What else is "unusual" about the USA and Americans?
Bulletguy1
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This is kind of carrying on from the "America is a big mistake" thread where yesterday i initially laughed at an American poster who claimed he never knew electric kettles existed...
...only to be told later by another American poster that indeed that it is a fact and electric kettles were not even available in the States until a few years ago! 
Now, considering this is the country which stuck a bloke on the Moon 45 years ago, albeit helped by a very well known ex-Nazi (;-)), i couldn't help but wonder what else they have been deprived of which we take for granted?
After all, whilst we were busy rebuilding bombed out buildings after the war, suffering rationing, and building cars like this.....they were playing around with Rockets, making rather large cars with big wings which couldn't fly, and protected from the rest of the wicked world by these guys.
Now i know we have much smaller roads and tiny houses which they will never have, but what else do we know of that Americans have been deprived of which we've taken for granted over many years in this country?
...only to be told later by another American poster that indeed that it is a fact and electric kettles were not even available in the States until a few years ago! Now, considering this is the country which stuck a bloke on the Moon 45 years ago, albeit helped by a very well known ex-Nazi (;-)), i couldn't help but wonder what else they have been deprived of which we take for granted?
After all, whilst we were busy rebuilding bombed out buildings after the war, suffering rationing, and building cars like this.....they were playing around with Rockets, making rather large cars with big wings which couldn't fly, and protected from the rest of the wicked world by these guys.
Now i know we have much smaller roads and tiny houses which they will never have, but what else do we know of that Americans have been deprived of which we've taken for granted over many years in this country?
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I'd wager more than Britain, but less than Germany.
I'd add satire, sarcasm and irony to the list of things Americans are deprived of, but thanks to the net they seem to be getting there. ;-)
The Time Out is an abomination and should be banned.
"Thank-you"
"You're welcome"
<snigger>
Much fewer than Britain. And no smokey bacon flavoured!!
Was that the one that did it as a demonstration outside a school?
Our railway network system in terms of network density and train frequency.
You've never seen the Summer Solstice parade in Seattle, have you?
At the very least! Poor, deprived people...:(
That 'does it' brilliantly but unfortunately has rarely been aired. Get the dvd set and you will soon see what i mean!
Haha, I couldn't remb it, but for some reason I can sing the theme song. So I went to youtube, and it's all coming back to me now.
Moral rights (in terms of copyright).
Jay Fullmer, 38, yesterday became the first American to get to grips with the concept of irony. "It was weird" Fullmer said. "I was in London and like, talking to this guy and it was raining and he pulled a face and said, "Great weather eh?" and I thought - "Wait a minute, no way is it great weather". Fullmer then realised that the other man's 'mistake' was in fact deliberate.
Fullmer, who is 39 next month and married with two children, aged 8 and 3, plans to use irony himself in future. "I'm, like, using it all the time" he said. "Last weekend I was grilling steaks and I burned them and I said "Hey, great weather."
Next door neighbour Ralph is the real 'star' as leader of his Vigilante Force!
Totally nuts......but it's Americans making fun of America and its peculiarities and fruit loop nut jobs!
A rarity. :cool: