Favorite Thing(S) About America

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  1. Irminsul

    Irminsul Valkyrie

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    and pretty much the german science/space programme in its entirety. ;)
     
  2. machinist

    machinist Banned Lifetime Supporter

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    Germany established their space program the year the USA landed on the moon. Werner von Braun was a captured nazi :rolleyes:
     
  3. Ged

    Ged Tits and Thigh Man.

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    "Up there a flag will fly...For Mom and Apple pie."
     
  4. Irminsul

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    Yes I know, that's exactly why I said what I did. o_O
    It's our space programme, not yours. Operation paperclip.
     
  5. machinist

    machinist Banned Lifetime Supporter

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    the usa is the only country thats put men on the moon.

    The usa built the sr71 blackbird that still holds multiple records including top speed despite being out of service for many years.

    If the usa got everything from germany then i have to wonder why the usa has done so much more than.
     
  6. Irminsul

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    Because you've got all of our scientists. You pretty much already justified my own statement with your one about von whats his face.
     
  7. Aerianne

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    My family lives here.
     
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  8. Lady Shadow

    Lady Shadow Loser, Ex-Drunk, Aspiring Author, Eloquent Deviant

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    I happen to agree with this a lot. I love the Boston Lagers, Blue Moon, Sam Adams etc, and some of the wonderful wineries as well. Love the scenes in America, did cross country from New York to California in my early 20's and really enjoyed the scenery.
     
  9. themnax

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    i would have to know from personal experience and my own perceptions about any place else to really have any sort of basis on which to answer that.
    and i don't.
    certainly i have lived in places i liked the appearance of.
    but i have complete confidence that there are as many and more such places in many other countries and parts of the world.

    i suspect there's about 30% of places i'd personally be happier,
    and 60% i'd be less so,
    but again, i really have no way of knowing that,
    and no way to afford to find with any certainty out.
    nor even which might be which.

    basically i don't trust most of what i'm told,
    so it would be pointless to keep doing so.

    there are a lot of different things that are mostly ok.
    and i'm sure every place has its own combinations
    of things i'd like more and less.

    i know what i would like more, and what i would like less,
    and words that paint with broad brush strokes,
    really tell me almost absolutely nothing.

    i can tell you what things i care about,
    and that america dissapoints nearly all of them to some and varying degree.

    but how much and which of them which places would less,
    again this gets back to i have no way of knowing.

    there's really nothing america accells at,
    i'm sorry, that stands out in my mind as being
    uniquely or unusually wonderful,
    among what little i can honestly imagine myself to actually know
    about other places.
     
  10. shoeless joe

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    Baseball of course!
     
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  11. SpacemanSpiff

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    california girls
     
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  12. Ged

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    Porn actresses.
     
  13. The Walking Dickhead

    The Walking Dickhead orbiter of helion

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    Opium money
     
  14. NoHobo

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    Your mom.

    But sometimes, when I feel devious, your dad.
     
  15. machinist

    machinist Banned Lifetime Supporter

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    The internet
     
  16. StellarCoon

    StellarCoon Dr. Professor

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    Variety of foods from different cultures, different communities from around the world. Feels like several smaller countries sewn into one.
     
  17. The Walking Dickhead

    The Walking Dickhead orbiter of helion

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    And that's just one half of a subway
     
  18. machinist

    machinist Banned Lifetime Supporter

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    Electric guitar


    Mountain biking
     
  19. The Walking Dickhead

    The Walking Dickhead orbiter of helion

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    Bush fires
     
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  20. Meliai

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    Yes i like this a lot.
     
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