Things you like about the Yanks

[Cheeky Monkey]

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The women are mighty fine. Yee haw!!

And to keep things balanced, some US eye candy for us gals and poofs...

 

[Blazing Apostle]

Green Bay Packers
Diet coke
Tori Amos
P51 Mustang - Cadillac of the skies........
Star Wars films

 

[Badger]

MLB.

As long as the Canadian team wins

Not really happening this season

 

[Jim Van Winkle]

My wife and daughter -- both Seagulls converts too.

 

[pearl]

Yes she settled on a farm in Kent with her younger daughter whilst my mother married at 18 to my dad in Brighton. Grandmother visited us in Hove with my auntie every summer until she was too unwell to.

One story that touches my heart is that my auntie picked up grandma on the fact she was reading the paper upside down. She admitted she was blind and had been for years negotiating country lanes for five miles to collect her pension.

I guess the nature of the Native American spirit came through. She shrunk to 4'5" and she was short to start with and looked native and sounded very American to her dying day.

OMG, that's .... actually, words fail me. thanks for sharing

 

[Mackenzie]

Kentucky Fried Chicken

 

[Pavilionaire]

This one often crops up and I always wonder why. It seems to have acquired mythic status as the reality is very, very different. I would say the US is by some distance the worst country for customer service that I've been to.

You go into a shop and within seconds you have some gurning eejit wishing you a nice day and asking what you want. If you ask for something and they haven't got it, they don't tell you a shop that may have it (as would happen in the UK) but try to sell you something else. If you're having a meal, you get interrupted every three minutes as to whether you want something else.

I've worked for several US companies and have to make many trips over the pond for business meetings but no matter what city I go to, I always get wound up by the poor customer experience.

I can only assume that the people who say 'good customer experience' are people who have never been to the States.

I've been to the States three times and have been impressed every time, and I'd much rather have an over-attentive waiter than wait in vain for service that never comes.

 

[patcham lad]

the yank's - they saved both britain & australia in world war 2 - fact - get over it!

 

[whitelion]

OMG, that's .... actually, words fail me. thanks for sharing

I'm very proud if my Native American heritage (25%) and there's a book that has been inherited into our family chronicling it which unfortunately is with one of my sisters whom I haven't had contact with for years. I'd really like to read this before my time's up.

 

[The Spanish]

Right turn on red (already mentioned)
getting your change in notes and not loads of massive heavy coins that fill your pockets so your trousers are falling down
sensible returns policies
wonderful property sale and purchase system that makes ours look positively feudal
really serious about sensible driving in school zones
ice is not treated like it has been hand carved and carried from antarctica to the bar

 

[Pavilionaire]

The flipside of that being no relegation. Which means once the Playoffs are out of reach, its almost in a teams interest to be as terrible as possible so that they finish rock bottom, and can have 1st pick in the Draft (yes, I'm looking at YOU, Minnesota Twins). It can also lead to a looong season of dead rubbers. Not this year thankfully, as the ALC is so weak that even the Twins are having a run at it this year.

In many ways the draft replaces relegation as a source of renewal, but it is far more effective way of maintaining competition. In the last 10 baseball World series there have been 13 different teams and 7 different winners, including at least two from 5 of the 6 divisions. In the last 10 Superbowls there have been 14 different teams and 8 different winners.

Contrast that with "the most exciting league in the world" that for the last 22 years (Leicester apart) has been a carve up between perennial Champions League qualifiers Man Utd, City, Chelsea and Arsenal.

 

[vegster]

I love the way they steadfastly hang on to their beliefs that people kill people, not guns. Having a heavily weaponised society has prevented countless murderers running amok with a spoon or a screwdriver.

 

[pearl]

I'm very proud if my Native American heritage (25%) and there's a book that has been inherited into our family chronicling it which unfortunately is with one of my sisters whom I haven't had contact with for years. I'd really like to read this before my time's up.

yeah, you're right to be proud, so would I be. If it's a published book maybe you could track down a copy? When I was at school there was a monk who was part NA, he had a really sweet nature (and played guitar)

 

[whitelion]

yeah, you're right to be proud, so would I be. If it's a published book maybe you could track down a copy? When I was at school there was a monk who was part NA, he had a really sweet nature (and played guitar)

I'll have to do some more research but I'm led to believe it was a book written especially for the family rather than general publication so unsure of how many copies are in existence.

The monk sounds a good guy.

 

[Bob!]

Friday night, Saturday morning is my all-time favourite Specials tune. Good call.

Same!

This ska band was better than early No Doubt imo.

I discovered a French Ska band from the nineties last week Whilst on holiday in Crete !!!

Zebda
the track was 'Tomber la Chemise'

 

[Honky Tonx]

Steel Panther ( especially Lexxy Foxx ), Yank women are usually quite easy and like it up the back door, President Trump, Charles Manson, the death penalty, American porn

 

[JC Footy Genius]

I like the way they stand as ultimate guarantors of our safety and freedom meaning we and numerous other western nations can underfund our defences while constantly criticising the US.

 

[Barrow Boy]

This

https://youtu.be/vg2O5SlZ25g

 

[pearl]

I'll have to do some more research but I'm led to believe it was a book written especially for the family rather than general publication so unsure of how many copies are in existence.

The monk sounds a good guy.

You could try the Library of Congress in the US, they may be able to help. Do you know what tribe (if that's the right term) your grandmother was?

 

[Badger]

Right turn on red (already mentioned)

Having lived in Toronto for 2 years, where they have the same rule, I have to disagree. It's good if you're a driver and want to avoid waiting for the lights to change BUT for a pedestrian in a busy city it's a pain. Whenever you cross the street at least one of the following happens:

- Just as the crossing sign comes on a driver decides they'll turn right in front of you before you start crossing
- You'll be almost halfway across the street and a car will turn just before you get in their way
- A car will be inching towards you trying to hurry you across the street.

Drives me mad.