The "What do you look like? Thread"

[Pokemon Trainer Sarah]

Right. People on websites. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thnk the fact that, I dunno, I live in Australia, with the other 23 million Australians makes me slightly more educated in the slang we use and what it refers to than yourself. So no, here, yank has nothing to do with which state you live in. It just refers to anything American. Case closed. Not sure how other countries interpret it, but the way it is used here, and the way I use it are like that.

And Xanthe, that depends on the person. I can honestly say I know no Europeans who would take offence to that if used in a banterish manner, just like I wouldn't take offence to being called a yobo or a bogan. They were it like a badge of pride. And I have turned down two crap jobs in jobseekers

Yeah I agree with Jacob, "yank" is a common term for "American" over here. It's not an insult or anything. Also being half a wog, I call people wogs all the time haha. It used to be derogatory but then the Europeans kind of claimed it and it's not derogatory anymore. Obviously Xanthe is too sophisticated for us. xD