HaveAny Of You Actually Been In The USA?

HaveAny Of You Actually Been In The USA?

With all the baloney anti-US threads on here, I thought I'd point out a few things I found whilst living there..
It's pretty vast, 50+ contiguous States each much bigger than many European 'countries'. I drove across it three times.
The average basic social security payments are a fraction of Euro taxes, and my health coverage - that covered dental and pregnancy for my New Jersey wife, was a quarter of UK schemes.
There's a fully equiped medical facility every 20 miles or so - with a hospital in every large conurbation. If you dial 911 - anything will turn up within a minute or two that was in the area at the time - with the actual responders a couple of minutes behind. When my wife collapsed, an articulated Fire Ladder truck, with half a dozen men, were pulling up before I'd put the phone down. Compare that to Britain, etc.
It's only meat eating and soda drinking that generally lets any country's weight balloon - in the US there is always the choice of a wide range of Deli, Mexican, Salads and Subs at next to nothing prices.
The cars in the US generally have to cope with 10× the distances of Europe - Fiats and Minis aren't an option. 2.6L is a basic need with the temps ranging from -30 to +30c and 4000ft being 'lowland' or mesa in much of the country.
85% of the women are seriously sexy - compared to British women it's a Wonderland, really. I never saw an obesity 'problem' whilst in Fla, Mich. or California.
I worked in security and only ever saw one unholstered gun in 2 years outside of firing ranges.
I only saw one set of roadworks in 2 years - they were moving a mountain in Utah next to the Freeway...

Anybody else know what they're talking about / have any real recollections of America?

Originally posted by Belfrager:

Maybe the reason is that the kind of American that is willing to visit us are so different from the average American... people very much interested in culture, arts, gastronomy

And the average Portuguese is "very much interested in culture, arts, gastronomy"?

Below we see a group of average Portuguese discussing Madama Butterfly.

Originally posted by jbrothernew37:

And the average Portuguese is "very much interested in culture, arts, gastronomy"?Below we see a group of average Portuguese discussing Madama Butterfly.

Exactly. Do you see any of them in front of a computer posting idiocies?...

Originally posted by Belfrager:

Originally posted by jbrothernew37:

And the average Portuguese is "very much interested in culture, arts, gastronomy"? Below we see a group of average Portuguese discussing Madama Butterfly.

Exactly. Do you see any of them in front of a computer posting idiocies?...

They're Portuguese, so they don't know what computers are.

Bread and olives. Bread and olives.

Originally posted by jbrothernew37:

They're Portuguese, so they don't know what computers are.

Bread and olives. Bread and olives.

And . Don't forget the . Go to a decent Portuguese restaurant some day, make sure you have plenty of time. You won't miss your computer. People who put that much effort into their food & drink can't be that bad. They might be on to something

Originally posted by Macallan:

Go to a decent Portuguese restaurant some day, make sure you have plenty of time.

Lordy, man! I live in Grand Rapids, Michigan!
McDonalds, Pizza Heaven, Burpo's Burgers, The Noodle Joint, Chinese Sandwich Bistro.

I'll keep it in mind if I ever wander into a cosmopolitan area, though.

If you had a Portugese restaurant opened you would have to tell the uninformed local ex-Colonists that Portugal is a country then sit back and watch their surrise at such.

On the other hand--- In Chicago, there's probably a Portuguese restaurant. They've got just about every group you can imagine represented there somewhere.

Well it's a big city mjsmsprt40 so I gues one can expect a whole variety of reastaurants portraying food from everywhere. Are you into such or more local? No probs with that at all as it is common in main cities in most countries. Me? I am conservative about what I eat and even when I occasionally visit a Chinese restaurant here, I have steak and chips (fries to you-hoo ), mixed grill, fish n' chips or some local stuff). Like the way they do them.

Originally posted by mjmsprt40:

On the other hand--- In Chicago, there's probably a Portuguese restaurant. They've got just about every group you can imagine represented there somewhere.

I have a Nigerian restaurant within walking distance

Originally posted by rjhowie:

If you had a Portugese restaurant opened you would have to tell the uninformed local ex-Colonists that Portugal is a country then sit back and watch their surrise at such.

The Rj mantra, once again with gusto...

"Yada-yada-yada-yada over the pond!
Yada-yada-yada-yada over the pond!
Yada-yada-yada-yada over the pond!
Yada-yada-yada-yada over the pond!
Don't need no evidence!
Don't need no evidence!
Don't need no evidence!
Don't need no evidence!
Yada-yada-yada-yada over the pond!"

If we didn't exist, you'd have to invent us to have a vessel for your inane vitriol.

Spell checker, Rj, spell checker!

Funny thing, these days most browsers come with a spell checker. Opera was one of the longest hold-outs, but today it has a spell-checker too.

Originally posted by mjmsprt40:

Opera was one of the longest hold-outs

It's had one for quite a long time, but you used to have to press some button like F7 because things weren't automatically underlined. /nitpick

Jaybro just keep watching the news, crime stats, wars started, shooting sprees, poverty, fighting for "enshrined" rights, bases opened, countries picked on. I just remind.

Jaybro you need your eyes open.
Jaybro you need your eyes open.
Jaybro you need your eyes open.
The pond isn't far enough away
The pond isn't far enough away
No evidence how's that for a laugh
How's that for a laugh.

The so-called inane vitriol is cosmetic cover because it is too near the damn truth for a soft mind to have to admit. Just the other day another documentary on people having lack of rights in the ex-Colonies when fighting big corporations who really run the place. You don't need to make anything up it is factual. So tough it's your hypocrisy-democracy that is the unfortunate existence. It's okay for you in your cumfy wee corner you're not one of the tens of millions who are suffering in the land of the free and home of the brave fantasy land. So add that to your list of descriptions of my pogroms.

Originally posted by rjhowie:

It's okay for you in your cumfy wee corner you're not one of the tens of millions who are suffering in the land of the free and home of the brave fantasy land.

We could ship our poor overseas to bolster your waning population. (They wouldn't mind the change in circumstances: We'd guarantee them the same standard of living they had here as "poor in the U.S." and they'd adjust to being middle-class in Scotland… )

Originally posted by rjhowie:

Jaybro just keep watching the news, crime stats, wars started, shooting sprees, poverty, fighting for "enshrined" rights, bases opened, countries picked on. I just remind.

Jaybro you need your eyes open.
Jaybro you need your eyes open.
Jaybro you need your eyes open.
The pond isn't far enough away
The pond isn't far enough away
No evidence how's that for a laugh
How's that for a laugh.

The so-called inane vitriol is cosmetic cover because it is too near the damn truth for a soft mind to have to admit. Just the other day another documentary on people having lack of rights in the ex-Colonies when fighting big corporations who really run the place. You don't need to make anything up it is factual. So tough it's your hypocrisy-democracy that is the unfortunate existence. It's okay for you in your cumfy wee corner you're not one of the tens of millions who are suffering in the land of the free and home of the brave fantasy land. So add that to your list of descriptions of my pogroms.

I think I'd rather have my situation than yours, any day. Having to live with a xenophobic, more than slightly bigoted don't like anybody that doesn't live in my neighborhood and look like me mindset is a terrible thing. Thank God, I don't have to.

Seriously, do you really think for one minute if we put our minds to it that we couldn't find enough terrible things about Glasgow, Scotland??? It's a large enough city and metropolitan area that I daresay we could find stuff to make anybody wonder why a sane person would choose to live there. For that matter, with a little digging I think we can question why anyone would choose to live North of Hadrian's Wall. Shall we give it a try?

Personally, I won't go in for that because I don't want to spend so much time in the "First Church of Hate Everybody". I have enough on my plate as it is.

Now, as it happens I spend a good bit of time driving all over the middle part of the United States. You know, it's a funny thing. When you get out and take a look, it really isn't that bad a place. There's lots of decent folk who won't shoot you on sight-- not that you'd know it from RJ's posts. There's even lots of decent folk in bad neighborhoods, believe it or not.

Originally posted by mjmsprt40:

Funny thing, these days most browsers come with a spell checker. Opera was one of the longest hold-outs, but today it has a spell-checker too.

rjh please note, (pretty please)!

By the way Opera Android has no spell checker; maybe I should start misspelling Opeara as a protest.

Originally posted by string:

By the way Opera Android has no spell checker; maybe I should start misspelling Opeara as a protest.

Goodness. All this time I thought it was "Oprah".

Another 'sheeessshhh' episode in the life of the aging poster boy.