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Teikanmi posted:Nah, being a upper middle class white man in a nice part of California is still better than being just about anything else that you could reroll your life into Bahahahah
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StupidSexyVaultGuy posted:Crazy kids *Piers Morgan desperately sprints toward Paul Ryans office, being chased by a small army of capital police* "Mr speaker! Mr speaker! Have you seen this drawing of m-" *Trips over a protester and slams face first into the wall, knocking himself out*
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Apr 21, 2018 10:14
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Teikanmi posted:Being American still carries a lot of weight and commands more respect than being from like, Denmark or something. I say this as a white American who has spent most of his adult life living/studying/working in Europe and Asia 
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Apr 21, 2018 10:14
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Teikanmi posted:Being American still carries a lot of weight and commands more respect than being from like, Denmark or something. I say this as a white American who has spent most of his adult life living/studying/working in Europe and Asia that must have been a decade ago or something, granpda. we mostly just feel pity now when we meet an american: gargantuan student debts, joke healthcare system, total social collapse, dysfunctional political system, retarded kleptocrats(ME!) in power. you don't hear a lot of positive things about the US on the news anymore.
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Apr 21, 2018 10:17
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Just say you're from California, or better Canada, when you visit Europe and you'll be fine. Danes own tho and Americans are not NEARLY as cool
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denmark is cool. it's the third happiest country on earth and has one of the highest human development index. pffff, the US as a whole can only dream of being denmark.
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Apr 21, 2018 10:19
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95% of Europeans automatically assume that Americans are fat, brash and stupid. If they are being polite to you its probably because they are either suspiciously side eyeing you waiting for you to say something retarded or are trying to work out if your one of the OK ones.
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Apr 21, 2018 10:22
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Teikanmi posted:Being American still carries a lot of weight and commands more respect than being from like, Denmark or something. I say this as a white American who has spent most of his adult life living/studying/working in Europe and Asia Lol
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Apr 21, 2018 10:23
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Teikanmi posted:Being American still carries a lot of weight 
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Apr 21, 2018 10:24
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today i learned that cashiers in many american supermarkets are forced to stand through their entire shift as a form of dehumanizing power play by corporate leadership. lmao but also pretty sad. slmao
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Apr 21, 2018 10:35
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About half the time, when Europeans guess where I'm from based on my Midwestern accent, they guess Canada. I've stopped correcting them.
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Apr 21, 2018 10:35
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Raspberry Jam It In Me posted:today i learned that cashiers in many american supermarkets are forced to stand through their entire shift as a form of dehumanizing power play by corporate leadership. lmao but also pretty sad. slmao Being a wroker at Walmart still carries a lot of weight and commands more respect than being from like, Lidl or something. I say this as a walmartian American who has spent most of his adult life living/studying/working in gigantic soulless stores
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Apr 21, 2018 10:40
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https://twitter.com/PalmerReport/status/987559227039170560
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Apr 21, 2018 10:50
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Goa Tse-tung posted:I say this as a walmartian Proof of life on Walmars!
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Apr 21, 2018 10:50
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Goa Tse-tung posted:Being a wroker at Walmart still carries a lot of weight and commands more respect than being from like, Lidl or something. I say this as a walmartian American who has spent most of his adult life living/studying/working in gigantic soulless stores still remember when walmart tried to expand into germany ten years ago. it was a total disaster and they made it only a year or two before getting out again. germans were especially creeped out by the concept of a greeter and workers trying to pack groceries for them. now aldi& lidl are taking over the US. our shady, exploitative discount supermarkets are a socialist utopian working place by US standards. cashiers earn a living wage, they can sit during their shift and there are no wage slaves packing your groceries for below living wage. hail lidl
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Apr 21, 2018 11:10
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i do like my fellow euros for thinking that, if you're being served, you're being insulted. only lazy retards like being served
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Apr 21, 2018 11:17
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Teikanmi posted:Being American still carries a lot of weight and commands more respect than being from like, Denmark or something. I say this as a white American who has spent most of his adult life living/studying/working in Europe and Asia 
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Apr 21, 2018 11:19
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Over 60 million people voted for Donald Trump, can you believe it???
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Apr 21, 2018 11:20
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FWIW, an American overseas believing they 'commands more respect' by virtue of being American plays into pretty much every conceivable stereotype the rest of us have of you guys.
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Apr 21, 2018 11:30
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you americans better not gently caress with us europeans and try to invade us. we may have small armies but we are united and we punch above our weight. our leopard panzers and mirage fighters are going to shoot down all your landing boats. pew pew!
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Apr 21, 2018 11:37
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Apr 21, 2018 11:39
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Raspberry Jam It In Me posted:slow news day to the tune of "no woman, no cry" no retard no tweet
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Apr 21, 2018 11:41
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Teikanmi posted:Being American still carries a lot of weight and commands more respect than being from like, Denmark or something. I say this as a white American who has spent most of his adult life living/studying/working in Europe and Asia 
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Apr 21, 2018 11:45
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To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand being an American overseas. The etiquette is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of American geography a lot of regional behavior will go right over a typical European’s head. There’s also the American pioneer spirit and independence, which is deftly woven into everything we do. Our personal philosophy draws heavily from the literature of Thomas Payne, John Locke and Thomas Hobbes, for instance. Americans understand this stuff. As a consequence, Europeans who dislike Americans really *are* idiots. Of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the profundity of the simple statement “MAGA” spoken with a human being dog smile. 
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Apr 21, 2018 11:57
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Teikanmi posted:Nah, being a upper middle class white man in a nice part of California is still better than being just about anything else that you could reroll your life into I think you're mistaking respect with the mix of horror and curiosity for the bizarre that people show. It's not often that you meet people that are the punchline of western civilization. An example of what could go wrong, if you let retards and religious fanatics run the show - combined with superior and undeserved firepower. Denmark is pretty fine. Horrible tourists though.
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Apr 21, 2018 12:05
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Raspberry Jam It In Me posted:you americans better not gently caress with us europeans and try to invade us. we may have small armies but we are united and we punch above our weight. our leopard panzers and mirage fighters are going to shoot down all your landing boats. pew pew! Our demand is that you halt production of "Ibiza sound."
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Apr 21, 2018 12:10
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Gotta hand it to Teikanmi for giving us all a good chuckle on this dark, tweetless day.
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I majored in American Studies and American history was taught by this horribly obese guy called Clifford Bates. Here, check out his webpage: http://batesca.tripod.com/ He was constantly sweating and wheezing, sipping diet cokes and telling covertly racist jokes. Like he's in Warsaw and he says to us something like "Don't try to cheat. I know you Poles like to cheat, but there's one nation who beat it out of you. The Germans." And he did that human being dog smile while saying this, I swear. Yeah, being American sure commands more respect.
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Teikanmi posted:Nah, being a upper middle class white man in a nice part of California is still better than being just about anything else that you could reroll your life into. Oh, your right, I wish I was upper middle class Californian instead of Australian with all my *squints* beautiful beaches, free health care, government assistance programs, zero percent University loans, unions, workers rights and *reads carefully* sensible gun regulation.
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Teikanmi posted:
That's not what it's all about.
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Terminally Bored posted:I majored in American Studies and American history was taught by this horribly obese guy called Clifford Bates. Here, check out his webpage: Did he fly home with teeth left in his mouth?
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Terminally Bored posted:I majored in American Studies and American history was taught by this horribly obese guy called Clifford Bates. Here, check out his webpage: lol at that "joke", lmao at that website
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Power Khan posted:Did he fly home with teeth left in his mouth? No one really said anything. It was during an exam. I hate that guy so much. He still works there btw: http://www.asc.uw.edu.pl/faculty_pl.html
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Terminally Bored posted:I majored in American Studies and American history was taught by this horribly obese guy called Clifford Bates. Here, check out his webpage:
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Terminally Bored posted:And he did that human being dog smile while saying this, I swear. Checks out:  (from http://batesca.tripod.com/webdoc3.htm)
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Raspberry Jam It In Me posted:still remember when walmart tried to expand into germany ten years ago. it was a total disaster and they made it only a year or two before getting out again. germans were especially creeped out by the concept of a greeter and workers trying to pack groceries for them. now aldi& lidl are taking over the US. our shady, exploitative discount supermarkets are a socialist utopian working place by US standards. cashiers earn a living wage, they can sit during their shift and there are no wage slaves packing your groceries for below living wage. hail lidl Similarly Gamestop went in aggressively in Europe and bought up smaller chains in many countries. For about a year they tried their whole deal with asking if you want to preorder the next AAA game, get Game Informer or insure your purchase and customers hated it. They dropped it after a while. All in all it didn't work out for them since they had stupidly high prices and ended up closing most of their stores. The end result is that here in Oslo for instance there are almost no places left to buy games anymore. You have to trek to music or electronic stores. While digital sales are obviously a big part of it they absolutely gutted the marked.
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America can suck a fart out of my European rear end like a bong-hit.
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From ‘04 to ‘11 I was working overseas and backpacking during my vacations instead of going back to the States. It took a lot of effort to explain to people that not all Americans were blood thirsty idiots, and that some of them were actually pretty cool, when Bush jr was in the White House. While Obama was in office it was much easier. I can’t even begin to imagine what it is like for travelers from the US since trump was elected. South fucked around with this message at 12:31 on Apr 21, 2018 |
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South posted:From ‘04 to ‘11 I was working overseas and backpacking during my vacations instead of going back to the States. It took a lot of effort to explain to people that not all Americans were blood thirsty idiots, and that some of were actually pretty cool, when Bush jr was in the White House. While Obama was in office it was much easier. the advice to "say you're canadian" has never been stronger. i don't meet many americans in ireland anymore, but the amount of canadians i meet at bars has shot way up
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And obviously if you ask some poor bastard in any random shithole country, if they could live anywhere else in the world, they would answer America. Thanks Hollywood.
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