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[Nyanko]

Came in expecting something uplifting, left bemused.

 

[Extra Sauce]

I love America, it's just unfortunate that there are Americans living in it.

 

[dark10x]

Rookie mistake, never buy a car in France if you can, that's the part of the EU zone that car companies usually overcharge.
Never go to the pictures if you don't have a subs for an unlimited access to the cinema or got some kind of reduction.
Also never, ever trust Air France or the train companies as far as punctuality goes.
And unless you lived literally everywhere in France I wouldn't comment on the housing cost considering there's a huge disparity between places (you don't want to live in St Etienne but they're close giving house for free ;p).

Well, I had to buy my car in France in order to take advantage of a company zero percent interest loan (paid half in cash, though). We bought our other car in Germany. Prices are a bit lower there (the same car I bought in France is typically two to four thousand Euro less in Germany) but still MUCH higher than in the US. Seriously, US car prices are obscenely low.

Don't get me wrong, I'm loving France for a lot of things, but it's given me a different perspective on things in the US.

 

[kick51]

Came in expecting something uplifting, left bemused.

here's the uplifting one:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=772118

 

[Oersted]

Best top end healthcare in the world if you can pay for it. Which you can if you have a legitimate career. The disparity in quality of healthcare top to bottom does no reflect the quality of care one can receive at the top.


The hell is wrong with showing that you got mad swag and dropping a Benjamin on the waitress at a nice place after an excellent meal?


Absurdly good wages for all people in the upper end of the economic strata, actually.


1. Only if you value being able to churn out formulaic answers over real critical thinking and 2. not true at all if you have the cash to pay for quality K-12 education. From a post-secondary standpoint the breadth and quality of the U.S. education system is an unprecedented global achievement.

Hey inequality.

 

[Magni]

American here:

Dont give up on my country because we're performing poorly in the olympics.

we're doing pretty well in the hockey tournaments (the only sport that matters in the WO )

We have a lot of other things seriously locked down.

We got the best rap music. We got the best rock, too. If you exclude that beepy boop shit we pretty much own all of music.

ehhh, I'd say the Brits are pretty good considering the population difference.

Our fast food is undeniably good. McDonalds? Every country. Every god damned country. I been overseas, trust me, I feel the envy. Yall got triple level McDonalds funplexes. Dont act like you dont like it.

American McD's is one of the worst McD's I've tasted, and I've tried it in a shitton of other countries. We have the best fast food, sure. That's no big thing to be proud about.

Legal Marijuana. We're working on it. Two of our states have legalized it for recreational use. What has your country done? Jack shit.

Uruguay?

All of the sexiest people.

Yeah no

Our microbrews are some of the sickest drunkest snobbiest beers around. Belgium, look out. Germany, France, look out. We out here.

We have good microbrews. But talking about France when talking about good beer shows you have no beer culture.

that's all i'm saying i guess.

And for the record, I love America.

 

[freenudemacusers]

Magni that doesn't sound like an American style post at all.

I mean, our beer is better than anywhere else in the free world.

Our athletes are better (Kobe, Armstrong, Jordan, phelps, etc)

Our music is more desired (Madonna, Michael Jackson, Chris Brown, our pop in general, nickelback, etc)

Our food is more popular (mcdonalds, bk, papa johns)

Our money is more important

Our politicians are more important

Our movies are the only ones that matter

Our software is the standard

If the world ended tomorrow every other country would be a footnote or shoved in the appendix, the part of a book Americans don't even have to read.

 

[Jimothy]

Globalization has made it so you can get all the benefits of what makes America great (ie culture and technology) without having to put up with all the regressive bullshit that comes along with living here. Joke's on us, fellow muricans.

 

[dark10x]

Globalization has made it so you can get all the benefits of what makes America great (ie culture and technology) without having to put up with all the regressive bullshit that comes along with living here. Joke's on us, fellow muricans.

What regressive bullshit do you actually encounter on a day to day basis?

 

[A More Normal Bird]

1. The post I quoted specifically ended with the word "diversity". So yeah, I"m pretty sure it mentioned diversity.

2. If you achieve alpine climates via altitude you aren't actually an alpine climate. It creates an entirely different ecological regime.

3. The United States doesn't share nearly as many climate ranges and species with other countries as you would expect. The entirety of Europe lacks similar ecological breadth for example. But again, this is largely due to an optimal positioning of the United States, and a purely coincidental one (other than the ravenous pursuit of more land that led to the U.S. acquiring Texas, Alaska, Hawaii, etc. after establishing itself as a nation mind you).

That's basically the U.S. answer to most nation to nation comparisons though. It's the equivalent to getting 50 lottery tickets when everyone else only has 10 then bragging about how well you made out from a total sum standpoint.

1. Yep poor wording on my part, it was late. Follow the chain back to the start though. Incredibleness is not objective.

2. This depends on what classification system you use. The Köppen scheme categorises a number of high altitude areas as sub-arctic or alpine even though they are way off latitudinally. This doesn't mean they are the same as the other regions, but the terms are broad descriptors.

3. I'm well aware of the diversity and uniqueness of the American environment; my post was mainly referring to Canada and Mexico. It's still not quite the same thing as what millenia of isolation have produced with Australia's biology, in the same way that Australia containing both desert and alpine climates isn't quite the same as the USA containing them.

Also, I'm curious as to what you meant when you said conservation efforts in Australia are "largely mitigated by a lack of population density,". When you exclude the interior Australia's population density isn't all that low.

 

[Kozak]

The puzzled reaction to the photo of British nightlife is lolworthy.

Do you guys not go out on a Friday/Saturday night? I'm willing to bet a Friday/Saturday night in any country looks exactly the same.

 

[kick51]

The puzzled reaction to the photo of British nightlife is lolworthy.

Do you guys not go out on a Friday/Saturday night? I'm willing to bet a Friday/Saturday night in any country looks exactly the same.

it's a thread about taking a small sample of possibly misleading information and extrapolating it to everything

 

[Snuggles]

RE: films, it is pretty telling that the Oscars had to create a separate catagory just for non-American movies. I guess it wouldn't be fair to pit them against real movies.

 

[GhostWriter24]

What the fuck are you talking about? Don't speak on my behalf, peasant.