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Fellow Americans, do you realize how much people envy us?

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HarryHengst said:
There is no way i can envy America while it still uses that retarded imperial system.
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Dunlop

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HarryHengst said:
There is no way i can envy America while it still uses that retarded imperial system.
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I did a stint in aircraft mechanics a lifetime ago and had to learn the imperial system after growing up with the Metric system due to the US ruling the aviation world

Holy mother of gawd was that horrible
 
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Mr Cola

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i love american culture, only thing i can comment about personal experience is that you guys dont have a volume control and you keep saying "across the pond" when referring to anything English. Other than that i would live in America 100% if you guys had a better healthcare system and I wasnt near anywhere religious.
 
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Dunlop said:
I did a stint in aircraft mechanics a lifetime ago and had to learn the imperial system after growing up with the Metric system due to the US ruling the aviation world

Holy mother of gawd was that horrible
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I'm sure if you're in aircraft mechanics you can get something as simple as a measurement system down.


Mr Cola said:
i love american culture, only thing i can comment about personal experience is that you guys dont have a volume control and you keep saying "across the pond" when referring to anything English. Other than that i would live in America 100% if you guys had a better healthcare system and I wasnt near anywhere religious.
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What do you mean by volume control? We're loud?


MWS Natural said:
3 of those girls look like carbon copies of themselves. Thank God for American diversity. My dick would get bored too easily anywhere else.
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I just noticed it, but those three guys in the back. LOL
 
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Dunlop

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Alucrid said:
I'm sure if you're in aircraft mechanics you can get something as simple as a measurement system down.
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I'm not anymore and of course I learned it, but after such a uniform system as metric I could not wrap my head around why a country would not adopt it like the rest of the world when the existing system is so fucking awful.
 
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Mr Cola

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Alucrid said:
I'm sure if you're in aircraft mechanics you can get something as simple as a measurement system down.




What do you mean by volume control? We're loud?




I just noticed it, but those three guys in the back. LOL
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Its something i dont believe you are but something I have experienced when i am introduced or in contact with Americans. I am English, we are not very loud, more reserved, the Americans I lived with at University or Socialised with were extremely loud, loud laugh, loud conversations and loud opinions. Its a change of pace, sometimes annoying. I dont believe you are all like that, im just stating what my encounters have been like.
 
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Mr Cola said:
i love american culture, only thing i can comment about personal experience is that you guys dont have a volume control and you keep saying "across the pond" when referring to anything English. Other than that i would live in America 100% if you guys had a better healthcare system and I wasnt near anywhere religious.
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Yup, noticed this as wel, you Americans are definitly a loud bunch.
 
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Mr Cola said:
i love american culture, only thing i can comment about personal experience is that you guys dont have a volume control and you keep saying "across the pond" when referring to anything English. Other than that i would live in America 100% if you guys had a better healthcare system and I wasnt near anywhere religious.
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I'm pretty sure I've heard the phrase "across the pond" from a British person refering to the US as well. I think the phrase goes both ways.
 
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Diprosalic

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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.
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high five!
but toblerone dude? we're better than that.
 
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Mr Cola

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ascii42 said:
I'm pretty sure I've heard the phrase "across the pond" from a British person refering to the US as well. I think the phrase goes both ways.
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26 years in England never heard it outside of US tv shows and Americans. I think its meant to be endearing and affable but it really really irks me hearing it. Its an Ocean, not a pond, AN OCEAN.
 
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Dunlop said:
I'm not anymore and of course I learned it, but after such a uniform system as metric I could not wrap my head around why a country would not adopt it like the rest of the world when the existing system is so fucking awful.
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Or be glad America Invented airplanes to begin with, or else you wouldn't have a job.

I kid, its all cool bro. Come over to my house for a forth O' July BBQ, you can park your airplane next to my Hummer H1 and Rascal scooter.


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Mr Cola said:
26 years in England never heard it outside of US tv shows and Americans. I think its meant to be endearing and affable but it really really irks me hearing it. Its an Ocean, not a pond, AN OCEAN.
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People say it to be ironic, and as a joke because we think it sounds really British
 
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Kai Dracon

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Life is too complex to simply say one nation/country/system wins and the others all lose. Or one is "the best" and that's it.

Even America's deficient aspects like lack of progressive health care, wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for how the rest of American society and economics had been dismantled over the last 30 years. Every situation is relative.

There is a lot that someone in America can appreciate or desire that many other countries have. There is a lot that people in other countries can appreciate or desire about America. But from both perspectives, there are undesirable aspects as well.

Thanks in part to modern communications, media, and the Internet, the world is gradually shifting towards a true, unified global culture - whether people realize it or not. The ancient nations and conventions are far behind this, it's true. But all revolutions start with people, not with things like governments or map boundaries marked on paper. Once enough ordinary people start thinking of themselves merely as human beings, rather than a nationality or a tribe, dramatic changes in global organization will happen. (Changes thought impossible by previous generations who were completely unable to see past their own reality tunnel and tribal identities.)
 
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Famassu

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Considering pretty much everything in US is worse than where I live, I don't see much to envy about. The only thing I'm a bit envious is your movie & tv industry, shitty blockbusters excluded, it's just on another level in comparison to ours.
 
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frequency

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EDIT: Nevermind. This was some positive post about the USA from a non-American, but I realized that some people are being quoted in the OP. I doubt my opinion is worth quoting, but removing my post just in case... I don't like being put up front like that.
 
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I am a real American, Fight for the rights of every man. I am a real American, Fight for what's right - fight for your life!

When it comes crashin' down and it hurts inside, You've gotta take a stand- it don't help to hide. When you hurt my friends then you hurt my pride. I gotta be a man - I can't let it slide.

I am a real American, Fight for the rights of every man. I am a real American, Fight for what's right - fight for your life!

Well I feel strong about right and wrong And I don't take trouble for very long. I've got something deep inside of me, And courage is the thing that keeps us free!

I am a real American, Fight for the rights of every man. I am a real American, Fight for what's right - fight for your life!

I am a real American, Fight for the rights of every man. I am a real American, Fight for what's right - fight for your life!

I am a real American, Fight for the rights of every man. I am a real American, Fight for what's right - fight for your life!

i cry everytime
 
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robertsan21

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I am from sweden and that country fucking rules.

however If there is one country that I would want to move to, it would be New zealand. best fucking fly fishing in the world!
 
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