Originally posted by alias101
* ONLY iN AMERiCA » can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.
Depends on how close you live to a hospital. Pizza joints are more evenly distributed than hospitals. The same thing happens in any country. You
should be happy you even have access to a hospital - if something were to happen to you.
Originally posted by alias101
* ONLY iN AMERiCA » are the handicap parking places in front of a skating rink
Not all handicaps keep people from performing physically.
Originally posted by alias101
* ONLY iN AMERiCA » do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy
cigarettes at the front
Regular exercise helps strengthen an individual's immune system, and it is especially beneficial to someone who is ill.
Originally posted by alias101
* ONLY iN AMERiCA » do people order a double cheeseburger, large fries, & diet coke
I've lived in Germany and Japan (and visited countless others), and greedy eaters are greedy eaters (with their imaginary "health" conscious side -
hence, the "diet" drink with all the crap) - it isn't ONLY iN AMERiCA.
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* ONLY iN AMERiCA »do banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens to the counters
It depends on the bank (this isn't dependant upon the country), but if those pens weren't chained down, don't you think there would be an awful lot
of missing pens?
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* ONLY iN AMERiCA » do they leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway & put our useless junk in the garage
I've seen plenty of useless junk stored in peoples' garages in other countries, with nice cars out front. But, generally speaking, people in most
countries don't have the privilege of owning a house - let alone a garage. So who cares what the garage is used for?
Originally posted by alias101
* ONLY iN AMERiCA » do they use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won`t miss a call from someone we didn`t wanna
talk to in the first place.
I've seen people do this in other countries as well.
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* ONLY iN AMERiCA » do they buy hot dogs in packages of 10 and buns in packages of 8
Sorry, but this one can't be used anymore. It's been possible to buy buns in packages of 10 for many, many years now. I'm guessing you don't do
shopping yourself?
Originally posted by alias101
* ONLY iN AMERiCA » do they use the word "politics" to describe the process so well. "poli" in latin meaning MANY & "tics" meaning "blood
sucking creatures"
I'll give you that one. But politics are politics, it doesn't matter which country you're in - politicians will suck the blood right out of
you.
Originally posted by alias101
* ONLY iN AMERiCA »do they have have drive up ATM machines with Braille lettering.
Sorry, but I can find braille lettering on ATMs and other things in many other countries. Not everyone is born with the gift of sight - or are able
to continue using it throughout their whole life.
The point is: generalizations only make individuals look ignorant. Everyone does it (including me), but the more you point it out to people, the less
and less (hopefully) they do it.
Anyways, country bashing is getting old. The fact is, America has some good things, and it has some bad things; however, people also forget that it
is the same way in just about every country of the world. Some countries are better than others, some worse than others, but the truth is: not one
country can truly claim (and prove) to be the best - they all have problems.
