Things that disturb you about the US
Jul 24th 2005, 2:03 pm
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Re: Things that disturb you about the US
Why oh why am I not allowed to see the final stage of the Tour de France on tv?
Jul 24th 2005, 2:12 pm
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Re: Things that disturb you about the US
14. Two weeks after Jeb Bush spent so much time and effort to stop a brain dead woman from dying he passed a law legalising murdering someone with a gun if you feel threatened
Something else that disturbs me, at the ParaOlympics do they still just have the two handicapped parking places at the front?
Something else that disturbs me, at the ParaOlympics do they still just have the two handicapped parking places at the front?
Jul 24th 2005, 2:12 pm
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Re: Things that disturb you about the US
Originally Posted by Lion in Winter
Why oh why am I not allowed to see the final stage of the Tour de France on tv?
Jul 24th 2005, 2:13 pm
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Re: Things that disturb you about the US
Originally Posted by Ray
Lean on the spin dry cycle instead ..that may help ..
Jul 24th 2005, 2:17 pm
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Re: Things that disturb you about the US
Originally Posted by Sarah
The fact that my temp job ended last week, I have $250 in my bank account, the rent is due in 8 days and is $580 and my EAD runs out on August 1st.
Jul 24th 2005, 2:18 pm
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Re: Things that disturb you about the US
It's illegal to drink and drive, yet you can buy beer at the gas station.
Cheese Whizz - that's scary
Cheese Whizz - that's scary
Jul 24th 2005, 2:19 pm
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Re: Things that disturb you about the US
Originally Posted by Patrick
14. Two weeks after Jeb Bush spent so much time and effort to stop a brain dead woman from dying he passed a law legalising murdering someone with a gun if you feel threatened
But on the 2nd of Oct ..I will feel a threat coming on from the HOA Obersturmbannfuhrer...
Jul 24th 2005, 2:31 pm
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Re: Things that disturb you about the US
Originally Posted by Pulaski
Yep, that disturbs me, and any if son of mine comes home from the maternity ward less than completely whole the hospital is going to be hearing from my lawyer! 
Aside from that what disturbs me is the everyday occurance of stupid points deaths on the road. My local paper, in a county with only a few tens of thousand of residents, seems to run the exact self-same story at least twice a week: "... the car left the road to the right, the driver over corrected and the car spun out of control into on-coming traffic". Some variations of the story have the car hitting a tree or utility pole (on one or other side of the road), or just drifting directly into on-coming traffic. Occasionally the driver of a Geo or a Civic, or simliar, pulls out of a side road in front of a truck - pick-up or 18 wheeler, the results are generally the same.
What I really want to know though is, no matter how little driver education you had, nor how easy the road test is, WHY CAN'T YOU KEEP YOUR CAR BETWEEN THE CENTER LINE AND A THE FRICKIN' VERGE?
Aside from that what disturbs me is the everyday occurance of stupid points deaths on the road. My local paper, in a county with only a few tens of thousand of residents, seems to run the exact self-same story at least twice a week: "... the car left the road to the right, the driver over corrected and the car spun out of control into on-coming traffic". Some variations of the story have the car hitting a tree or utility pole (on one or other side of the road), or just drifting directly into on-coming traffic. Occasionally the driver of a Geo or a Civic, or simliar, pulls out of a side road in front of a truck - pick-up or 18 wheeler, the results are generally the same.
What I really want to know though is, no matter how little driver education you had, nor how easy the road test is, WHY CAN'T YOU KEEP YOUR CAR BETWEEN THE CENTER LINE AND A THE FRICKIN' VERGE?
I wondered if my grandson would be done.... because his father is not.....babys mother did not have little one done in the end.....he is part Jewish so I had expected it in a way........i
Jul 24th 2005, 3:22 pm
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Re: Things that disturb you about the US
Velveeta - Blocks of Processed cheese which you microwave into goopy recipes;
http://www.kraftfoods.com/velveeta/m...brand=velveeta
Who eats this stuff?!?!
Then when you have ingested so much Velveeta and other processed and fatty food, you can buy some Metamucil fibre supplement so you can take a shit!
http://www.metamucil.com/
How about eating some fruit and cutting the Velveeta down to 2 pounds a week???
http://www.kraftfoods.com/velveeta/m...brand=velveeta
Who eats this stuff?!?!
Then when you have ingested so much Velveeta and other processed and fatty food, you can buy some Metamucil fibre supplement so you can take a shit!
http://www.metamucil.com/
How about eating some fruit and cutting the Velveeta down to 2 pounds a week???
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Jul 24th 2005, 3:23 pm
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Re: Things that disturb you about the US
You can buy a gun at Walmart, but you can't buy a bottle of Scotch.
It'd be better if they had liquor on the shelves and guns in specialised stores (like they have the liquor now - in Oklahoma anyway).
But more serious than that is- How the heck did GW Bush get back in power when everybody seems to hate his guts??
It'd be better if they had liquor on the shelves and guns in specialised stores (like they have the liquor now - in Oklahoma anyway).
But more serious than that is- How the heck did GW Bush get back in power when everybody seems to hate his guts??
Jul 24th 2005, 3:37 pm
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Re: Things that disturb you about the US
There are plenty of things that disturb me here. But then there were plenty of things that disturbed me back home in the UK.
I just do what I did there, and avoid these things.
Although American kids have to be my biggest issue. They are rude, obnoxious, hyper, arrogant and full of wanton destruction. They have no respect for material things and are spoiled by their parents.
Not all kids mind, but the ones I have met are the spawn of satan.
Sometimes, it's hard to avoid them.
I just do what I did there, and avoid these things.
Although American kids have to be my biggest issue. They are rude, obnoxious, hyper, arrogant and full of wanton destruction. They have no respect for material things and are spoiled by their parents.
Not all kids mind, but the ones I have met are the spawn of satan.
Sometimes, it's hard to avoid them.
Jul 24th 2005, 3:42 pm
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Re: Things that disturb you about the US
Originally Posted by Dimsie
You can buy a gun at Walmart, but you can't buy a bottle of Scotch.
It'd be better if they had liquor on the shelves and guns in specialised stores (like they have the liquor now - in Oklahoma anyway).
But more serious than that is- How the heck did GW Bush get back in power when everybody seems to hate his guts??
It'd be better if they had liquor on the shelves and guns in specialised stores (like they have the liquor now - in Oklahoma anyway).
But more serious than that is- How the heck did GW Bush get back in power when everybody seems to hate his guts??
Jul 24th 2005, 3:47 pm
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Re: Things that disturb you about the US
Originally Posted by rincewind
There are plenty of things that disturb me here. But then there were plenty of things that disturbed me back home in the UK.
I just do what I did there, and avoid these things.
Although American kids have to be my biggest issue. They are rude, obnoxious, hyper, arrogant and full of wanton destruction. They have no respect for material things and are spoiled by their parents.
Not all kids mind, but the ones I have met are the spawn of satan.
Sometimes, it's hard to avoid them.
I just do what I did there, and avoid these things.
Although American kids have to be my biggest issue. They are rude, obnoxious, hyper, arrogant and full of wanton destruction. They have no respect for material things and are spoiled by their parents.
Not all kids mind, but the ones I have met are the spawn of satan.
Sometimes, it's hard to avoid them.
My sons best friend comes from a very rich family...but he works in Burger King....drives an old banger.....and only asks for something from his family if it for his friends......all the boys come round to do odd jobs.....and I've had no trouble taking in homeless teenager off the streets......because they have all respected my home and what I do for them.......
Jul 24th 2005, 3:56 pm
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Re: Things that disturb you about the US
Originally Posted by krizzy
.....and I've had no trouble taking in homeless teenager off the streets......because they have all respected my home and what I do for them.......
Jul 24th 2005, 3:59 pm
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Re: Things that disturb you about the US
Originally Posted by Dimsie
You can buy a gun at Walmart, but you can't buy a bottle of Scotch.
It'd be better if they had liquor on the shelves and guns in specialised stores (like they have the liquor now - in Oklahoma anyway).
But more serious than that is- How the heck did GW Bush get back in power when everybody seems to hate his guts??
It'd be better if they had liquor on the shelves and guns in specialised stores (like they have the liquor now - in Oklahoma anyway).
But more serious than that is- How the heck did GW Bush get back in power when everybody seems to hate his guts??
it disturbs me that the president still says NUCULAR when his wife and everyone else in the country have told him its wrong
Oh and that he can make jokes about WMDs when nearly 2000 US soldiers have died and 5-7000 have been maimed (not to mention innocent iraqis)
