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Roger
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 Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 10:04 am Post subject: Re: Why do you Americans want to be in Europe so much??? |
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| Bindair Dundat wrote: |
| Hod wrote: |
To you Americans I ask only this: Why do you love Europe so much? |
In Europe, it's the beer and the whores.
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From the horse's mouth - so to speak!
Now we know what cultural "level" Abu Bin Da has...
And such Americans live abroad, "teaching"???
Teach what...? |
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Hod
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| Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 10:21 am Post subject: ... |
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Best reply so far. Some of the other replies here are so unbelievably l------o------n------g that.......well absolutely no one reads them. I feel sorry for the students who have to put up with such windbags in the classroom. 
People who write more then 100 words in a post should be banned by Dave.
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merlin
Joined: 10 May 2004
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Location: Somewhere between Camelot and NeverNeverLand
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Sorry everyone - you're way off.
Being an Amerikin 'livin in Europe and not wantin tuh REturn I feel I'm qualified to make a blanket statement for everyone.
ANYHOO-
First there's the Americans who idealize Europe and think it is SUCH a civilized and cultured place. Maybe they lived here a year or so, probably as exchange students or the like and get a sense of superieority when they talk to their fellow Americans In Europe they la de da de da This is the "the grass is greener" group.
Also with this group are those newbies (less than 5 years is still a newbie) who havn't yet had the pelasure of seeing how uncivilized this wonderful "civilized" part of the world can be. This is the "Whatever I'm doing is cool" group.
Then there are the non-Americans who hate America. Whatever. These are the finger-pointers, the my shiite don't stink group.
Then there are the people who have left and become more and more orphaned every year and when we return "home" we feel like martians. We may be in Europe for a few years, then back to Asia then here then there, wherever. Some of us may be seeking Eden. Some of us try to make Eden wherever we are. |
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zaneth
Joined: 31 Mar 2004
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Location: Between Russia and Germany
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| I kind of like this swapping idea. If someone from Britain wants to come to America and work, and I want to go to Britain to work, seems like that would work out OK. We should be able to get work permits expedited or something. |
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Hod
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| Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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| merlin wrote: |
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I’d prefer to label them the “easily-pleased” department.
I see a reality TV show, a sort of Big Brother in reverse: Twelve Americans in some dustbowl working in intolerable conditions. To avoid the unthinkable eviction from the Big Brother house, each contestant must spend hours each day filling in forms which never get read. They’re then fed every night with the local excuse for food. Points are lost for needless cheering and saying how awesome stuff is, etc. The winner is the first to make a dash for the nearest Western Union with enough debt to alter the USA’s economy for a fortnight. |
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