Wind's Howling
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I love England and their beautiful pronounced words.
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Fellow Americans, do you realize how much people envy us?
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I love England and their beautiful pronounced words.
I enjoy the Southern accent, especially if it's matched with the words 'I do declare'.
Hillbilly and East Coast accents don't do anything for me. The Bostonian accent sounds like an American trying to do a posh English accent and getting it completely wrong. The Fargo accent, I'm not even sure if there is such a thing, is just a weird twang.
New Jersey is basically the US equivalent of Essex, UK. Nothing attractive about that accent, same with Noo Yawk.
Californian/West Coast accent is pretty cool.
I personally don't find them particularly attractive, but there are much worse accents out there. Like my own.
Brooklyn Italian-American does it for me.
And CERN the World Wide Web.
Your move.
When a woman has that southern accent... aaww yeah.
Oh a cute girl with a southern twang *swoons*
I mean, I have healthcare anyway because my university offers it, my parents work, and I'm going to have a job that offers me healthcare too. So.....the whole public healthcare flare-up in the U.S. hasn't done much for me besides annoyingly, and usually for the worse, change what my insurance company likes to charge and cover in the past few years.
HarryHengst
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The question is not 'how could i affort rent' but 'why the fuck are housing prices this high?'.
I have noticed it, but politicians do nothing but try to socially appear like they live up to the ideal American 50s Telivision family because they are supposibly role models. The thing is people act like they are above human. We often do the same with celebrities and sports stars. Tiger Woods bwent from the most loved sports star to one of the least respected because foolish people think he should be a role model. The thing is he and even politicians, even the gay ones cannot defy their humanity.
Not since the 80s.
Everything else lol.
When you figure out the solution to that specific problem, feel free to also pass it on to The Hague before you pass it on to Washington DC.
ThoseDeafMutes
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Varies from person to person and accent to accent. Anecdotally I would say no, on average. People around here are far more likely to find a variety of European accents attractive (e.g. British, French). The cultural saturation of American media makes the various accents seem very mundane (i.e. it doesn't have the novelty that an Australian accent does to an American).
I have nothing against USA.
Like the rest of the world, it has its pros and cons,don't have ever envy USA, and don't even think of it.I like some things of USA, like i like others from other places.
Personally, I feel like i'm winning the life lottery for born and live where i live,
Quality education not too expensive, free health care and daily living among beautiful scenery, art, cities.
Not to mention the lifestyle, food, wine, and the short distances, in 1 hour drive you can find like 3-4 cities, hundreds of small towns, sea, mountains, hills,enjoy an ancient culture and traditions with all the modern comforts like multiplex cinemas, shopping malls and food from all around the world.
Regarding the music I usually listen to more underground stuff, especially from Italy, uk and northern europe, I do not really like the stuff coming from MTV or your pop stars,but you have great musi too,like almost everywhere, for me it's ok, you are good at marketing and selling the products, like mc donalds, which is not stuff that I love, but it's everywhere. I like some of your movies and sit coms, luckily i can see it from here too).
I would like to visit United States as a tourist, like... all the rest of the world.,',and i'm sure i love it, cause usa is very different from where i live!
The only thing that sucks is that english is international language and i can't speak it properly cause i'm too lazy for learn it and speak another language in everyday's life.
Like the rest of the world, it has its pros and cons,don't have ever envy USA, and don't even think of it.I like some things of USA, like i like others from other places.
Personally, I feel like i'm winning the life lottery for born and live where i live,
Quality education not too expensive, free health care and daily living among beautiful scenery, art, cities.
Not to mention the lifestyle, food, wine, and the short distances, in 1 hour drive you can find like 3-4 cities, hundreds of small towns, sea, mountains, hills,enjoy an ancient culture and traditions with all the modern comforts like multiplex cinemas, shopping malls and food from all around the world.
Regarding the music I usually listen to more underground stuff, especially from Italy, uk and northern europe, I do not really like the stuff coming from MTV or your pop stars,but you have great musi too,like almost everywhere, for me it's ok, you are good at marketing and selling the products, like mc donalds, which is not stuff that I love, but it's everywhere. I like some of your movies and sit coms, luckily i can see it from here too).
I would like to visit United States as a tourist, like... all the rest of the world.,',and i'm sure i love it, cause usa is very different from where i live!
The only thing that sucks is that english is international language and i can't speak it properly cause i'm too lazy for learn it and speak another language in everyday's life.
Wind's Howling
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It is a collaboration of dozens of people working on it from vastly different cultures.
Well, having flaws doesn't disqualify you. I don't know of a country without flaws.
InaudibleWhispa
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I like a lot of American things and a lot of American people, but I'm not sure how my life would in any way be upgraded by living there. Perhaps the weather would be nicer (depending on the city). I guess the landscape is a lot more varied, but I've seen a lot of similar stuff travelling around Europe. And I love American TV and Movies but, well, I can watch them anywhere. There are many places in America I'd love to visit though.
i started off with 4 weeks at my job in the US...straight from college.
So it's not all gloom and doom. It just depends on your company.
EXACTLY. "The thing is he and even politicians, even the gay ones cannot defy their humanity."
Why isn't a healthy sex life part of being a good role model? Sex is a part of human life-every single person here was produced by someone sticking their genitals into someone else. Why are we pretending this isn't the case? We may as well pretend everyone doesn't eat, poop, sleep or breath.
Just replace "sex" with something else that all humans do. "Obama scandal: Obama caught eating on camera, impeachment already done, Romney literally orgasms on CNN live."
So ask yourself this: why can't a role model be someone who has a lot of sex?
But, then, they ARE: see every movie star hero ever. And that's a fantasy, escapism we want but can't have. It's "safe" sex because the hero's sex lives don't require the energy and responsibility real life does. A real life, healthy sex life takes maturity and effort, and you know as well as I do that's not a popular mentality.
See? We WANT that sexuality in our lives, but our culture is too sexually immature and scared to admit and embrace it and educate on how to not screw it up.
Everyone nowadays knows how to use a condom, but did you know how HARD religious and conservative groups tried to prevent putting condom machines in schools in the US in the '80s and '90s (and even in some places today)?
Condoms SAVE LIVES yet they still screamed in opposition against them because of their immature, petty views on sex.
It is HUMAN to want sex. It is NATURAL. Nothing good ever comes of suppressing something instinctual without an outlet.
No wonder we're all gun and war obsessed. All that pent up sexual frustration has to go somewhere.
Wind's Howling
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Not caring for your people is one of the biggest flaws the US has.
Oppo
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holy jumping fuck, are you in for a bad surprise in a few years.
you must be reither really young, or ultra naive.
Arjen
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A German invented the "Haber process" that is responsible for sustaining one third of earth's population.
Come on, light-bulb Edison can't compete with that.
The Technomancer
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As others have said, if someone from a non-third world country envies us its because our media has built up a narrative that hides all of the deep problems in our society.
A German invented the "Haber process" that is responsible for sustaining one third of earth's population.
Come on, light-bulb Edison can't compete with that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug
Nothing to sneeze at.
I almost feel embarrassed not to venture out in my star-spangled pants and jacket.
it's because our ppl is diverse. are yours? whites aren't the majority here anymore
Wind's Howling
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We do it every year on April 30th with the color orange.
Oh, and every two years in June and July.
Glass Rebel
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Look, we have CERN, the best chocolate (Toblerone), the best cheese (Gruyère), low unemployment rates, national healthcare, beautiful women from all over the world and are rich as fuck to boot. Scandinavian countries and Canada can apply, everyone else better just shut the fuck up.
Me too, I also have at least 4 American flags on me at any given time: tie, pin, socks, underpants.
Lagspike_exe
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Since when is food quality measured by fast food chains? I'd rather die than eat non-organic food my whole life.
Is that a flagpole in your underpants or are you just happy to see me?
What's that? Stones?
I don't know I was envying europe pretty hard during the Diablo 3 launch.
But in all seriousness the U.S. is pretty grand to live in, an there will always be issues no matter where you live. Just sometimes you have to deal with different problems, one being private healthcare over here.
But in all seriousness the U.S. is pretty grand to live in, an there will always be issues no matter where you live. Just sometimes you have to deal with different problems, one being private healthcare over here.
And you get Prometheus first. However, your geography is balls unless you love mountains, it's tough having neighbours who all spend a different currency, and your three languages is a bit over the top for the size of your country.
Wind's Howling
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I could not help but laugh.
BertramCooper
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Interesting point; I had never thought of it that way.
One of the reasons I ask is because I'll be visiting the UK for a couple of weeks at the end of the year, and I'm curious to know how British women will respond to me. (Ha.)
If you only would stop making money by dealing with criminals, warlords and dictators.
When I get all patriotic with a girl and she's all ready to salute the flag and she sees my star spangled briefs, if she doesn't immediately recite the pledge of allegiance I kick her out of bed.
No commie chicks, thanks!
Fuck, and the second best was Canadian. But if not for the Americans, the show wouldn't be possible. My mind is melting.
Spoken like a true American.
Glass Rebel
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- Only the south is mountainy
- It's not tough for me personally when our currency is comparatively strong
- it's 4 languages actually and usually it's not that big of a problem
Needless to say I'm glad my parents brought me to Switzerland when I was young
Gustav said:
You just mad because you weren't as smart to take advantage of them.
shanshan310
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This and fancy southern accents. mmm.
Which fits Gene Roddenberry's vision of a united Earth as a socialist paradise where everyone happily gets along.
Star Trek works on so many levels.
Mark my words, the singularity will begin in silicon valley and the US will absorb the world.
Lagspike_exe
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Nope, that's that tomato the size of an average watermelon people in the USA like to eat.
I guess what we can agree on is that there are tons of people that have done more awesome stuff than both of us.
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