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Title: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: Baruch on July 15, 2018, 01:39:42 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqitLNTTUzc

Take a calculated risk, make sure you have the means ... and give the right attitude ... and victory is possible, even if you are lost.
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: Draconic Aiur on July 15, 2018, 03:42:59 PM
We have bigger portions of food.
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: Baruch on July 15, 2018, 04:10:43 PM
Quote from: Draconic Aiur on July 15, 2018, 03:42:59 PM
We have bigger portions of food.

Necessary for workers and soldiers.  Starving people can't work or fight.  That is the final state of failing civilizations.
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: Mr.Obvious on July 15, 2018, 04:47:29 PM
They make Some of The best movies.
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: Mike Cl on July 15, 2018, 05:45:28 PM
This country plays the best brand of baseball and we have the New York Yankees!!
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: Mr.Obvious on July 15, 2018, 05:46:39 PM
Also, the best place to watch American Football.
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: Unbeliever on July 15, 2018, 06:03:12 PM
We have checks and balances so that one branch of our government can't lord it over the other two branches. At least, we used to.
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: Baruch on July 15, 2018, 06:37:23 PM
Quote from: Unbeliever on July 15, 2018, 06:03:12 PM
We have checks and balances so that one branch of our government can't lord it over the other two branches. At least, we used to.

You were lied to in Civics 101 about 40 years ago.  Grow up!
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: Unbeliever on July 15, 2018, 06:43:19 PM
Grow up!? That's no fun...
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: Baruch on July 15, 2018, 06:44:56 PM
Quote from: Unbeliever on July 15, 2018, 06:43:19 PM
Grow up!? That's no fun...

Here is how international relations are really done ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0cOiHDwLZ4

Dogbert is the real deal.

Scott Adams is even more real, he is an actual person, not a cartoon dog genius ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwWJ6rMOtQw&list=PLgTTPO9CmGBoplLyvh2d8RP0akKzioN4r&index=144

Let your close mind explode.
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: Jason78 on July 15, 2018, 07:03:03 PM
Americans play some of the best american football in the world.

(If you don't count the London Monarchs)
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: Unbeliever on July 15, 2018, 07:17:42 PM
Yeah, Americans just love taking their strongest, healthiest men and giving them a lifetime of brain damage.
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: SGOS on July 15, 2018, 07:26:31 PM
We take care of the wealthy.
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: PickelledEggs on July 15, 2018, 07:26:58 PM
I live here.

Enough said.
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: Baruch on July 15, 2018, 07:27:57 PM
Quote from: SGOS on July 15, 2018, 07:26:31 PM
We take care of the wealthy.

But not as good as European royalty ;-))  Chelsea only had a $2.5 million wedding, Prince William had a $250 million wedding.
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: trdsf on July 15, 2018, 10:53:44 PM
We keep Canada and Mexico from having a head-on collision.  Because no one needs jalapeños in their poutine.
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: Hydra009 on July 15, 2018, 11:01:28 PM
Quote from: trdsf on July 15, 2018, 10:53:44 PM
We keep Canada and Mexico from having a head-on collision.  Because no one needs jalapeños in their poutine.
*light bulb turns on*

(https://i.imgur.com/B7EfRs3.png)

edit - aww, someone beat me to it.  :(
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: Hydra009 on July 15, 2018, 11:11:23 PM
Largest producer of turkey, beef, milk (from cows), blueberries, strawberries, grapefruit, almonds, and corn.

^ collectively, the ability to make one hell of a salad!
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: Shiranu on July 15, 2018, 11:44:39 PM
Mexican food.
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: trdsf on July 15, 2018, 11:55:31 PM
Quote from: Hydra009 on July 15, 2018, 11:01:28 PM
*light bulb turns on*

(https://i.imgur.com/B7EfRs3.png)

edit - aww, someone beat me to it.  :(
Bob help me, I would eat that.  Once, anyway.
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: Hydra009 on July 16, 2018, 12:08:29 AM
Quote from: Shiranu on July 15, 2018, 11:44:39 PM
Mexican food.
Chinese American food.

I love everything from the faded, indecipherable wall-mounted menu display to the expertly organized but engrishy paper menus, the beautiful paintings of storks amidst a flowing waterfall or pandas munching on bamboo in a majestic forest, the antiquated TV playing what I'm almost certain is Chinese state media, to the 8-year-old running the cash register.

To my dismay, I once learned that Kung Pao is an unpopular dish in China (http://travel.cnn.com/shanghai/eat/why-do-chinese-people-hate-kung-pao-chicken-and-foreigners-love-it-415057/).  Pourquoi?!
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: Mr.Obvious on July 16, 2018, 06:50:06 AM
Your shops are open late.

That's handy.
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: Baruch on July 16, 2018, 07:08:10 AM
Quote from: Shiranu on July 15, 2018, 11:44:39 PM
Mexican food.

Tex-Mex ... ahem.  Not true Mexican food.  New Mexico cuisine is also all-American.  Tacos and nachos are American.  As is Chop Suey.
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: Baruch on July 16, 2018, 07:09:38 AM
Quote from: Mr.Obvious on July 16, 2018, 06:50:06 AM
Your shops are open late.

That's handy.

I just missed out, getting a pint of pork fried rice, last night, after teaching Hebrew.  1 hour too late ... so had to satisfy with a Big Mac.
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: Cavebear on July 17, 2018, 03:56:13 AM
We keep hockey and darts from infesting SA and those idiotic catholic festivals from attacking Canada.  And we try not to say "heh" so SA and CA. 
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: Mr.Obvious on July 17, 2018, 04:32:37 AM
Quote from: Baruch on July 16, 2018, 07:09:38 AM
I just missed out, getting a pint of pork fried rice, last night, after teaching Hebrew.  1 hour too late ... so had to satisfy with a Big Mac.

It's okay for you to eat swine?
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: Baruch on July 17, 2018, 06:43:11 AM
Quote from: Mr.Obvious on July 17, 2018, 04:32:37 AM
It's okay for you to eat swine?

I would never eat a D or an R ... not even sexually!

What is in a Big Mac is a mystery ;-)

Uncooked pork is bad for you.  Ancient people didn't know that, unless you were Jewish.  Jewish doctors were that good.  Kosher minus medical knowledge is just superstition.  Kind of like politics.
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: Mr.Obvious on July 17, 2018, 06:51:27 AM
Quote from: Baruch on July 17, 2018, 06:43:11 AM
I would never eat a D or an R ... not even sexually!

What is in a Big Mac is a mystery ;-)

Uncooked pork is bad for you.  Ancient people didn't know that, unless you were Jewish.  Jewish doctors were that good.  Kosher minus medical knowledge is just superstition.  Kind of like politics.

I'll agree you have more chance of finding cardboard than pig in your big mac, but you did mention pork fried rice :D
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: Baruch on July 17, 2018, 07:01:20 AM
Quote from: Mr.Obvious on July 17, 2018, 06:51:27 AM
I'll agree you have more chance of finding cardboard than pig in your big mac, but you did mention pork fried rice :D

Did have it last night (got there early).  Delicious.  Of course, it was actually cooked FoxCon workers ... they gotta pay for messing up iPhones being sent to Belgium etc.
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: Mr.Obvious on July 17, 2018, 07:04:05 AM
Quote from: Baruch on July 17, 2018, 07:01:20 AM
Did have it last night (got there early).  Delicious.  Of course, it was actually cooked FoxCon workers ... they gotta pay for messing up iPhones being sent to Belgium etc.

Oh, that's alright then.


Sent from my Iphone
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: Baruch on July 17, 2018, 07:08:47 AM
Quote from: Mr.Obvious on July 17, 2018, 07:04:05 AM
Oh, that's alright then.


Sent from my Iphone

SJWs say .. because the world has poor people, we should all eat insects.  I don't have any idea how to have oral sex with one of those.  But in most cases, insects are kosher.

On FoxCon ... sometimes pizza parlors are owed by the Mob.  Sometimes difficult mobsters end up as pizza toppings.  The Chinese imitate all our good American ideas.
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: Mr.Obvious on July 17, 2018, 07:13:49 AM
Quote from: Baruch on July 17, 2018, 07:08:47 AM
SJWs say .. because the world has poor people, we should all eat insects.

I say : because the world has poor people, we should all eat poor people.
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: Baruch on July 17, 2018, 07:16:08 AM
Quote from: Mr.Obvious on July 17, 2018, 07:13:49 AM
I say : because the world has poor people, we should all eat poor people.

Our biggest crop ;-)  The Chinese are well known for cannibalism, when they get hungry enough.
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: Cavebear on July 25, 2018, 11:53:01 AM
Quote from: Mr.Obvious on July 17, 2018, 07:13:49 AM
I say : because the world has poor people, we should all eat poor people.

How very Jonathan Swiftian of you, LOL!
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: Cavebear on July 25, 2018, 11:54:46 AM
Quote from: Baruch on July 17, 2018, 07:16:08 AM
Our biggest crop ;-)  The Chinese are well known for cannibalism, when they get hungry enough.

Evidence please (i.e., well-known")...
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: Mike Cl on July 25, 2018, 12:42:03 PM
Quote from: Baruch on July 17, 2018, 07:16:08 AM
Our biggest crop ;-)  The Chinese are well known for cannibalism, when they get hungry enough.
You are getting that confused with the Donner Party.
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: Baruch on July 25, 2018, 01:13:16 PM
Quote from: Mike Cl on July 25, 2018, 12:42:03 PM
You are getting that confused with the Donner Party.

I don't think the Chinese railway workers were in the immediate area then ;-)
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: Cavebear on July 25, 2018, 05:21:09 PM
One wonders if the Donner Party had Chinese for dinner...  Long Pork stir fry...
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: Mike Cl on July 25, 2018, 05:24:35 PM
Quote from: Baruch on July 25, 2018, 01:13:16 PM
I don't think the Chinese railway workers were in the immediate area then ;-)
Of course they were; it was noted in some book or other, that they went out for Chinese quite often.
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: Cavebear on July 25, 2018, 05:27:55 PM
Quote from: Mike Cl on July 25, 2018, 05:24:35 PM
Of course they were; it was noted in some book or other, that they went out for Chinese quite often.

Sliced thin, who can tell.  And a few bits of boiled tree bark, some lichen...  One might get by to write the book.
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: Mike Cl on July 25, 2018, 05:45:18 PM
Quote from: Cavebear on July 25, 2018, 05:27:55 PM
Sliced thin, who can tell.  And a few bits of boiled tree bark, some lichen...  One might get by to write the book.
I was referring to the Donner Party--they did eat each other to make it.  And they sliced thin and diced and stewed and stuff like that. 
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: Sal1981 on July 25, 2018, 05:50:33 PM
Anyone can become president.
Title: Re: Say something positive about American ways ...
Post by: Cavebear on July 25, 2018, 05:54:30 PM
Quote from: Sal1981 on July 25, 2018, 05:50:33 PM
Anyone can become president.

Apparently.  Are you campaigning for the job?  I can write tweets and applaud wildly.