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Fellow Americans, do you realize how much people envy us?
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Yes, yes they are.
el retorno
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Yes, I lived in Spain for a bit.
Yeah, there are quite a few F1 drivers that live in Monaco. There are a lot that live in Switzerland as well though.
krypt0nian
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You just don't know real bikers if you say that shit. They're still the true American Classic. An Icon.
You used the word pastiche. You know nothing about iron.
shanshan310
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We get to be in the commonwealth games, and a letter from the queen once we reach 100. You jelly America?
Sounds like good logic to me!
Nope.
Most of that desert is full of minerals that are making us rich, but we've also got tropical rainforests, bushland, forests, snowy mountains. Baby, we've got it aaaall.
Beautifully Shaped Monsters
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I think this is very true, at least from a personal perspective. Your country has done such amazing things, you were the bannermen of integrity and honesty. It used to be that everybody had a fair chance of making it, and everybody did. But I think you probably peaked around 1950.
Something broke. I don't know what exactly, but it seems to me you have been in steady decline since then. Of course, you still did and do awesome things, the Space program, the internet, it's clearly in your soul to innovate and push mankind forward, but increasingly you get bogged down in protecting the wealthy at the cost of those who should be building the country tomorrow. Your healthcare, you education cost and your political system all seems like it was designed to keep the status quo.
I'm from Scandinavia myself, and while I don't think our culture encourages innovation to the same extend yours still does, I believe it makes us happier and more content in our lives.
I love your country, I love what you have done for the world, but you scare me more often than not these days. And sometimes you just downright piss me off.
shadyspace
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Yes, you are all welcome for Friends. The most original television premise ever conceived.
Three's company, All in the Family, Sanford and Son and The Office are American classics.
As a fellow pale person, I concur. Fuck the beach right in the ear...
Wut.
Hang on, wasn't the whole biker look adopted by the geighs precisely because it's a pastiche of traditional masculine gender norms?
Here in the UK they're just City boys. They don't even nod back smh.
krypt0nian
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this is a real bike:
For women.
Did you mean: Indian?
Didn't they have to invent a racing series specifically for Harleys so that they stood the slightest chance of actually winning?
They make a great noise though, I'll give you that.
Problem?
Trent Strong
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Asia isn't a country. But it does include such countries as North Korea. And Russia? Seriously?
No offense meant by your deserts. I like Aussies, rugby and the accents.
maniac-kun
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Dear Americans - fuck you.
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Funny how you didn't notice they're all based on UK shows.
Dear Europe, we're taking you down with us.
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I didn't notice because I didn't know that Three's Company, Sanford and Son, and All in the Family were based in the UK. I knew about The Office though.
Yeah and they look fantastic.
Americans have a lot to be proud of, but you shouldn't be listing your food or your politics amongst those things.
Its not as good as people make it out to be, and its not as bad. I enjoy my life here, but I'm not blind to America's problems.
I'm also not so attatched to it that I would never consider leaving for a better place. Its what my parents did, and honestly I never wanted to spend my whole life in one country.
I'm also not so attatched to it that I would never consider leaving for a better place. Its what my parents did, and honestly I never wanted to spend my whole life in one country.
Trent Strong
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Shady Space is high as a fucking kite right now.
I've lived in England, Ireland, and Greece at various times in my life, but have spent most of my life in the US. I grew up in Queens, lived for a while near a trailer park in Lorain, Ohio, I've spent weeks in Athens overlooking the Acropolis, on the beaches of Bundoran... I am glad to have had the experiences I've had, because they give me perspective. America has a high quality of life, but I've never not felt that here, more than any other place, people are disconnected and unhappy. There is something forced and unnatural about living in this place.
I think it has to do with education, and a built-in cultural sense of superiority. Everyone is taught from so young that they are better than everybody else.
I think it has to do with education, and a built-in cultural sense of superiority. Everyone is taught from so young that they are better than everybody else.
Seems to be the other way around right now.
shadyspace
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I prefer the Chilean Office.
krypt0nian
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Racing? You think they're about racing?
Nevermind. You're just trolling now. Harleys are about cruising the open road.
Get a real racer from Japan if you want to race. I thought we were talking classics.
That's what we want you to think.
It's 7 am and I haven't slept. I have no idea what I'm saying.
shanshan310
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Australia is the true victor here.
When I mentioned the Brough Superior, the classic war was won in one fell swoop. It's unarguably the classic bike.
If we're talking classics, I'll take BSA, Norton, Triumph, Vincent, Velocette & Brough over Harley. Indian too.
I give them 20 years before suddenly deadly venomous houseplants murder them all. Nothing in Australia is not deadly. It just hasn't chosen to strike yet.
krypt0nian
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Perhaps you can look up synonyms for pastiche while you're riding on the back?
Well then you missed the whole point. Second best is fine. As long as you have two wheels, you'll be better than those who don't. So enjoy that at least.
Wind's Howling
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Yeah, despite you know, the whole shit-storm that started this beginning in the USofA with toxic mortgage swaps. If we didn't have to bail out banks who had been dipping their fingers in govt debt would be lower and austerity would not be needed.
Must be nice for the US to be able to point the finger for the first time in 4 years.
Sutton Dagger
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I look forward to going to the US on my next holiday, don't think I would ever want to live there though. For some reason America is/was fairly low on my list of places to see, that's why I travelled to Asia and Europe first. It just doesn't really have the history, at least in comparison to many other countries.
Geeze, I hope you're not a representation of a normal person from the Netherlands. Quite rude if I may say so myself.
Not sure if I'll be able to take time out from looking so cool to do that, tbh.
That's not what started it for Europe, Europe's own failings paved the way for the current crisis. The house of cards was going to come down at one point, US mortgage crisis was just the trigger.
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I just posted a serious reply in a Korey thread. fml
Trent Strong
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Now I just don't know what you're talking about.
MuzzledBasher
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I wonder if there are potentially many Japanese counterparts to TC who compile quotes from random 'weaboos' and Japanophiles on the net as some sort of proof that to be born Japanese is worth envy... If you need it to give you some confidence boost in your life then it's not that bad I guess.
krypt0nian
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Wind's Howling
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There's a same amount of rudeness in his post where he possibly thinks that I am so 'dumb' that I can not even know that Asia is not a country.
I thought the point was a vehicular dick-waving competition?
You could've just pulled this out and won:
I will fellate many, many men for a Dodge Hemi Dart.
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