A bunch of collective nouns

My favorite is a complaint of Karens.

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They are called "Americans" in Europe

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- An Americans of Karens?
  
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We have fun collective names. A group of white men is called a podcast, for example.

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I'm partial to "fuckton."

A fuckton of geese. A fuckton of sheep. A fuckton of ice cream.

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The only time Americans will use metric /s

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- A fuckton is 2000 fucking pounds. A fucktonne (note the spelling.. metric) is 1000 fucking kilograms.
  
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- Nah, that’s a « fuck-tonne »
  
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- English fuckton, not metric
  
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- Nah, Americans use metric for selling drugs at the very least.
  
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- Fun fact, in America, a ton is 2000 pounds, which is slightly less than a metric ton. In America if you order a ton of bricks, you'd get less bricks than you would if you ordered it in France.
  
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- Two thousand pounds is not metric, and a fuck ton is more than a standard ton.
  
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It's even easier than that with most people I know

They just describe multiples of individual animals, objects, places or things collectively as just ..... stuff

Flock of geese? .... stuff

A stack of books? ... stuff

group of cars? .... stuff

A planet? .... stuff

A solar system? ... stuff

A galaxy? ... stuff

A galactic neighbourhood? ... stuff

The universe? .... stuff

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The universe? … stuff

I think George Carlin would say that the universe is a place for your stuff.

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- No, it's my stuff, your shit. Whenever it's mine, it's stuff. Whenever it's yours, it's shit. ie. "Get your shit off the counter so I can put my stuff down."
  
  Source: ol Gorgie Boy
  
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- Where else would I put my stuff?
  
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- I never disagree with ol' Georgie
  
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Sounds like German

plane - flying stuff

Lighter - fire stuff

Vehicle - driving stuff

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- lol ... I'm Indigenous Canadian and I speak my language Ojibway/Cree
  
  This made me realize that the modern things we named with our old language sounds like what you describe
  
  Aircraft -> kah-mee-nah-mee-kook .... 'the thing that flies'
  
  Helicopter -> kah-kee-noo-kah-wah-nas-kee-pee-nik ... 'the thing that turns fast'
  
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When the stuff hits your stuff like a very stuff stuff, that's stuff.

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- Yeah I know ... like stuff ... I dunno ... shrugs shoulders and walks away
  
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Do those people count "one, two, many, lots"?

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I once knew a person that ended almost every sentence they could with, “and stuff”. I don’t think I’ve ever used the phrase since.

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- Thus "phenomenology" means αποφαινεσθαι τα φαινομενα – to let that which shows itself be seen from itself in the very way in which it shows itself from itself. And stuff”
  
  ― Martin Heidegger
  
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A few crows standing around at a house party, with a caption below saying "this is barely a manslaughter"

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A "fuck that" of humans

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Fun fact: The English collective noun for multiple Americans is a "volume".

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Buncha time.

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Bunch of coconuts. A lovely one at that.

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The Chinese language has different articles depending on what noun it is for. So 一杯可乐 versus 一双筷子.

In German there are three genders of articles that are basically randomly assigned to each noun.

Sometimes these make sense, but not always, and with languages you have to learn arbitrary information.

It feels like the original post is disparaging American English for not using arbitrary nouns for collections of things. As with most differences between American and British English, the American version is simpler and loses very little. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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English (traditional) versus English (simplified)

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- So succinct, yet so appropriate 👌
  
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Wicked cools

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