Are Americans especially thick?
May 6th 2002, 9:20 am
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Are Americans especially thick?
I have been astonished by some of the threads on r.t.e lately.
Is there drinking water in Europe? Can you buy batteries in Europe? Can you buy
petrol in Europe? Is it safe to go to Europe if you are Jewish?
Here`s my question. Should educational standards in American schools, particularly in
relation to the world which exists outside the U.S. border, be raised to the standard
which exists in the rest of the world?
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Regards, Vince Truck Driving In Russia- www.coventon.co.uk
Is there drinking water in Europe? Can you buy batteries in Europe? Can you buy
petrol in Europe? Is it safe to go to Europe if you are Jewish?
Here`s my question. Should educational standards in American schools, particularly in
relation to the world which exists outside the U.S. border, be raised to the standard
which exists in the rest of the world?
--
Regards, Vince Truck Driving In Russia- www.coventon.co.uk
May 6th 2002, 9:50 am
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Re: Are Americans especially thick?
In article <[email protected]>,
"vince" <don`[email protected]`t.read.it> wrote:
> I have been astonished by some of the threads on r.t.e lately.
>
> Is there drinking water in Europe? Can you buy batteries in Europe? Can you buy
> petrol in Europe? Is it safe to go to Europe if you are Jewish?
>
> Here`s my question. Should educational standards in American schools, particularly
> in relation to the world which exists outside the U.S. border, be raised to the
> standard which exists in the rest of the world?
>
> --
> Regards, Vince Truck Driving In Russia- www.coventon.co.uk
>
>
Are you so 'thick' as to accept this sample of posts as a random and representative
sampling of U.S. tourists?
Spend much time on rec.travel.usa-canada ? What conclusions do you draw from
that group ?
jay Mon, May 6, 2002 mailto:[email protected]
--
Legend insists that as he finished his abject... Galileo muttered under his breath:
"Nevertheless, it does move."
"vince" <don`[email protected]`t.read.it> wrote:
> I have been astonished by some of the threads on r.t.e lately.
>
> Is there drinking water in Europe? Can you buy batteries in Europe? Can you buy
> petrol in Europe? Is it safe to go to Europe if you are Jewish?
>
> Here`s my question. Should educational standards in American schools, particularly
> in relation to the world which exists outside the U.S. border, be raised to the
> standard which exists in the rest of the world?
>
> --
> Regards, Vince Truck Driving In Russia- www.coventon.co.uk
>
>
Are you so 'thick' as to accept this sample of posts as a random and representative
sampling of U.S. tourists?
Spend much time on rec.travel.usa-canada ? What conclusions do you draw from
that group ?
jay Mon, May 6, 2002 mailto:[email protected]
--
Legend insists that as he finished his abject... Galileo muttered under his breath:
"Nevertheless, it does move."
May 6th 2002, 9:50 am
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Re: Are Americans especially thick?
In article <[email protected]>, don`[email protected]`t.read.it says...
> I have been astonished by some of the threads on r.t.e lately.
>
> Is there drinking water in Europe? Can you buy batteries in Europe? Can you buy
> petrol in Europe? Is it safe to go to Europe if you are Jewish?
>
> Here`s my question. Should educational standards in American schools, particularly
> in relation to the world which exists outside the U.S. border, be raised to the
> standard which exists in the rest of the world?
>
My bird spent a summer nannying for a family in New York a couple of years ago. They
asked her if she knew what a microwave was, and "do you have VCRs in the UK?"
--
Hywel Never knowingly understood WSWIP http://hyweljenkins.co.uk/ MicroFAQ
http://hyweljenkins.co.uk/mfaq.php
> I have been astonished by some of the threads on r.t.e lately.
>
> Is there drinking water in Europe? Can you buy batteries in Europe? Can you buy
> petrol in Europe? Is it safe to go to Europe if you are Jewish?
>
> Here`s my question. Should educational standards in American schools, particularly
> in relation to the world which exists outside the U.S. border, be raised to the
> standard which exists in the rest of the world?
>
My bird spent a summer nannying for a family in New York a couple of years ago. They
asked her if she knew what a microwave was, and "do you have VCRs in the UK?"
--
Hywel Never knowingly understood WSWIP http://hyweljenkins.co.uk/ MicroFAQ
http://hyweljenkins.co.uk/mfaq.php
May 6th 2002, 9:50 am
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Re: Are Americans especially thick?
On Mon, 6 May 2002 21:44:02 +0100, "vince" <don`[email protected]`t.read.it> wrote:
>I have been astonished by some of the threads on r.t.e lately.
>
>Is there drinking water in Europe? Can you buy batteries in Europe?
Be fair. The question wasn't whether one could buy batteries in Europe but whether
European batteries followed the same size system, e.g., AA, AAA, C, D, etc. Would you
have thought him thick had the question been about shoe sizes?
>Here`s my question. Should educational standards in American schools, particularly
>in relation to the world which exists outside the U.S. border, be raised to the
>standard which exists in the rest of the world?
As someone else mentioned, you should see the incredibly stupid questions
Europeans sometimes ask about the USA in rec.travel.usa-canada. I'll bet even you
have some misconceptions about the USA. And I'd love to see the syllabus for what
you studied about the USA. Did you take an actual course about North American
history and customs?
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>I have been astonished by some of the threads on r.t.e lately.
>
>Is there drinking water in Europe? Can you buy batteries in Europe?
Be fair. The question wasn't whether one could buy batteries in Europe but whether
European batteries followed the same size system, e.g., AA, AAA, C, D, etc. Would you
have thought him thick had the question been about shoe sizes?
>Here`s my question. Should educational standards in American schools, particularly
>in relation to the world which exists outside the U.S. border, be raised to the
>standard which exists in the rest of the world?
As someone else mentioned, you should see the incredibly stupid questions
Europeans sometimes ask about the USA in rec.travel.usa-canada. I'll bet even you
have some misconceptions about the USA. And I'd love to see the syllabus for what
you studied about the USA. Did you take an actual course about North American
history and customs?
******* DAVE HATUNEN ([email protected]) *******
* Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * ******* My typos are
intentional copyright traps ******
May 6th 2002, 9:50 am
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Re: Are Americans especially thick?
"Go Fig" <[email protected]> wrote
>
> Spend much time on rec.travel.usa-canada ?
No, none at all. We don`t have computers in Europe.
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Regards, Vince Truck Driving In Russia- www.coventon.co.uk
>
> Spend much time on rec.travel.usa-canada ?
No, none at all. We don`t have computers in Europe.
--
Regards, Vince Truck Driving In Russia- www.coventon.co.uk
May 6th 2002, 9:50 am
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Re: Are Americans especially thick?
On Mon, 6 May 2002 22:14:34 +0100, "vince" <don`[email protected]`t.read.it> wrote:
>
>
>"Go Fig" <[email protected]> wrote
>>
>> Spend much time on rec.travel.usa-canada ?
>
>No, none at all. We don`t have computers in Europe.
I guess not. Here's an entire post to r.t.usa-canada from someone in the UK asking
about Florida:
help, I need advice on going summer 2003
******* DAVE HATUNEN ([email protected]) *******
* Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * ******* My typos are
intentional copyright traps ******
>
>
>"Go Fig" <[email protected]> wrote
>>
>> Spend much time on rec.travel.usa-canada ?
>
>No, none at all. We don`t have computers in Europe.
I guess not. Here's an entire post to r.t.usa-canada from someone in the UK asking
about Florida:
help, I need advice on going summer 2003
******* DAVE HATUNEN ([email protected]) *******
* Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * ******* My typos are
intentional copyright traps ******
May 6th 2002, 10:20 am
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Re: Are Americans especially thick?
"Hatunen" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 6 May 2002 21:44:02 +0100, "vince" <don`[email protected]`t.read.it> wrote:
>
> As someone else mentioned, you should see the incredibly stupid questions Europeans
> sometimes ask about the USA in rec.travel.usa-canada. I'll bet even you have some
> misconceptions about the USA. And I'd love to see the syllabus for what you studied
> about the USA. Did you take an actual course about North American history and
> customs?
>
It'll have been the standard UK text - happy colony, evil terrorists revolted,
murdered both UK peacekeepers and indigenous population, had major civil war re
slavery, finally abolished race laws in 1960s. Now populated by lunatics living in
pick up trucks in the mountains and people in cities doing 24/7 drive bys. (which
would be really funny if that last bit wasn't straight off FOXNews...) (big big
smilie, just in case you wondered)
news:[email protected]...
> On Mon, 6 May 2002 21:44:02 +0100, "vince" <don`[email protected]`t.read.it> wrote:
>
> As someone else mentioned, you should see the incredibly stupid questions Europeans
> sometimes ask about the USA in rec.travel.usa-canada. I'll bet even you have some
> misconceptions about the USA. And I'd love to see the syllabus for what you studied
> about the USA. Did you take an actual course about North American history and
> customs?
>
It'll have been the standard UK text - happy colony, evil terrorists revolted,
murdered both UK peacekeepers and indigenous population, had major civil war re
slavery, finally abolished race laws in 1960s. Now populated by lunatics living in
pick up trucks in the mountains and people in cities doing 24/7 drive bys. (which
would be really funny if that last bit wasn't straight off FOXNews...) (big big
smilie, just in case you wondered)
May 6th 2002, 10:20 am
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Re: Are Americans especially thick?
On Mon, 06 May 2002 20:58:47 GMT, Go Fig <[email protected]> wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> "vince" <don`[email protected]`t.read.it> wrote:
>
>> I have been astonished by some of the threads on r.t.e lately.
>>
>> Is there drinking water in Europe? Can you buy batteries in Europe? Can you buy
>> petrol in Europe? Is it safe to go to Europe if you are Jewish?
>>
>> Here`s my question. Should educational standards in American schools, particularly
>> in relation to the world which exists outside the U.S. border, be raised to the
>> standard which exists in the rest of the world?
>
>Are you so 'thick' as to accept this sample of posts as a random and representative
>sampling of U.S. tourists?
>
>Spend much time on rec.travel.usa-canada ? What conclusions do you draw from
>that group ?
Good response. For that matter, I've met plenty of Europeans with similar ignorance
about the US. (So, you live in Buffalo? Can you see the statue of liberty? Etc...) If
you don't want to help people out, maybe this isn't the group for you...
A truly cool book: The World Is Already Yours Conscious living in the real world
www.alreadyyours.com (sample chapter, etc...)
> In article <[email protected]>,
> "vince" <don`[email protected]`t.read.it> wrote:
>
>> I have been astonished by some of the threads on r.t.e lately.
>>
>> Is there drinking water in Europe? Can you buy batteries in Europe? Can you buy
>> petrol in Europe? Is it safe to go to Europe if you are Jewish?
>>
>> Here`s my question. Should educational standards in American schools, particularly
>> in relation to the world which exists outside the U.S. border, be raised to the
>> standard which exists in the rest of the world?
>
>Are you so 'thick' as to accept this sample of posts as a random and representative
>sampling of U.S. tourists?
>
>Spend much time on rec.travel.usa-canada ? What conclusions do you draw from
>that group ?
Good response. For that matter, I've met plenty of Europeans with similar ignorance
about the US. (So, you live in Buffalo? Can you see the statue of liberty? Etc...) If
you don't want to help people out, maybe this isn't the group for you...
A truly cool book: The World Is Already Yours Conscious living in the real world
www.alreadyyours.com (sample chapter, etc...)
May 6th 2002, 10:50 am
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Re: Are Americans especially thick?
In article <[email protected]>, "vince"
<don`[email protected]`t.read.it> wrote:
> I have been astonished by some of the threads on r.t.e lately.
>
> Is there drinking water in Europe? Can you buy batteries in Europe? Can you buy
> petrol in Europe? Is it safe to go to Europe if you are Jewish?
Any Jew watching the uptick of anti-semitism in France and elsewhere is an idiot if
they aren't concerned [the continent that killed its Jews and is STILL anti-semitic]
And why would a novice traveler know that batteries are standard in the US and
Europe. The power supplies and electrical appliances are not. VCR tapes are not. Why
would someone who doesn't know guess that batteries were the same?
And drinking water is always a concern for any sensible traveler. There was a time
when European drinking water was not generally safe [long ago to be sure] -- still
wouldn't want to drink it in Leningrad, would you? And since bottled water is more of
a custom in Europe than the US, it suggests to many American travelers that maybe the
local water is not that great to drink.
>
> Here`s my question. Should educational standards in American schools, particularly
> in relation to the world which exists outside the U.S. border, be raised to the
> standard which exists in the rest of the world?
I imagine American kids know as much about Europe as Europeans do about the US and
pretty much the same way, through movies and distorted news stories. I found the
views that European teens had of America to be fairly hillarious when I lived there
myself in the 60s.
<don`[email protected]`t.read.it> wrote:
> I have been astonished by some of the threads on r.t.e lately.
>
> Is there drinking water in Europe? Can you buy batteries in Europe? Can you buy
> petrol in Europe? Is it safe to go to Europe if you are Jewish?
Any Jew watching the uptick of anti-semitism in France and elsewhere is an idiot if
they aren't concerned [the continent that killed its Jews and is STILL anti-semitic]
And why would a novice traveler know that batteries are standard in the US and
Europe. The power supplies and electrical appliances are not. VCR tapes are not. Why
would someone who doesn't know guess that batteries were the same?
And drinking water is always a concern for any sensible traveler. There was a time
when European drinking water was not generally safe [long ago to be sure] -- still
wouldn't want to drink it in Leningrad, would you? And since bottled water is more of
a custom in Europe than the US, it suggests to many American travelers that maybe the
local water is not that great to drink.
>
> Here`s my question. Should educational standards in American schools, particularly
> in relation to the world which exists outside the U.S. border, be raised to the
> standard which exists in the rest of the world?
I imagine American kids know as much about Europe as Europeans do about the US and
pretty much the same way, through movies and distorted news stories. I found the
views that European teens had of America to be fairly hillarious when I lived there
myself in the 60s.
May 6th 2002, 10:50 am
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Hello. I'm an American, and I'm especially thick. I live in Europe, and I arrived
here thinking that my U.S. plugs would fit into European sockets. I thought my
electronics would work on European electricity. I thought my television would work on
European broadcasts. I thought my VCR would play European tapes. I thought my DVD
player would play European DVDs. I thought your blank paper would fit inside my
printer tray.
...all right, to tell the truth, I didn't think any of these things. (Okay, well,
maybe the printer paper.) But it seems like an ordinary question for someone to
wonder whether Europeans use the same size batteries as North Americans -- and you
would have to be an especially thick European to think that this couldn't be an
honest, educated question to ask (particularly in
a...travel newsgroup, of all places!). I mean, why would you want to make people feel
unwelcome here, or at the very least ashamed to ask honest questions? Don't
Europeans understand the purpose of these type of newsgroups?
I mean, you Europeans still can't sort out whether to let Jews live in France without
getting their synogogues bombed. (Oh, wait -- wasn't that another thick question...?)
...apologies to my European friends here -- please choose appeasement over armed
conflict when flaming me, thanks!
Regards,
Ash
"vince" <don`[email protected]`t.read.it> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I have been astonished by some of the threads on r.t.e lately.
>
> Is there drinking water in Europe? Can you buy batteries in Europe? Can
you
> buy petrol in Europe? Is it safe to go to Europe if you are Jewish?
>
> Here`s my question. Should educational standards in American schools, particularly
> in relation to the world which exists outside the U.S.
border,
> be raised to the standard which exists in the rest of the world?
>
> --
> Regards, Vince Truck Driving In Russia- www.coventon.co.uk
here thinking that my U.S. plugs would fit into European sockets. I thought my
electronics would work on European electricity. I thought my television would work on
European broadcasts. I thought my VCR would play European tapes. I thought my DVD
player would play European DVDs. I thought your blank paper would fit inside my
printer tray.
...all right, to tell the truth, I didn't think any of these things. (Okay, well,
maybe the printer paper.) But it seems like an ordinary question for someone to
wonder whether Europeans use the same size batteries as North Americans -- and you
would have to be an especially thick European to think that this couldn't be an
honest, educated question to ask (particularly in
a...travel newsgroup, of all places!). I mean, why would you want to make people feel
unwelcome here, or at the very least ashamed to ask honest questions? Don't
Europeans understand the purpose of these type of newsgroups?
I mean, you Europeans still can't sort out whether to let Jews live in France without
getting their synogogues bombed. (Oh, wait -- wasn't that another thick question...?)
...apologies to my European friends here -- please choose appeasement over armed
conflict when flaming me, thanks!
Regards,
Ash
"vince" <don`[email protected]`t.read.it> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I have been astonished by some of the threads on r.t.e lately.
>
> Is there drinking water in Europe? Can you buy batteries in Europe? Can
you
> buy petrol in Europe? Is it safe to go to Europe if you are Jewish?
>
> Here`s my question. Should educational standards in American schools, particularly
> in relation to the world which exists outside the U.S.
border,
> be raised to the standard which exists in the rest of the world?
>
> --
> Regards, Vince Truck Driving In Russia- www.coventon.co.uk
May 6th 2002, 11:20 am
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Re: Are Americans especially thick?
vince wrote:
>
> I have been astonished by some of the threads on r.t.e lately.
>
> Is there drinking water in Europe? Can you buy batteries in Europe? Can you buy
> petrol in Europe? Is it safe to go to Europe if you are Jewish?
>
> Here`s my question. Should educational standards in American schools, particularly
> in relation to the world which exists outside the U.S. border, be raised to the
> standard which exists in the rest of the world?
>
> --
> Regards, Vince Truck Driving In Russia- www.coventon.co.uk
The question was about the size of the batteries, not the existence. Should the
educational standards in British schools, particularly in relation to reading and
comprehension, be raised to the standard that exists in the outside world?
Since the British insist on having their own electrical plug standards, and have
likewise refused to standardize everything from their currency to which side of the
road they drive on, it's quite understandable for Americans to check in advance. It
would be entirely in character for the British to use Sterling or Imperial or some
other set of battery sizes, and of course it is widely known that toothbrushes and
safe beef are unknown in Britain.
You still use some inbred family of Germans for your heads of state (although that
name change fooled all but the few literates), post speed limits and distances on
your highways in two different units, and all your men wear skirts. It's always best
to ask. Are there any British trolls?
>
> I have been astonished by some of the threads on r.t.e lately.
>
> Is there drinking water in Europe? Can you buy batteries in Europe? Can you buy
> petrol in Europe? Is it safe to go to Europe if you are Jewish?
>
> Here`s my question. Should educational standards in American schools, particularly
> in relation to the world which exists outside the U.S. border, be raised to the
> standard which exists in the rest of the world?
>
> --
> Regards, Vince Truck Driving In Russia- www.coventon.co.uk
The question was about the size of the batteries, not the existence. Should the
educational standards in British schools, particularly in relation to reading and
comprehension, be raised to the standard that exists in the outside world?
Since the British insist on having their own electrical plug standards, and have
likewise refused to standardize everything from their currency to which side of the
road they drive on, it's quite understandable for Americans to check in advance. It
would be entirely in character for the British to use Sterling or Imperial or some
other set of battery sizes, and of course it is widely known that toothbrushes and
safe beef are unknown in Britain.
You still use some inbred family of Germans for your heads of state (although that
name change fooled all but the few literates), post speed limits and distances on
your highways in two different units, and all your men wear skirts. It's always best
to ask. Are there any British trolls?
May 6th 2002, 11:20 am
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Re: Are Americans especially thick?
In article <[email protected]>, "Ash & Jaff" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello. I'm an American, and I'm especially thick. I live in Europe, and I arrived
> here thinking that my U.S. plugs would fit into European sockets. I thought my
> electronics would work on European electricity. I thought my television would work
> on European broadcasts. I thought my VCR would play European tapes. I thought my
> DVD player would play European DVDs. I thought your blank paper would fit inside my
> printer tray.
>
> ...all right, to tell the truth, I didn't think any of these things. (Okay, well,
> maybe the printer paper.) But it seems like an ordinary question for someone to
> wonder whether Europeans use the same size batteries as North Americans -- and you
> would have to be an especially thick European to think that this couldn't be an
> honest, educated question to ask (particularly in
> a...travel newsgroup, of all places!). I mean, why would you want to make people
> feel unwelcome here, or at the very least ashamed to ask honest questions? Don't
> Europeans understand the purpose of these type of newsgroups?
>
> I mean, you Europeans still can't sort out whether to let Jews live in France
> without getting their synogogues bombed. (Oh, wait -- wasn't that another thick
> question...?)
>
> ...apologies to my European friends here -- please choose appeasement over armed
> conflict when flaming me, thanks!
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Ash
In fact it may be a sign of intelligence to know just what simple question to ask;
I remember asking that material for a seminar I was giving be '3 hole punched' for
insertion into notebooks. Luckily they didn't do what I said but 5 hole punched
them and on a different size paper to fit the actual notebooks commonly used in
their country. I learned from that, that one is a fool to take any simple thing
for granted.
>
>
>
> "vince" <don`[email protected]`t.read.it> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > I have been astonished by some of the threads on r.t.e lately.
> >
> > Is there drinking water in Europe? Can you buy batteries in Europe? Can
> you
> > buy petrol in Europe? Is it safe to go to Europe if you are Jewish?
> >
> > Here`s my question. Should educational standards in American schools,
> > particularly in relation to the world which exists outside the U.S.
> border,
> > be raised to the standard which exists in the rest of the world?
> >
> > --
> > Regards, Vince Truck Driving In Russia- www.coventon.co.uk
> >
> Hello. I'm an American, and I'm especially thick. I live in Europe, and I arrived
> here thinking that my U.S. plugs would fit into European sockets. I thought my
> electronics would work on European electricity. I thought my television would work
> on European broadcasts. I thought my VCR would play European tapes. I thought my
> DVD player would play European DVDs. I thought your blank paper would fit inside my
> printer tray.
>
> ...all right, to tell the truth, I didn't think any of these things. (Okay, well,
> maybe the printer paper.) But it seems like an ordinary question for someone to
> wonder whether Europeans use the same size batteries as North Americans -- and you
> would have to be an especially thick European to think that this couldn't be an
> honest, educated question to ask (particularly in
> a...travel newsgroup, of all places!). I mean, why would you want to make people
> feel unwelcome here, or at the very least ashamed to ask honest questions? Don't
> Europeans understand the purpose of these type of newsgroups?
>
> I mean, you Europeans still can't sort out whether to let Jews live in France
> without getting their synogogues bombed. (Oh, wait -- wasn't that another thick
> question...?)
>
> ...apologies to my European friends here -- please choose appeasement over armed
> conflict when flaming me, thanks!
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Ash
In fact it may be a sign of intelligence to know just what simple question to ask;
I remember asking that material for a seminar I was giving be '3 hole punched' for
insertion into notebooks. Luckily they didn't do what I said but 5 hole punched
them and on a different size paper to fit the actual notebooks commonly used in
their country. I learned from that, that one is a fool to take any simple thing
for granted.
>
>
>
> "vince" <don`[email protected]`t.read.it> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > I have been astonished by some of the threads on r.t.e lately.
> >
> > Is there drinking water in Europe? Can you buy batteries in Europe? Can
> you
> > buy petrol in Europe? Is it safe to go to Europe if you are Jewish?
> >
> > Here`s my question. Should educational standards in American schools,
> > particularly in relation to the world which exists outside the U.S.
> border,
> > be raised to the standard which exists in the rest of the world?
> >
> > --
> > Regards, Vince Truck Driving In Russia- www.coventon.co.uk
> >
May 6th 2002, 11:50 am
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Re: Are Americans especially thick?
vince wrote:
> I have been astonished by some of the threads on r.t.e lately.
>
> Is there drinking water in Europe?
Hatunen said:
> As someone else mentioned, you should see the incredibly stupid questions Europeans
> sometimes ask about the USA in rec.travel.usa-canada.
Including a recent query about water that's safe to drink.
> Here`s my question. Should educational standards in American schools, particularly
> in relation to the world which exists outside the U.S. border, be raised to the
> standard which exists in the rest of the world?
Yes, as it's admittedly higher than here but what makes you think it's adequate?
First attention should be to within "the U.S. border" as the ignorance about the West
in the East is incredible although I presume people in the East would say the same
about us in the West. One of my favorite pastimes while dining on The Road is asking
"how far do you think it is from" one place to another. If they answer in distance,
they usually do OK within a hundred miles of their home but, the away farther one
gets, the more wrong the answers. One night in Copenhagen, an Egyptian insisted that
he was much farther from home than anyone else in the room knowing I'm a San
Franciscan. He refused to grasp the concept of the distance from Copenhagen to San
Francisco being more than twice that to Cairo.
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> I have been astonished by some of the threads on r.t.e lately.
>
> Is there drinking water in Europe?
Hatunen said:
> As someone else mentioned, you should see the incredibly stupid questions Europeans
> sometimes ask about the USA in rec.travel.usa-canada.
Including a recent query about water that's safe to drink.
> Here`s my question. Should educational standards in American schools, particularly
> in relation to the world which exists outside the U.S. border, be raised to the
> standard which exists in the rest of the world?
Yes, as it's admittedly higher than here but what makes you think it's adequate?
First attention should be to within "the U.S. border" as the ignorance about the West
in the East is incredible although I presume people in the East would say the same
about us in the West. One of my favorite pastimes while dining on The Road is asking
"how far do you think it is from" one place to another. If they answer in distance,
they usually do OK within a hundred miles of their home but, the away farther one
gets, the more wrong the answers. One night in Copenhagen, an Egyptian insisted that
he was much farther from home than anyone else in the room knowing I'm a San
Franciscan. He refused to grasp the concept of the distance from Copenhagen to San
Francisco being more than twice that to Cairo.
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May 6th 2002, 12:50 pm
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Re: Are Americans especially thick?
Please point me to an american who buys "petrol".
Maybe russian truck drivers are thick.
"vince" <don`[email protected]`t.read.it> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I have been astonished by some of the threads on r.t.e lately.
>
> Is there drinking water in Europe? Can you buy batteries in Europe? Can
you
> buy petrol in Europe? Is it safe to go to Europe if you are Jewish?
>
> Here`s my question. Should educational standards in American schools, particularly
> in relation to the world which exists outside the U.S.
border,
> be raised to the standard which exists in the rest of the world?
>
> --
> Regards, Vince Truck Driving In Russia- www.coventon.co.uk
Maybe russian truck drivers are thick.
"vince" <don`[email protected]`t.read.it> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I have been astonished by some of the threads on r.t.e lately.
>
> Is there drinking water in Europe? Can you buy batteries in Europe? Can
you
> buy petrol in Europe? Is it safe to go to Europe if you are Jewish?
>
> Here`s my question. Should educational standards in American schools, particularly
> in relation to the world which exists outside the U.S.
border,
> be raised to the standard which exists in the rest of the world?
>
> --
> Regards, Vince Truck Driving In Russia- www.coventon.co.uk
May 6th 2002, 12:50 pm
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Re: Are Americans especially thick?
In article <[email protected]>,
"vince" <don`[email protected]`t.read.it> wrote:
> "Go Fig" <[email protected]> wrote
> >
> > Spend much time on rec.travel.usa-canada ?
>
> No, none at all. We don`t have computers in Europe.
>
Despite no leg to stand on... surely you can do better than this ??
Perhaps more creative 'quoting' ?
jay Mon, May 6, 2002 mailto:[email protected]
> --
> Regards, Vince Truck Driving In Russia- www.coventon.co.uk
>
>
>
--
Legend insists that as he finished his abject... Galileo muttered under his breath:
"Nevertheless, it does move."
"vince" <don`[email protected]`t.read.it> wrote:
> "Go Fig" <[email protected]> wrote
> >
> > Spend much time on rec.travel.usa-canada ?
>
> No, none at all. We don`t have computers in Europe.
>
Despite no leg to stand on... surely you can do better than this ??
Perhaps more creative 'quoting' ?
jay Mon, May 6, 2002 mailto:[email protected]
> --
> Regards, Vince Truck Driving In Russia- www.coventon.co.uk
>
>
>
--
Legend insists that as he finished his abject... Galileo muttered under his breath:
"Nevertheless, it does move."
