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Old 02-16-2012, 11:00 AM   #1
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Reasons to stay away from America

my first clone thread...please be gentle!


here is one good reason that you should think about.
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Old 02-16-2012, 11:17 AM   #2
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Too many smart asses over here.
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Old 02-16-2012, 11:22 AM   #3
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republicans.
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Old 02-16-2012, 11:45 AM   #4
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Old 02-16-2012, 12:27 PM   #5
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here is one good reason that you should think about.
Ridiculous all round, but my goodness they were naive.
You don't joke about bombs at the airport and (as it turns out) you don't make jokes on Twitter either.

Hang on.
They joked on Twitter and were picked up at the airport?
That shit is scary.

Thank goodness I don't use Twitter. So when the Cellar buys me a $3200 round trip ticket for winning the Superbowl bet I won't be held at the airport and put back on the next flight!
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Old 02-16-2012, 05:08 PM   #6
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My ex once tried to take circular saw blades in his carry on luggage on an international flight.

He called me to come pick the blades up from the airport so he could catch his plane.

When I got there, the security guards with him just rolled their eyes, to which I responded, "there's a reason he's my ex husband".

We laughed.

That doesn't have much to do with this thread except for people being dickheads in relation to airports.
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Old 02-16-2012, 05:30 PM   #7
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The Christian right. Definitely a reason to stay very far away.
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Old 02-16-2012, 05:50 PM   #8
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I might as well say Progressives, or the Extreme left, or tree hugging commie pinko bastards ...

Give real and important reasons to stay away, like ... American Idol or the Dallas Cowboys or Martha Stewart Living Magazine.
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Old 02-16-2012, 05:58 PM   #9
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Point taken, wolf.

Stay away because of strip malls, and traffic, and general bedlam.

But stay for some pie. We have good pie.
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Old 02-16-2012, 09:12 PM   #10
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which thread are you cloning, though? [edit, I found it now, sry.... but a link is helpful for us eejits....]

I don't think anyone should stay away from Ameica, but FFS be aware that it ain't no Europe......
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Old 02-16-2012, 09:58 PM   #11
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Deep fried butter.
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Old 02-16-2012, 10:02 PM   #12
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Monkey is right we do have some damn good pie, and just about anything amateur or minor legue. Baseball, softball, soccer, hockey, rec legue stuff, heck there is an over 30 hardball baseball legue in California. I'd rather see a minor legue game in the summer then a major legue game any day of the week. And we don't murder the ref if he makes a bad call, we just hekel them from the stands. They can hear you so much better at a small field. (umm, i'm supposed to be telling why NOT to come to the states, huh? oh well. ran out of reasons.)
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Old 02-16-2012, 11:32 PM   #13
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Our beer is only 6% and served cold... our bars are dark

We drive on the right side of the road.
... Look left before stepping off the curb

Anywhere is a day's drive, or more, away

Cold weather comes from the north, hot from the south
Easterners believe that once you've seen a corn field, you've seen the West

Streets in Boston have name-signs only at the beginnings and ends.
... you are expected to know the name of any street you are drive on.

In Seattle and San Francisco, you often can't get there from here.
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Old 02-16-2012, 11:35 PM   #14
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Streets in Boston have name-signs only at the beginnings and ends.
... you are expected to know the name of any street you are drive on.
not just Boston (and it pisses me off.)
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Old 02-17-2012, 02:19 AM   #15
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not just Boston (and it pisses me off.)
I don't need to come to the States for that, it's all over here.
And streets very often change their names at intersections - just when you are busy negotiating traffic.

"I'm on Shooters Hill Road, just going past the hospital."
"What? If you're going past the hospital you're on Old Kent Road! Turn around, you've gone way too far!"
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