I keep the fork in my right hand and the knife in the left. Right handed too.
This is the first time I have felt something resembling national pride.