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After a long term trend of hipsters thinking it's cool to criticise America, let's hear some positives about our cousins. If you want to be negative start your own thread (i.e. fuck off).
To get us going:
1.Natural beauty - (e.g. the grand canyon)
2.The economy, still the worlds leader in innovation having fended off challenges from the Soviet union, japan and china (so far)
3. Hollywood, whilst it's film formula might be getting old now, it made some of the best moments of your childhood
4. They speak English (sort of)
5. American sports are awesome |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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(Lee)
When its fall in the Appalachian mountains and the leaves are turning.
You look out over the country side and can not believe that the Great Spirit (god) could make so many different shades of yellow and brown.
There is a crispness in the air and the smell of chimneys makes you hungry.
I guess I'm still a Virginia country boy at heart.
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Ok, a few things....
Space - whether it's outside or inside, there is tons of space all around.
Nature - the diversity of natural beauty there is nearly unparalleled in a single country. Our national parks are also outstanding.
Openness - the openness and straight forward attitude of Americans is great. It can seem brash to people who aren't used to it, but I find it honest and comfortable.
Work ethic - the American work ethic can be demanding, but it can also be inspiring. It should perhaps be better balanced for more efficiency, but it's still nice to deal with people so invested in the work they do.
Food - no, I'm not talking about McDonald's. I'm talking about the fact that we take the best food from all over the world and incorporate it into our own culture.
And some things Iove about America, more personally - county fairs, confidence, thanksgiving...
There's so much that I've having trouble writing it all down  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I love America. Travelled around a few states and really enjoyed it.
I'd go there again in a heartbeat if i could afford it and i could travel in a seat with more leg room!! |
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"Ok, a few things....
Space - whether it's outside or inside, there is tons of space all around.
Nature - the diversity of natural beauty there is nearly unparalleled in a single country. Our national parks are also outstanding.
Openness - the openness and straight forward attitude of Americans is great. It can seem brash to people who aren't used to it, but I find it honest and comfortable.
Work ethic - the American work ethic can be demanding, but it can also be inspiring. It should perhaps be better balanced for more efficiency, but it's still nice to deal with people so invested in the work they do.
Food - no, I'm not talking about McDonald's. I'm talking about the fact that we take the best food from all over the world and incorporate it into our own culture.
And some things Iove about America, more personally - county fairs, confidence, thanksgiving...
There's so much that I've having trouble writing it all down "
Average american house floorspace: 77m squared
Average UK house floorspace:
33m squared
France - 43, Germany 55, Australia 89 |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The theme parks in Florida are awesome 
Good one, bigger is better when it comes to theme parks "
Exactly. I love all the rides and rollercoasters the parks have to offer |
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"Ok, a few things....
Space - whether it's outside or inside, there is tons of space all around.
Nature - the diversity of natural beauty there is nearly unparalleled in a single country. Our national parks are also outstanding.
Openness - the openness and straight forward attitude of Americans is great. It can seem brash to people who aren't used to it, but I find it honest and comfortable.
Work ethic - the American work ethic can be demanding, but it can also be inspiring. It should perhaps be better balanced for more efficiency, but it's still nice to deal with people so invested in the work they do.
Food - no, I'm not talking about McDonald's. I'm talking about the fact that we take the best food from all over the world and incorporate it into our own culture.
And some things Iove about America, more personally - county fairs, confidence, thanksgiving...
There's so much that I've having trouble writing it all down
Average american house floorspace: 77m squared
Average UK house floorspace:
33m squared
France - 43, Germany 55, Australia 89"
Tis truly a little island that we find ourselves on |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Average american house floorspace: 77m squared
Average UK house floorspace:
33m squared
France - 43, Germany 55, Australia 89"
When we moved here we had to sell our house. It has two bedrooms (able to fit queen sized beds), a living room, a huge kitchen, a dining room, a spare reading room, a full finished attic, a full unfinished basement, a two car driveway, a yard the same size lot as the house, and front and rear decks.
We had the hardest time selling it because it was "too small for anyone who isn't retired."  |
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
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"In 'n' Out burgers  "
there is a man who has been out west!!!!
it is the one redeeming feature LA has.....
just like anytime i have to change planes at atlanta its one redeeming feature is the Chick-Fil-A in the airport terminal...
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
Newcastle and Gateshead |
"The NFL my favourite sport. Going in December to watch the Gaints play the Cowboys at MetLife Stadium.
GO Gaints
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you had to go and ruin it by mentioning "big blue!"....
J-E-T-S jets jets jets!!!! |
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"The NFL my favourite sport. Going in December to watch the Gaints play the Cowboys at MetLife Stadium.
GO Gaints
you had to go and ruin it by mentioning "big blue!"....
J-E-T-S jets jets jets!!!!"
Jets ended the career of tim tebow  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Fake tits! Fuck yeah!
https://youtu.be/U1mlCPMYtPk
Ok, seriously as it's been many years since I've been to America it's hard to answer this. But as a 'geek' and cinephile I have to acknowledge America's positive influence on those areas.
Plus I spent my youth in the middle east, and I always preferred hanging around with the American expats compared to the other British. Hard to explain why. |
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"Average american house floorspace: 77m squared
Average UK house floorspace:
33m squared
France - 43, Germany 55, Australia 89
When we moved here we had to sell our house. It has two bedrooms (able to fit queen sized beds), a living room, a huge kitchen, a dining room, a spare reading room, a full finished attic, a full unfinished basement, a two car driveway, a yard the same size lot as the house, and front and rear decks.
We had the hardest time selling it because it was "too small for anyone who isn't retired." "
Gotta have a bathroom i could play baseball in and a king size tub big enough for ten plus me |
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
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"The NFL my favourite sport. Going in December to watch the Gaints play the Cowboys at MetLife Stadium.
GO Gaints
you had to go and ruin it by mentioning "big blue!"....
J-E-T-S jets jets jets!!!!
Jets ended the career of tim tebow "
he was well ruined by the time he got to us.... and i think we can blame the university of florida and their co-eds for not ruining tebow enough "if you know what i mean".... lol
anyway.... he is pottering around playing single a baseball in the mets farm system and seems happy enough....
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"The NFL my favourite sport. Going in December to watch the Gaints play the Cowboys at MetLife Stadium.
GO Gaints
you had to go and ruin it by mentioning "big blue!"....
J-E-T-S jets jets jets!!!!"
Absolutely! And in just a few weeks I'll be gorging myself on them again. It's not an attractive quality I grant you; it's my weakness. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The NFL my favourite sport. Going in December to watch the Gaints play the Cowboys at MetLife Stadium.
GO Gaints
you had to go and ruin it by mentioning "big blue!"....
J-E-T-S jets jets jets!!!!
Jets ended the career of tim tebow "
The jets. Didn't we just steal your best receiver?
Tebow ended his own career he was useless. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"New Orleans
I went to the original New Orleans back in 1980 was a very cool place 
I can only imagine "
I wasn't so keen on my glasses steaming up every time I left the hotel though  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"After a long term trend of hipsters thinking it's cool to criticise America, let's hear some positives about our cousins. If you want to be negative start your own thread (i.e. fuck off).
To get us going:
1.Natural beauty - (e.g. the grand canyon)
2.The economy, still the worlds leader in innovation having fended off challenges from the Soviet union, japan and china (so far)
3. Hollywood, whilst it's film formula might be getting old now, it made some of the best moments of your childhood
4. They speak English (sort of)
5. American sports are awesome "
Its not a "trend" to hate on americal....its just so easy, and frankly the deserve alot of the hate they get....as the bring it on themselves |
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
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anyway since courtney is not the only american here... i suppose i best the 'reppin the ATL... the mean streets of Flushing, Queens....... and THE Michigan State University! go green!!!
anyway... love me college football and college basketball, sonic.. in and out.. and chick-fil-a, that i can escape to canada anytime i want... lol |
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
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Absolutely! And in just a few weeks I'll be gorging myself on them again. It's not an attractive quality I grant you; it's my weakness. "
i finally suceeded in getting Krispy Kreme and Five Guys over here (yes it was me... i am the victor)
next on my list.... Chick-Fil-a and "in and out".... so could you put in a word!!!!
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"anyway since courtney is not the only american here... i suppose i best the 'reppin the ATL... the mean streets of Flushing, Queens....... and THE Michigan State University! go green!!!
anyway... love me college football and college basketball, sonic.. in and out.. and chick-fil-a, that i can escape to canada anytime i want... lol "
Smaller houses in canada though... |
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"anyway since courtney is not the only american here... i suppose i best the 'reppin the ATL... the mean streets of Flushing, Queens....... and THE Michigan State University! go green!!!
anyway... love me college football and college basketball, sonic.. in and out.. and chick-fil-a, that i can escape to canada anytime i want... lol "
Basketball! How could I forget basketball? And baseball. American sports rock.  |
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"Average american house floorspace: 77m squared
Average UK house floorspace:
33m squared
France - 43, Germany 55, Australia 89
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Trouble is if you go to the other end of the spectrum there are 1,000's of families living in near poverty conditions in trailer parks |
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Absolutely! And in just a few weeks I'll be gorging myself on them again. It's not an attractive quality I grant you; it's my weakness.
i finally suceeded in getting Krispy Kreme and Five Guys over here (yes it was me... i am the victor)
next on my list.... Chick-Fil-a and "in and out".... so could you put in a word!!!!
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Of course. I'll screenshot your profile and ask them to leave it behind the counter. It's the one behind New York New York in Las Vegas  |
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"Average american house floorspace: 77m squared
Average UK house floorspace:
33m squared
France - 43, Germany 55, Australia 89
Trouble is if you go to the other end of the spectrum there are 1,000's of families living in near poverty conditions in trailer parks "
Positives remember!  |
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"Average american house floorspace: 77m squared
Average UK house floorspace:
33m squared
France - 43, Germany 55, Australia 89
Trouble is if you go to the other end of the spectrum there are 1,000's of families living in near poverty conditions in trailer parks "
True 45 million live below poverty line..I bet they dont have big houses. |
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"Average american house floorspace: 77m squared
Average UK house floorspace:
33m squared
France - 43, Germany 55, Australia 89
Trouble is if you go to the other end of the spectrum there are 1,000's of families living in near poverty conditions in trailer parks True 45 million live below poverty line..I bet they dont have big houses."
If you're going to be a negative nathan then you'll be banished back to the politics forum where moaning is the default |
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By *oi_LucyCouple
over a year ago
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Absolutely! And in just a few weeks I'll be gorging myself on them again. It's not an attractive quality I grant you; it's my weakness.
i finally suceeded in getting Krispy Kreme and Five Guys over here (yes it was me... i am the victor)
next on my list.... Chick-Fil-a and "in and out".... so could you put in a word!!!!
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Good work In n Out would be awesome over here.
4x4 protein animal style please!
-Matt |
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"Average american house floorspace: 77m squared
Average UK house floorspace:
33m squared
France - 43, Germany 55, Australia 89
Trouble is if you go to the other end of the spectrum there are 1,000's of families living in near poverty conditions in trailer parks True 45 million live below poverty line..I bet they dont have big houses.
If you're going to be a negative nathan then you'll be banished back to the politics forum where moaning is the default"
I'd rather have a politics thread than a sportsball one. |
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By *oi_LucyCouple
over a year ago
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I used to live right on the Hudson river, opposite Vassar College. One thing I love about America is the sheer space they have there. I have very fond memories sat in the hot tub on the side of the gorge watching the sun come up the other side of the river.
And on a similar vein... hiking in the Adirondack mountains and canoeing along the river. Recognising places and geographic features written in James Fenimore Cooper books a couple of hundred years earlier.
-Matt |
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Its naivety and lack of scepticism. Free soup or salad with a meal. The way it's proud of it's history and it's flag. Things like going to see the trees in fall and the mountain's flowering in spring are done with huge enthusiasm. |
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"I used to live right on the Hudson river, opposite Vassar College. One thing I love about America is the sheer space they have there. I have very fond memories sat in the hot tub on the side of the gorge watching the sun come up the other side of the river.
And on a similar vein... hiking in the Adirondack mountains and canoeing along the river. Recognising places and geographic features written in James Fenimore Cooper books a couple of hundred years earlier.
-Matt"
Love the Adirondack mountains. Had a country house there when I was growing up. I was trying to explain the joys of tubing on the Hudson river to a fellow fabber just the other weekend and its hard to put into words. |
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"I like the way their police officers are huge! And armed! "
I blame the doughnuts....
If it weren't for the doughnuts they could chase down the bad guys instead of unloading a full clip into them,,,,,,
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"I like the way their police officers are huge! And armed!
I blame the doughnuts....
If it weren't for the doughnuts they could chase down the bad guys instead of unloading a full clip into them,,,,,,
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don't run from the cops! |
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"I like the way their police officers are huge! And armed!
I blame the doughnuts....
If it weren't for the doughnuts they could chase down the bad guys instead of unloading a full clip into them,,,,,,
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"I like the way their police officers are huge! And armed!
I blame the doughnuts....
If it weren't for the doughnuts they could chase down the bad guys instead of unloading a full clip into them,,,,,,
don't run from the cops! "
Running away, since when was that an option in the USA.......
Hey I'm a poet...... |
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By *abioMan
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"I like the way their police officers are huge! And armed!
I blame the doughnuts....
If it weren't for the doughnuts they could chase down the bad guys instead of unloading a full clip into them,,,,,,
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speaking of doughnuts....
tim horton's have finally arrived in the UK and have opened a shop in glasgow... and the plan is to work their way southwards!!! |
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"I like the way their police officers are huge! And armed!
I blame the doughnuts....
If it weren't for the doughnuts they could chase down the bad guys instead of unloading a full clip into them,,,,,,
speaking of doughnuts....
tim horton's have finally arrived in the UK and have opened a shop in glasgow... and the plan is to work their way southwards!!!"
Well there goes my healthy eating and fitness plan. |
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