American Pie is a poor example of how things are carried out in the U.S. trust me, If only our lives were that eventfull......... We may not just get nudity in public access, but ever hear of a cable descrabler? For less than 50 bucks you can get anything cable offers for as long as the machine still runs.....God bless people who come up with such bootlegging inventions.
If they have CostCo in Europe, they probably sell soda still in the nice narrow and tall bottles that waste materials. Think about it, CostCo is all American: buy Twinkies in a 200 pack so you can save money in the long run. I bet in most cramped European flats you would have a difficult time getting a box of 200 Twinkies through your front door, let alone trying to find the space to put them. And Costco tends to not jive with cultures that use bicycles as their principal mode of transportation: "What do you mean? I have to carry this 10 kg package of beef jerky on that?" But then again, a 1000 pack of CDR's or DVDR's might help weigh down your SmartCars so they can get friction on the road.
OK, instead of wathcing scrambled porn, and then uncsrambling it, you can just go have sex for treal because that isbetter. i just have doem whiskye and sprite and i am going to class in 8 hours. this is gonna rule widkced hard.
Whisky and sprite? You are truely an interesting person. I know of whiskey coke, captains coke, or strait up whiskey, but whiskey and sprite? Only good drink I can think of with sprite would be a vodka sprite cranberry. If you gatta go to class and you want it to "rule wicked hard" or whatever, maybe some good old fasioned marry jain would be better, seeing as how alchohol usually makes people tired.
@squirl We do have cars too... they only drive faster, have better brakes and suspension, do at least twice the mileage to the gallon and pollute the air less. Smart? Just a toy Here in Poland (and in Germany too) we also have so called Macro Cash & Carry stores (sorry for the ad) where you can buy beer (provided that you buy a whole case-> which is a fair deal since i don't have to buy beer for a week having 2-3 spare cases), cigarettes (10 boxes minimum) Mars choclate bars (100pcs. at least) or toothpaste (geez- ony in 5x100ml packs)... and over 10.000 of other goods. Surprised or not, the living space for each member of my family (including my dog) exceeds 500sq feet per person + some storage space in cellar and in the attic + 2 garages... and the house is built of solid materials (brick+gas-cement blocks) and not a plywood imitation of a building, where internal walls are so thin you can punch through them Europe builds buildings which last, in the U.S. buildings are built to look nice but to be cheap (hence made of crap and not of things we consider to be proper building materials). And we don't have to travel around the world to see a Roman Church, a gothic Cathedral or a Reneisannce Palace... we usually have some specimens of each around the corner Moreover if we're sick- we're insured even if we happen to be jobless or less-earning. If we get booted from the job- we recieve social aid. Our Universities are free of charge and our public schools are on high level. The criminality levels are much lower (armed robberies make it to the news of the day and not the last page of local newspaper). Most of the young people do speak in at least 1 foreign language (good public schools again!) and can show on map where Paris, Buenos Aires or Bejing are located (as opposed to U.S. youth). We have fruits and vegetables that taste like fruits and vegetables and not like water. We can decide wheather or not to buy GM modified food (it has to be specially marked). We have something, most Americans forgot about, multi-generation families, where grandchildren know their granparents not only from yearly meetings or old photographs. Geez, being european rulez! BTW- almost forgot- we have free erotic shows in public TV. We also don't have ugly girls over 50% of whom do have overweight problem- come visit Poland or Czech Republic - I guarantee You, the most beautifull girls live here
On the other end of the scale, look at China. There is no governmental crutch to support people, and many people (contrary to popular belief) thrive. The Chinese Government has little input in its citizens' lives, aside from defense and the "one child" rule. People from Australia, the Pacific and even the US move to China to start businesses and new lives because China is the most open Free Enterprise system in the world. When you learn to fend for yourself, without a crutch, you are better off when there is no crutch to support you. There is little bureaucracy in China, but things still work. For example, if a restaurant has a case of food poisoning it is publicized by media and word of mouth, and the public avoids the place so it goes out of business-case solved. If a company pollutes a river, some people are bound to care and organize some kind of protest or boycott of that company. There are two kinds of equality: when the government gives everybody the same by providing nothing, and when the government gives everybody the same by providing for its citizens. Both have examples to show that they both can work. In the former, good examples are the USA and many European countries, but there are some cases where it does not work: confusing bureaucracy "bureaucrazy" that undermines itself. In the case of the latter example of equality, a good example is China itself, but a bad example are corrupt theocracies and the Soviet Union, where cases of corruption sometimes destroyed the effectiveness of those systems.
@squirl "One child rule"... c'mon- reminds me a bit more two other regimes... the U.S. and the North Korean China is run collectivly by CPCh. Boycott or protest in China... LMAO! And a U.S. citizen speaking about idustrial pollution... read which countries signed the U.N. Kyoto Protocole- found U.S. there? Oops, I guess it didn't signed it yet. DO you know the definition of theocracy? Can you name one? And BTW- what's a democracy? A country in which votes are counted by machines programmed by suporters of one candidate and the manual re-counting is stopped by Supreme Court (most of which was appointed by the father of one of candidates)? Guess what country am I talking about
You are talking of regimes, not way of life. The way of life in China is that you support yourself and work hard enough to make a living. There are no wellfare or unemployment benefits and the people plan accordingly and tend to have a lot of discipline. As far as theocracies... former Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, etc. Many theocracies are actually monarchies or dictatorships that are comprised of one powerful person who rules based upon theocratic belief. The U.N. is a joke anyway. It is not an authority by any means. You are probably thinking, "You've got that right! The USA..." but the U.N. is the same organization observed France not signing critical Nuclear Distribution agreements. Israeli F-16's reduced a French nuclear reactor in Iraq to rebar and concrete rubble. France sells military aircraft and anti-shipping missiles to unstable countries including former Iraq. An Argentinian-purchased French Exocet missile sunk a British destroyer in the Falkland Islands conflict. Iraq also had similar weapons prior to the first Persian Gulf War. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, many governments were concerned about the nuclear scientists and materials that were "unaccounted for." So the U.N. is not as powerful as many assume.
Sjesus, you're clueless and you don't even realise it... Have you even ever been to Europe? You come in here saying we live in dumps etc, have you even ever seen how life in Europe is? Well, about your waste of materials stuff, now you're running off, it's the US that's violating Kyoto, the EU tries to more or less live by it, in the mean while, it are our cars who are more fuel efficient, and it's us who is the current economical power, you guys might still be the military power, but your economy is failing. God I'm getting sick of people like you, arrogant till the last bone in their body, and clueless as hell. <Z>
loooool frog , it s true, one friend went to study there and told me many youngs thought europe was only england.....and of course...spain is where mexico.....lool
Ok, as far as buildings, my dad has been in construction for about 38 years, now, thats older than alot of people here, so dont act like you know more. And seeing as how we live near white water rivers "not 1mile wide slow flowing channels" and have been flooded over 3 times at this one house alone, I think it is a testimate to the strength of the foundation and building, all times, all you must do is cut the sheet rock to where the flood water was highest, remeove it, put in new insulation, and new sheetrock, then repaint. American homes are built to be easy to make and easy to repair, plus, dont rag on our homes as alot of foreighners make up the construction force, and without it some of your family members may starve to death. Otherwise, I havnt heard any american afraid or outgoing about commies in about...hmm, the veitnam war? Also, for whoever made that map, they are very confused as cuba is not in the gulf of mexico but infact south of florida... And to what effect should we have to understand or want to help a culture that worships a cow, an animal much stupider than the worshipers, but then they cry of starvation and no food, damn a burger join and steak house would be happy. No country is perfect, but its interesting to see how that you understand that media depicts how americans see things, yet you all seem to think that you see through clear eyes......its actually amazingly funny. But as long as you feel like you know better
not allsop , it is all the opposite, for me it s funny too see like you (not you allsop) fell better then rest of world
WTF are you talking about? Nobody ever said anything about American houses... And btw, your dad is not the only one who's in the construction sector for years, besides, it's not because he's schooled in that field that you are too, it just doesn't work that way. So Allsop, tell me then, what sea/gulf is south of Florida? oh yes, it's the Gulf of Mexico? Well Allsop, your remark about not having to understand or help other cultures only shows you're still a kid, and luckily American foreign policy isn't made up by kids(, rather by monkeys). Well, what I think is funny is how you claim it's the media that shows us how you see things, but in fact it are people like you or squirl who do that, and hell, you two guys are way more impressive than the press. I've always hoped/guessed Bush was an exception, that he might still have some voters, but that the lion share of the Americans starts to see through the lies and the bad excuses, now that I've heard you and squirl talk about politics I don't have that hope anylonger. You tell us we make up our minds through media, funny, as what squirl said is almost exactly what you can see in some ass-backwards retarded highschool movie about some kids going to Europe. Clichй's are for fun, don't actually start believing 'm <Z>
i just saw the map. now thats fucking aragont. just because im american i hate the rest of the world? NOt everyones brought up to hate anyones who difrent. Thats somthing thats world wide by the way.look around the world you find one group trying to kill another group because of stupid difrences. acculy the more i read this forums latly the more bitterness i see directed towrds americans. witch really sucks because i was injoying the open and diverse forum. And seeing point of views from peoples of difrent cultures. but maby i should leave forum? im a hated american no? aogant westrener who thinks rest of world lives im adoby mud huts and dreams of one day living in america..... fucking BS grow up and stop being so damn argagant in your views of our aragance. does that even make sence?!? ..lol Theres not a race of people or contry i hate just because im supode to. It would be cool to have a fried whos russian. wait i do ihs, or brazilin, wait again storm and hemant, german frog and cat, aussie, harp helzra, canadian, turbo, lmao seems the person i clashed with most is allsop, humm american, ????? i must of been rasied wrong. were my aragont the rest of the worlds benigth me attitued the rest of the world expects me to have?......
well gryphon, many people here are trying to make up if the majority of Americans thinks more like you do, or more like squirl does. In the latter case, I think you can understand the bitterness, if it's the former, then the bitterness is misplaced. We don't hate Americans, we're just getting tired of the usual patronising, and "if we weren't there on D-day", sure they're right, but I'm startled time and time again at how self-pleased they are. They can be, as long as they don't actually start to feel better than other countries. Or as long as they're not prejudiced. <Z>
Fuck you Zembla. Fuck you Sebbo. Fuck you Broz. In fact, fuck everyone from here that isn't 100% PURE BLOODED AMERICAN! IF MY GRANNNNNPAWWW WASN"T THERE ON THAT GODDAMN JUNE 6TH 1944 YOU SCRAWWWNY FUCKBAGS WOULDN'T BE ON HERE COMPLAININ', NOW WOULD'JA?? fuck me that post was dumb.
Yo gryphon, use a fucking spell check bro. I want to read your post but i simply can't bring myself to do it because it's the worst looking english I've ever seen.
