Americans - the planet's most unfriendly people?

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  1. Dinner

    Dinner 2012 & 2014 Master Prognosticator

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    Would you prefer if I said you have been fired from the vast majority of the jobs you have ever held? Surely, you would not deny that you have had problems holding down a job?
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  2. Dayton Kitchens

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    That still would be an overstatement.
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  3. We Are Borg

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    And now Dinner's been drawn into the fray! Could this be a three-way race? Stay tuned.
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  4. Paladin

    Paladin Overjoyed Man of Liberty

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    I'm certainly well aware of the "Ugly American" phenomenon. I've tried my best when travelling to avoid projecting this image; in truth, I've probably failed on a few occasions.

    But I hope people would give me the same understanding that I extend to them.
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  5. Dinner

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    You definitely have problems in that department. Someone who is as intelligent as you claim to be would figure out how to do a job well so he isn't repeatedly fired for incompetence.

    Your failure to examine or even acknowledge this reoccurring problem in your professional life says more about you than anything else.
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  6. The Original Faceman

    The Original Faceman Lasagna Artist

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    Ugh. That went right over your head didn't it...

    I'm beginning to think Dayton may be a little bit right about you.
  7. El Chup

    El Chup Fuck Trump Deceased Member Git

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    Maybe you can explain the added meaning in "fuck off. cunt" for my stupid mind...
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    El Chup Fuck Trump Deceased Member Git

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    Yeah, that's not really what I was getting at, but ok.
  9. El Chup

    El Chup Fuck Trump Deceased Member Git

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    But obviously not an untruth....
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  10. The Original Faceman

    The Original Faceman Lasagna Artist

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    If you can't comprehend the satirical response I made in a thread calling Americans rude then I can't help you. Maybe autism is contagious.
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  11. Dinner

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    It is amazing how a guy would said as long as he 51% thinks something is true that it is ok for him to pretend it is an absolute truth has such problems with other people paraphrasing even though the paraphrasing captures the essance of his statements.

    It is almost as if Dayton is dishonest and prefers evading and disessembling to acknowledging truths he does not like.
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  12. El Chup

    El Chup Fuck Trump Deceased Member Git

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    What, that's it? Dead oh dear.
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    I know you can't admit you're wrong due to alcoholism induced by insanity but I just want you to know that your apology is accepted and you are forgiven.
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  14. oldfella1962

    oldfella1962 the only real finish line

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    True, but Vegas and LA are "The West". Anyway I'm glad Washington D.C. made the list - I'll never visit there again. :jayzus:
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    The French will be nice to your face, but if you can't speak French, or even so much as have the slightest tinge of an
    American/British accent in your French, they'll shit, piss, cum, booger, dandruff, and period into your food.

    So, which is unfriendlier, that, or our American hot-heads?

    I honestly don't know, you tell me, folks.
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  16. Dayton Kitchens

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    I've never been to France but IIRC someone once said to me who had been in Europe extensively that Frenchman in southern France acted considerably differently than those in the northern France, Paris and its environs.

    Feel free to correct me if I'm in error.
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    What, people in different regions don't all act the same?? Surely that can't be so, especially when all Americans......er, no...Christian Americans, are all the same and all foreigners are inferior. How do you explain these disgraceful inconsistencies Teacher Kitchens?
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  18. Dayton Kitchens

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    Sorry not following.
  19. El Chup

    El Chup Fuck Trump Deceased Member Git

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    Why not? You said you were smarter than I am! :lol:
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  20. Dayton Kitchens

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    Sorry.

    Sometimes your stupidity outclasses my wisdom.
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    ed629 Morally Inept Banned

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    I've been to 12 of those, one thing they all had in common. Random, crazy as fuck homeless people.
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    ed629 Morally Inept Banned

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    That's not it, I would venture it's the 72.5% score in analytical analysis.
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  23. RickDeckard

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    I generally find Americans to be more friendly than most. At the risk of generalising, I find northern and eastern Europeans to be a little less easy to interact with.
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  24. Bickendan

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    You could get away without the "n'" in "n'est pas" but you can't omit the "pas" :nono:
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    Or was that "le pas" instead of "the pas"? :ramen:
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    Sorry, I musta pas'd out.
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  27. tafkats

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    These "The X most (adjective) cities" lists nearly always have shitty methodology, but the methodology on this one is even shittier than usual.

    It was (a) a self-selecting poll that (b) asked people to rate 262 cities, a number that even most readers of Travel + Leisure magazine probably haven't been to more than a handful of, on (c) subjective criteria, with (d) no way of even knowing if the respondents had visited the cities they were ranking or were just answering based on cultural perceptions, media representations or their own assumptions.

    In other words: Useless for anything but clickbait.
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  28. Dayton Kitchens

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    Well, Little Rock, AR has its own submarine at the Inland Maritime Museum. And just recently we got our hands on one of the tug boats that performed heroically at Pearl Harbor during the attack. Plus a presidential library/museum.
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    Yee haww!!
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  30. Dinner

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    You never do. At least not when the point is something you do not like.
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