The United States of America

[matthew]

Brought us some great things and also some not so great and very evil things.

The way their corporations go around destroying the planet and and the lives of people in smaller countries gets on my nerves.

Also stuff like Guantanamo Bay ffs.

 

[LlcoolJ]

I'm listening to Buddy Guy's latest album as I read this thread. He's taken over from BB King as the King Of The Blues.

He's amazing. Great on that Foo Fighters Sonic Highways thing too if you're not seen it.

 

[SUIYHP]

I like Americans. Very polite, most of them think Britain is great, very honest folk

Just a shame their constitution is shit. I'm allowed to say that because of the first amendment, but if I went around saying that in America, the second amendment would probably get me killed.

 

[catfish]

He's amazing. Great on that Foo Fighters Sonic Highways thing too if you're not seen it.

No I haven't but I'll check it out.

 

[5ways]

The indispensable nation in so many ways, but if you do literally nothing after an event like Sandy Hook to stop it happening again there is something deeply and perversely wrong with your country.

 

[Jim Van Winkle]

Some aspects and culture I really do love, some elements I find quite difficult and struggle to understand. Overall it's a plus though. What do you reckon?

America has been very good to me. I married a American, my step daughter is American. It is a interesting place to live.

Like you say some aspects are hard to fathom e.g politics, health care, gun control and a blind faith in God. Some days it leaves me scratching my head thinking WTF.

 

[RexCathedra]

The way their corporations go around destroying the planet and and the lives of people in smaller countries gets on my nerves.

As do Unilever, Royal Dutch Shell, UBS, Glencore, Phillips, Rio Tinto, etc. etc.

Not only do the workers have no homeland (les ouvrières n'ont pas de patrie, and all that), late-stage finance capitalism doesn't either.

 

[Raphael Meade]

As many retarded people as there are here, it was 32 degrees today in my garden as I worked on my laptop, so overall it's a YES from me.

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

Been here 7 years and still enjoying it with no intention of going back to Blighty yet. Can’t deny the issues mentioned – absurd gun culture and unjust health system. But I love the open space (still can’t beat a road trip), 24 hour air conditioned cheap subways, Americans (polite, generous and optimistic) and the Florida Keys. I enjoy going back to the UK but sometimes can’t help finding it very crowded these days.

Horses for courses I guess.

 

[Vegas Seagull]

You were doing so well until "Apple". Not sure how the biggest con of all time fits on that list. [emoji14]

I only started buying (it became the success it is?) because of Sir J Ive's design

'Blue Jeans' aka denim were invented in Niems

I really cannot understand why guns are unrestricted yet gambling/sportsbooks/casinos are controlled and exist so few areas

Viva Las Vegas

 

[smillie's garden]

Elvis, Taxi Driver, John Steinbeck, Arthur Miller, Husker Du, Jack Lemmon, The Beats, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, The Velvet Underground, Rockabilly, Johnny Cash, Jim Jarmusch, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Mercury Rev, The Ramones, Dead Kennedys, Jackson Pollock, True Romance, The Grand Canyon, New Mexico, REM, New York, San Fransisco, The Chevrolet Bel Air, The Ford Mustang, Laurel and Hardy, The Godfather Pt 2, The Sopranos, Blue Jeans, Converse All Stars, Rosa Parks, Muhammad Ali, Public Enemy, Jonathan Safran Foer, Carhartt, Red Wing boots, Rock and Roll, Jazz, Blues, The Producers, Richard Prior, Early Woody Allen, Bill Hicks, Jon Stewart, Lenny Bruce, Larry David, Patsy Cline, The Transistor, 3D Printing, Apple, The Wright Brothers, Helping defeat the Nazis, Tupperware, Fender Guitars, Gibson 335.





I hate America.

Wot, no Cheez-Whiz?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

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Wot, no Cheez-Whiz?

Or Nutter Butter

 

[OzMike]

I do struggle with Americans that I have met.
They seem to take everything you say as literal and the English 'black' humour has them totally confused.

 

[mikeyjh]

Mixed bag for me, I've spent a lot of time in the US, mostly on business - Obviously loads of great individuals, but as a nation? Their political and cultural imperialism is something I really struggle with, the total and overriding domination of individual over society something else but in fairness most of it is offset by how many of them fall apart when faced with having to operate in a foreign country, that bit makes me smile.

 

[AlbionPics&SouthCoastTwit]

 

[Bladders]

 

[AlbionPics&SouthCoastTwit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMqcLUqYqrs

 

[W.C.]

Stunning contribution to music culture.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Vegas Vegas Vegas Vegas Vegas Vegas

 

[Sweeney Todd]

Americans are no more likely to stop shooting each other than we British are to stop drinking tea.