Fellow Americans, do you realize how much people envy us?
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Blame Republicans, democrats are trying. *Crosses fingers* We better join the modern world.
GhostWriter24
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In N Out is the food of kings, though.
LOL at the thought of England being #1... This is the 21st century, no one even cares about England enough to accuse them of creating AIDS or crack, or faking terrorist attacks.
Get a job, hippie
Tornado Condor
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As someone who used to live in Mexico and now lives in the US, i agree. America rocks!
Why must you sting my heart with your truths?!
Isn't that largely due to your leaders rather than your people though?
I dunno, you seem like a good bunch to me. A little too hard working and not concerned enough about your poorer citizens, but a good bunch nonetheless.
corporate cheerleader
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Would be easy if it weren't for a certain continent.
I like being able to enjoy American entertainment from my couch without having anything to do with it
entertain me America!
Clayton Bigsby
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America is like that really pretty chubby girl with a slightly messed up smile. Once she fixes her teeth(public healthcare) and loses some weight(obesity rates), she could be a 9 or a 10.
shadyspace
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Oh, Europe.
As someone who has also lived in Mexico, I agree with you, but then, it's Mexico. The country has seen better days.
Arjen
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This i can get behind.
There are a lot of amazing things in the US.
I don't talk only about landscapes, urban architecture or beautiful housing. Most movies I watched as kids were American ones and they all tend to show that all great stuff happens in the US (alien invasion, secret military bases developing awesome weaponry, birth of great soldiers with tender hearts, etc.).
What's more, in real life, amazing cultural events are held there, people are lively, free to fuck with and marry whoever they want, they still have a genuine sense of humanity with the rest of mankind and have the ability to always dream further on.
The US will always be this glam country with amazing looking women, rags to riches stories, personal dramas and huge lovely houses for the common man.
I don't talk only about landscapes, urban architecture or beautiful housing. Most movies I watched as kids were American ones and they all tend to show that all great stuff happens in the US (alien invasion, secret military bases developing awesome weaponry, birth of great soldiers with tender hearts, etc.).
What's more, in real life, amazing cultural events are held there, people are lively, free to fuck with and marry whoever they want, they still have a genuine sense of humanity with the rest of mankind and have the ability to always dream further on.
The US will always be this glam country with amazing looking women, rags to riches stories, personal dramas and huge lovely houses for the common man.
And country where you have to pay for the incoming text-messages - lunacy, pure and simple lunacy.
But seriously, although I admire USA as a great nation of the great people I still prefer some other countries to envy their citizens.
Switzerland.
Luxembourg.
Australia.
Sweden.
Finland.
Norway.
Netherlands.
New Zealand.
By that particular order.
Exterminieren
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We're done here.
donkey show
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First thing I do when I get back to LA on Sunday from the UK.
just a double double animal style, lol
Work to live, dude. Not live to work.
shadyspace
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England is smaller than the state of New York. That shit still blows my mind.
Smaller than New York with 1/5 the population of the US.
Word. Last week i had a older tourist guy from the US, visiting our castle. Basically what i do is, i tell about the events, weapons, armor, i help people get suited up in the said armor, e.t.c. Not even one minute went by, that the man started to act like a dick, he wanted me to take photos, and a video, and he obviously felt the need to explicitly show me which big and obvious button i have to press to take the said photo. I can understand saying without much intention simply which button that is, but the tedious way he went about it, like it is my first time seeing such a contraption was mind boggling. Then came the worst part, as he was suited up, he started proclaiming with the biggest smile, as he was all dressed up in armor etc. " I'm gonna liberate the Latvian people for Obama and Americuh. " Eugh, i just wanted to punch his face in right then and there. So anyway i take the pic, he said i am a good photographer, then i helped him get the armor off. And to add insult to injury, he asked me how much he owes me. to which i replied with a smile, "Nothing, this is not the US where you have to tip for every little thing", he got somewhat awkward, but alas his smile returned and he was off on his jolly way. Just wanted to vent this silly thing
I couldnt really live in a country with so many people, I imagine taking the subway and feeling so small and irrelevant. I enjoy being in my 3 million people town.
shadyspace
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Really, I'm impressed with how you Euros have been able to build laziness into your society and bill it as something noble. That must have been a bitch to pull off.
When you're competent and efficient it's not really laziness.
Oh, and where's Jenga at? He's missing out here.
It's mainly due to our educational system, which is constantly being undercut by the more powerful enemies of religion and corporate interests. Where else can you find people protesting against teaching children facts because you don't like said facts?
As a result of that kind of education-for-sale attitude, we have a lot of poorly-educated but wealthy people. That's a bad combination, especially when it comes to the delicacies of politics and social planning.
No wonder we're so fat, we're incapable of understanding long-term consequences.
I remember my folks are very positive towards the US during the 90s. Unfortunately, you guys have lost a lot of your former appeal after millenium. And even after Bush the country still isn't very attractive compared to the top destination.
Admittedly, you guys also don't want us to visit you, the bureaucracy for a visa is ridiculous. Why do you hate freedom (of travelling) so much?
Admittedly, you guys also don't want us to visit you, the bureaucracy for a visa is ridiculous. Why do you hate freedom (of travelling) so much?
Yeah, valuing our quality of life over making corporations richer sure is crazy!
I said you guys were 'nice', not 'clever'!
Shadyspace is making me reconsider with his snark though.
Word. Last week i had a older tourist guy from the US, visiting our castle. Basically what i do is, i tell about the events, weapons, armor, i help people get suited up in the said armor, e.t.c. Not even one minute went by, that the man started to act like a dick, he wanted me to take photos, and a video, and he obviously felt the need to explicitly show me which big and obvious button i have to press to take the said photo. I can understand saying without much intention simply which button that is, but the tedious way he went about it, like it is my first time seeing such a contraption was mind boggling. Then came the worst part, as he was suited up, he started proclaiming with the biggest smile, as he was all dressed up in armor etc. " I'm gonna liberate the Latvian people for Obama and Americuh. " Eugh, i just wanted to punch his face in right then and there. So anyway i take the pic, he said i am a good photographer, then i helped him get the armor off. And to add insult to injury, he asked me how much he owes me. to which i replied with a smile, "Nothing, this is not the US where you have to tip for every little thing", he got somewhat awkward, but alas his smile returned and he was off on his jolly way. Just wanted to vent this silly thing
Wow, you live in a castle? I thought that was just a European stereotype. Awesome!
For he himself has said it,
And it's greatly to his credit,
That he is an American!
That he is an American!
For he might have been a Roosian,
A French, or Turk, or Proosian,
Or perhaps Itali-an!
Or perhaps Itali-an!
But in spite of all temptations
To belong to other nations,
He remains an American!
He remains an American!
Beats Americans slaving in an office for 60 hours a week trying to pay of there collage loans from a decade ago. Yeah i come from Scotland we have free healthcare, free schooling systems. Working any more than 32 hours a week is downright sad.
I envy the the people of Swansea Wales.
I don't hate freedom of traveling. I can travel anywhere I want with my American passport.
To be honest I'm not sure you have a leg to stand on, being from the UK. Almost everything that sucks about US culture (working too long, absurd respect for the rich) is because it's derived from the UK.
shadyspace
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My grandfather stayed in a castle during the war when he was injured and his life was saved by a Jewish-American doctor.
I do not see where i said that i live in a castle, i might identify myself with pride of what cultural objects i have got in my town though, as it was clearly understandable in my post. So no, i don't live in a castle, i work in one.
Arjen
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Visa coming from Holland wasn't that hard, just fill out a form online, and the another one on the plane.
The questions you have to answer are hilarious though.
John Dunbar
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non-americans get to enjoy american media without the burden of actually having to live there.
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I already have to work 30+ hours a week just to pay for my schooling, and I expect to be going 40-45 hours a week once I graduate.
I can't imagine a career that only has 32 hours a week, how could I afford rent?
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