This is a nice thread. What are the things you like about the US? No sarcasm, please.
What I like about the US!
This is a nice thread. What are the things you like about the US? No sarcasm, please.
Re: What I like about the US!
Is this one of those "thin books" jokes like Great French Military Victories?
Hmmm, what I like most about the US...
My mother.
Unto each good man a good dog
Re: What I like about the US!
The TV and militant democracy.
Viva La Rasa!!!
Re: What I like about the US!
how cheap everything is when I go there on holiday
Last edited by ShadesPanther; 06-13-2005 at 12:22.
"A man may fight for many things: his country, his principles, his friends, the glistening tear on the cheek of a golden child. But personally, I'd mudwrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock and a stack of French porn."
- Edmund Blackadder
Re: What I like about the US!
The way you can easily get into an interesting conversation with a complete stranger - regardless of his/her position in society (it might be the businessman on the plane, the taxi driver, the homeless guy who asks you for spare change, or some guy who sits next to you when you have your breakfast in some small town)
The absolute willingness of most people to put an effort in helping you even if they do not know you (experienced that countless times while traveling in the US).
The vast and beautiful landscape - I just loved it to drive through the country, sometimes sitting in the only car to be seen on the road, able to stop at the side of the road any time I felt like it, just to watch the scenery.
The strange way you can get addicted to an actually horrible beverage like rootbeer
Barbecues
And there are probably more things I might add later on
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Rootbeer is the key to U.S. power.Originally Posted by Ser Clegane
"We are lovers of beauty without extravagance and of learning without loss of vigor." -Thucydides
"The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage." -Thucydides
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Ice Hockey,movies and Jack Daniels.
Ja Mata Tosainu Sama.
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The BoSox.
"What, have Canadians run out of guns to steal from other Canadians and now need to piss all over our glee?"
- TSM
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The scary thing is - after I overcame my initial disgust I really started to like this stuff - no visit to the US without having an obligatory can of rootbeer.Rootbeer is the key to U.S. power.
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Family Guy
The Simpsons
The Internet
Computers
My American family members
Good American food
:)
Eppur si muove
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A sound policy.The scary thing is - after I overcame my initial disgust I really started to like this stuff - no visit to the US without having an obligatory can of rootbeer.
"We are lovers of beauty without extravagance and of learning without loss of vigor." -Thucydides
"The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage." -Thucydides
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Is this done to compensate all the American-bashing or do you seek some American friends?
Ok, then. The only thing I like is their ice-hockey and baseball leagues. I don't know whether that counts in you topic
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24 (tv program) top class!
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Coffee. And proper food for prices I can actually afford.
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"Now basketball is my favourite sport"
Lil'Bow Wow - Basketball(Soundtrack from the film Like Mike)
Ja mata, TosaInu. You will forever be remembered.
Proud
Been to:
Swords Made of Letters - 1938. The war is looming in France - and Alexandre Reythier does not have much time left to protect his country. A novel set before the war.
A Painted Shield of Honour - 1313. Templar Knights in France are in grave danger. Can they be saved?
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Forgot Starbucks!
NFL is pretty good. better than the other sports although Ice Hockey is alright I guess.
"A man may fight for many things: his country, his principles, his friends, the glistening tear on the cheek of a golden child. But personally, I'd mudwrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock and a stack of French porn."
- Edmund Blackadder
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Tv-shows, movies and ofcourse half my family
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[QUOTE=Ldvs]Is this done to compensate all the American-bashing or do you seek some American friends?
No! I really love to discuss about American politics
But to me it is too much black and white. I just want to see what Americans. Europeans or others love about the US.
P.S.: Why do Canadians call the US Americans?
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Good question. First, I think, because it's the United States of America. Therefore Americans seems a logical contraction or colloquialism if you would.
As an extension to this contraction, since they get the America, we get the North.North is cool.
Canadians, also, have a somewhat deperate desire not to be tied to, or seen as, (US) Americans, to the point where we refused our seat at the OAS (Organization of American States, which encompases all of North, Central, and South America) for years. The reason was that the US would obviously rule over the whole body and Canada did not want to lend credence to that overlordship. In the end, that scumbag PM of ours, Mulroney, exactly in order to appease the US, joined and we lost our sense of dispassionate objectivity.
We like to see ourselves tied to the global community as opposed to tied to the US. By distancing ourselves from the image, and name of, Americans, I think we do just that.
But I still love Americans. They're all squishy and warm and fuzzy.
Unto each good man a good dog
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Its several thousand miles away.
They speak English, albeit a bastardised English, but at least they are sensible and are backing the winning horse. They are helping to spread English throughout the world which makes global communication much easier.
They dislike the French.
They have a positive war aggregate with the United Kingdom. A good ally is always useful and so we can forgive the occasional friendly fire incident.
The South is full of some downright decent country folk, although being white and straight can occasionally help.
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Cowardice is to run from the fear;
Bravery is not to never feel the fear.
Bravery is to be terrified as hell;
But to hold the line anyway.
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I've never been there, but US tourists are always friendly.
They have managed to make entertainment a goal in itself, although the current 'entertainment' we get from there is pretty bad.
They're a great example of the Euro liberals (in the euro sense).
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