What was the biggest culture shock when you moved to the USA?
Dec 20th 2016, 10:53 pm
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Dec 20th 2016, 11:20 pm
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Re: What was the biggest culture shock when you moved to the USA?
The clothes closets in our new home are the same size as two of the bedrooms in our old house and one of the bathrooms has a bidet which the previous owner had installed.
My wife asked "What on earth is that" ?
I told her it was a foot bath
My wife asked "What on earth is that" ?
I told her it was a foot bath
Dec 21st 2016, 4:15 am
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Re: What was the biggest culture shock when you moved to the USA?
Which is plain stupid because this is not the early 18th century and people these days are not going to rise up en masse against the government,
The whole idea of allowing citizenry to bear arms was to have a ready made army available in case of invasion..
If the Founding Fathers could have seen what the "right to bear arms" has become they would I think have torn up the Second Amendment and flushed it down the pot.
The whole idea of allowing citizenry to bear arms was to have a ready made army available in case of invasion..
If the Founding Fathers could have seen what the "right to bear arms" has become they would I think have torn up the Second Amendment and flushed it down the pot.
Dec 21st 2016, 7:41 am
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Re: What was the biggest culture shock when you moved to the USA?
The Founders didn't want a standing army, they wanted state militia's. How do you have state militias with a disarmed populace? As for the mass shootings this is the source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra
Dec 21st 2016, 9:37 am
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Re: What was the biggest culture shock when you moved to the USA?
Laws must change, not just opinions.
Dec 21st 2016, 10:28 am
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Dec 21st 2016, 12:16 pm
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Re: What was the biggest culture shock when you moved to the USA?
The Founders didn't want a standing army, they wanted state militia's. How do you have state militias with a disarmed populace? As for the mass shootings this is the source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra
The govt they are so afraid of is a bunch of pudgy white guys in DC who couldn't fight their way out of a wet paper bag. Now if it's the US military they expect to fight, then good luck.
Dec 21st 2016, 5:37 pm
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Re: What was the biggest culture shock when you moved to the USA?
I wasn't talking about present day militias.
Dec 21st 2016, 5:58 pm
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Re: What was the biggest culture shock when you moved to the USA?
if only people were as willing to spend as much money on healthcare as the do on arms, it would be a different world
Dec 22nd 2016, 12:13 am
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Re: What was the biggest culture shock when you moved to the USA?
Another culture shock (although I don't know if it is just my Mrs and her family!) is that a kettle isn't used to boil water.
She boils water in a pan and waits a good 10 minutes rather than using the electric kettle that I bought her a few years ago.
Cannot for the life of me understand why.
She boils water in a pan and waits a good 10 minutes rather than using the electric kettle that I bought her a few years ago.
Cannot for the life of me understand why.
Dec 22nd 2016, 12:17 am
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Re: What was the biggest culture shock when you moved to the USA?
Another culture shock (although I don't know if it is just my Mrs and her family!) is that a kettle isn't used to boil water.
She boils water in a pan and waits a good 10 minutes rather than using the electric kettle that I bought her a few years ago.
Cannot for the life of me understand why.
She boils water in a pan and waits a good 10 minutes rather than using the electric kettle that I bought her a few years ago.
Cannot for the life of me understand why.
Dec 22nd 2016, 12:49 am
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Re: What was the biggest culture shock when you moved to the USA?
Another culture shock (although I don't know if it is just my Mrs and her family!) is that a kettle isn't used to boil water.
She boils water in a pan and waits a good 10 minutes rather than using the electric kettle that I bought her a few years ago.
Cannot for the life of me understand why.
She boils water in a pan and waits a good 10 minutes rather than using the electric kettle that I bought her a few years ago.
Cannot for the life of me understand why.
Dec 22nd 2016, 12:54 am
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Re: What was the biggest culture shock when you moved to the USA?
Although if i'm making sweet tea i'll use a pan of some variety so that I can add sugar as its coming to a boil.