Things you like about the Yanks

[Fred Oliver - Legend]

Area 51

 

[Two Professors]

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

'Wish I had lipstick on my shirt,instead of piss stains on my shoes'-love Terry Hall's lyrics.

Don't think anybody has mentioned the USA's greatest cultural achievement,The Simpsons!

 

[Gwylan]

2. The value they place on good customer service.

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.

 

[Buzzer]

'Wish I had lipstick on my shirt,instead of piss stains on my shoes'-love Terry Hall's lyrics.

Also:

Bouncers bouncing through the night
Trying to stop or start a fight
...
Hope the chip shop isn't closed
Cos' their pies are really nice

 

[SK1NT]

Playboy

 

[Buzzer]

Area 51

Otherwise known as Selhurst Park.

 

[pearl]

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.

Gosh, did you get to meet your grandmother?

 

[Badger]

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 totally agree with this. It's FAKE customer service which doesn't feel genuine in any way. They might as well employ robots to repeat the same phrases over and over again.


I like that they lost the war of 1812, so Canada exists.

 

[pearl]

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.

Literature - James Ellroy, William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthey

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Atlanta Falcons
Tom Hanks
Eagles (The)

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

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.
Der de der der der der
Der de der der der der

 

[Washie]

The fact that they celebrate the signing of the declaration of independence on the wrong day.

 

[GT49er]

Coca cola and their food are probably the only good things about yanks,

Yes, their contribution to obesity should not be overlooked........

 

[Easy 10]

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.

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 general terms though, I love americans. I find them open, engaging, positive and welcoming, especially in the Midwest where us Brits are far more of a rarity than in NYC. They're easy to strike up a conversation with and are fun to be around. I think I could quite happily live in the US.

 

[Simster]

MLB.

 

[banjo]

The women are mighty fine. Yee haw!!

 

[whitelion]

Gosh, did you get to meet your grandmother?

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.

 

[studio150]

Freight trains
Steaks
Scenery

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

The fact that you can drive round a corner on a red light if there's nothing coming. Also the fact that traffic lights switch to just flashing orange after a certain time at night, so you can proceed with caution without being held up. Two ideas that are far too sensible to ever be adopted over here. And neither initiative results in more crashes/accidents before someone says it.

 

[Two Professors]

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.
Der de der der der der
Der de der der der der

'Are all you Brits so big.I sure do crave your c*ck'