Friday night, Saturday morning is my all-time favourite Specials tune. Good call.
2. The value they place on good customer service.
'Wish I had lipstick on my shirt,instead of piss stains on my shoes'-love Terry Hall's lyrics.
My mother was born in Pittsburgh (sadly passed 2011) to a Kent father and Native American mother.
There's so much to like about the USA rather than as the usual redneckery guns etc.
I love the natural scenery of the place having visited ten states - standing out were the Pacific Coast route 101 from San Francisco into Mexico. The Grand Canyon, Petrified and Redwood Forests, Napa and Sonoma Valley, Lake Tahoe etc.
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.
Their big day innit, the 4th of July. Despite their thick as shit President, their obsession with race, the mangling of the English language, their weird way of writing the month before the day, Adam Sandler, their 'thing' with guns and their whooping when polite clapping would suffice, there's lots to like about them.
Music has to be a big plus: Blues, Rock n Roll, country (we gave them that), soul, funk, The Pixies, Blondie, Public Enemy, Elliott Smith, Elvis, Billie Holliday, Madonna, Dylan. That's not too shabby a list in itself.
TV gave us The Monkees, The Muppets, Breaking Bad, Family Guy, Tucker Carlson (a guilty pleasure of mine).
Films: David Lynch, Coen Brothers, Orson Welles, Star Wars, The Goonies, Francis Ford Copella, Sam Wannamaker, Bogart and Bacall.
Politics: Kennedy, Lincoln, Roosevelt (both of them), Luther King
Literature: Angelou, Bukowski, Twain, Hunter S Thomson, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Lovecraft.
They're not so bad.
Coca cola and their food are probably the only good things about yanks,
1. The way in which their professional sports are organised so that their leagues remain competitive and even the "smaller" teams have a chance if they luck out in the Player Draft.
Gosh, did you get to meet your grandmother?
American ladies unbounding enthusiasm between the sheets.
Screaming away they are, letting you know that it is just right and what to do with it and how great you are even if your not.
God bless the United States of America.
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