What I like about the US!

**GoreBag** · 06-13-2005, 20:17

The porn industry.

How sensitive to cold they all seem to be ("how cold is -25C?").

How they just don't understand that Bob 'n Doug MacKenzie were not an honest representation of Canadian culture.

Florida Death Metal.

Side note: Is A&W really an American chain? I have an inkling it was started in Canada, for some reason...

**Ser Clegane** · 06-13-2005, 20:35

Originally Posted by Skomatth

Have you ever been to an A&W Rootbeer fastfood place?

I have not tried that one yet - but I will keep it in mind for the next time I visit the US and need my "rootbeer-fix"

**Nelson** · 06-13-2005, 20:40

Originally Posted by Ser Clegane

I have not tried that one yet - but I will keep it in mind for the next time I visit the US and need my "rootbeer-fix"

Try dumping some icecream into that rootbeer. Oh yeah!

**IliaDN** · 06-13-2005, 20:56

On topic: outer politics , maybe , because they are good at strengthening their country ...

**GoreBag** · 06-13-2005, 21:00

Originally Posted by Nelson

Try dumping some icecream into that rootbeer. Oh yeah!

Ah, the mighty Root Beer Float. A&W serves those too.

**IliaDN** · 06-13-2005, 21:03

Oh , forget about Manowar - viva power metal.

**DemonArchangel** · 06-13-2005, 21:04

Let's see what I like:

*The Guns. Hell, there's no place in Europe where you can go to a minigun shoot.

*The violent videogames banned everywhere else.

*The Jack Daniels

* The SIMPSONS!

* The Humor.

* The varieties of food.

* The varieties of culture.

**Kaiser of Arabia** · 06-13-2005, 21:30

Originally Posted by Ser Clegane

I have not tried that one yet - but I will keep it in mind for the next time I visit the US and need my "rootbeer-fix"

Damn A&W is good. They don't have those in Germany?
I'm screwed.

**Ser Clegane** · 06-13-2005, 21:35

Originally Posted by Kaiser of Arabia

Damn A&W is good. They don't have those in Germany?
I'm screwed.

At least I have not seen it yet...

BTW, of course I expect you to eat the local food if you come here

But you will also find lots of Italian food in all price categories

**GoreBag** · 06-13-2005, 21:47

Originally Posted by IliaDN

Oh , forget about Manowar - viva power metal.

(shudder)

Originally Posted by DemonArchangel

Let's see what I like:

*The violent videogames banned everywhere else.

Those are only banned in the States...and Australia.

**Kaiser of Arabia** · 06-13-2005, 21:51

Originally Posted by Ser Clegane

At least I have not seen it yet...

BTW, of course I expect you to eat the local food if you come here

But you will also find lots of Italian food in all price categories

lol yeah German foods gooooood....but I don't think I can make it a month without an A&W Rootbeer!

**Proletariat** · 06-13-2005, 22:20

Originally Posted by Goofball

The BoSox.

Hating the Yankees nationwide is also a pretty swell thing we do.

Except for those idiots from the Bronx who can't even name the last short stop who played before Jeter.

**Kaiser of Arabia** · 06-13-2005, 22:34

Originally Posted by Proletariat

Hating the Yankees nationwide is also a pretty swell thing we do.

Except for those idiots from the Bronx who can't even name the last short stop who played before Jeter.

What? The Yankees are the greatest baseball team since the dodgers left Brooklyn! HOW DARE YOU!

**Skomatth** · 06-13-2005, 23:08

Originally Posted by NeonGod

Side note: Is A&W really an American chain? I have an inkling it was started in Canada, for some reason...

From the A&W website:

One hot day in June of 1919, in Lodi, California, an entrepreneur named Roy Allen mixed up a batch of creamy root beer and sold the first frosty mug of this delightful beverage for one nickel. Now, seventy years later, A&W Root Beer is the world's number one selling root beer and is still made fresh daily and sold at hundreds of A&W Restaurants.

**GoreBag** · 06-13-2005, 23:38

Fair enough, but Canada keeps Harvey's.

**Pindar** · 06-14-2005, 01:18

Originally Posted by Ser Clegane

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.

A sound policy.

**Taffy_is_a_Taff** · 06-14-2005, 01:23

thanks I forgot about:
root beer and guns
Two of my favourite things.

I just spend Sunday shooting lots of guns in the middle of nowhere.

No Rootbeer though :(

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

**Papewaio** · 06-14-2005, 01:30

Nasa

**Teleklos Archelaou** · 06-14-2005, 01:50

-The blue plate lunch special at a good southern grocery store or gas station for $4.00
-Family Guy, South Park, The Venture Brothers
-Sweet tea and lemonade
-Severe late afternoon thunderstorms
-NCAA Basketball
-Fried catfish on Fridays
-Cheap books
-Lots of attractive and smart female international graduate students

**Kaiser of Arabia** · 06-14-2005, 02:04

All the pointless political parties (the Scorched Earth Party,,, nuff said)

**Quietus** · 06-14-2005, 02:17

Freedom of Speech.

Awhile ago two peeps try to introduce/convert me to religion. Guess who left scratching their heads and confused of their faith.

**kiwitt** · 06-14-2005, 02:20

1) Standing for Freedom

I know it is hard to believe, given the way countries attack it's recent actions. It is still a lot better than many countries at giving freedom.

2) The Movies

If I could do nothing else, I would be happing watching movies all day. It's escapism is a real help to ease pressures of everyday life.

3) The Technology

Where would we be without the PC, the Console, the Games, the Internet, etc. etc. Also the occasional trip into space.

4) It's People

For doing all the above. The US is made from up from hundreds of other countries immigrants, from Italians, to Irish and everything in between. It is a microcoism of the wider world.

**JAG** · 06-14-2005, 02:31

Baseball.

'Nuff said.

**Proletariat** · 06-14-2005, 02:41

Originally Posted by JAG

Baseball.

'Nuff said.

I knew it was somewhere! I knew it! On the Diamond, all along!

Sweet, sweet common ground.

**ichi** · 06-14-2005, 04:07

Originally Posted by DemonArchangel

Let's see what I like:

*The Guns. Hell, there's no place in Europe where you can go to a minigun shoot.

*The violent videogames banned everywhere else.

*The Jack Daniels

* The SIMPSONS!

* The Humor.

* The varieties of food.

* The varieties of culture.

^^^what he said^^^

and a lot of little things, like Smokey the Bear, County Fairs, the Rocky Mountains, baseball, the Marine Corps, cheap gas, Las Vegas, and pizza delivery.

What country!

**bmolsson** · 06-14-2005, 05:10

I like mostly everything about US, except the foreign policies.......

**Productivity** · 06-14-2005, 05:32

Originally Posted by Kaiser of Arabia

All the pointless political parties (the Scorched Earth Party,,, nuff said)

Bah, you have nothing on the British.

As to the topic, I really do like America. There are just a few little things about it that I don't like but that goes for anywhere/anyone, but overall, it's a great place.

**Samurai Waki** · 06-14-2005, 07:36

-The General Outward Friendliness of most people, in most parts of the country (yes, even many people I have met in ghettos are rather nice... just don't stay out to late or get involved with gangs.)

-Guns and Hunting for the masses (Hunting is one of my favorite things to do in the fall... in most places in the world hunting is privatized.)

-Food (I don't care what you think... after eating seafood for 7 months straight, nothing is better than a good steak or hamburger grilled in good ol' Americana.)

-Politics aside, Americans in general are nice people and liberally accepting people... even though we have our radicals, religious feuding between Christians/ Non-Christians is relatively nil, if someone says something bad about the other side, chances are the other side never hears it.) Unless there is some dumbass thing about an athiest wanting "in god we trust" off the national anthem, it's still important to recognize our nation's history and tradition... most of which comes from those uptight werido Pilgrims with buckles on their hats. (Unfortunately my ancestors were one's themselves).

-Fiercely Loyal, being an American by birth, I am still loyal to the cause of our freedom and democracy, although somewhat skeptical about our current policies, if there was ever an attempt to overthrow the government into something outside of being democratic or relatively free society (hey we can still pray to whomever we want, or not at all! and we still have equal opportunity) I think millions upon millions of people from every niche' in American society would find themselves in common ground, liberals... conservatives... hippies... the vast majority of people can still come together in trying times... just look at WWII.