Ways to improve the US by becoming more like the rest of the world (1 Viewer)

[Kal El]

Interesting that so many would post against the metric system. It's such a HUGE improvement over the English system, and I thought only truly ignorant folks would prefer feet/yards/miles and pounds/ounces to meters and kilograms.

American ignorance at it's best.

How many nations using the meyric system have sent men to the Moon?

 

[Chaka]

Thread Summary: Basically if it's a change a typical Christian Conservative wouldn't want, it'd be good for America.

Well, the effing typical Christian Conservatives better catch up then. WTF is wrong with those people?

Well, there's the whole "We believe God gave us certain rules to live by, and we try to do so in spite of everyone else telling us we're wrong, because we feel God's will should take precedence over our own" argument. Granted, some of the things many so-called Christian Conservatives get hung up on are purely opinion, but some are things we feel we should stand up for.

Y'know that argument would be so much better if there were bit more uniformity among the Christian denominations. Because it pretty much all comes off as people ordering their religious beliefs from the ala carte menu.

 

[Dan Gladden's Mustache]

Interesting that so many would post against the metric system. It's such a HUGE improvement over the English system, and I thought only truly ignorant folks would prefer feet/yards/miles and pounds/ounces to meters and kilograms.

American ignorance at it's best.

How many nations using the meyric system have sent men to the Moon?

Nasa uses the metric system, Galileo.

 

[Politician Spock]

Thread Summary: Basically if it's a change a typical Christian Conservative wouldn't want, it'd be good for America.

Well, the effing typical Christian Conservatives better catch up then. WTF is wrong with those people?

Well, there's the whole "We believe God gave us certain rules to live by, and we try to do so in spite of everyone else telling us we're wrong, because we feel God's will should take precedence over our own" argument. Granted, some of the things many so-called Christian Conservatives get hung up on are purely opinion, but some are things we feel we should stand up for.

Y'know that argument would be so much better if there were bit more uniformity among the Christian denominations. Because it pretty much all comes off as people ordering their religious beliefs from the ala carte menu.

This is because too many of them (which includes me) do not distinguish between belief in Jesus and belief in doctrine. If you do not believe their doctrine, then they conclude you don't really believe in Jesus.

 

[msommer]

Interesting that so many would post against the metric system. It's such a HUGE improvement over the English system, and I thought only truly ignorant folks would prefer feet/yards/miles and pounds/ounces to meters and kilograms.

American ignorance at it's best.

How many nations using the meyric system have sent men to the Moon?

Nasa uses the metric system, Galileo.

Is the answer then one? I'm

 

[Kal El]

Interesting that so many would post against the metric system. It's such a HUGE improvement over the English system, and I thought only truly ignorant folks would prefer feet/yards/miles and pounds/ounces to meters and kilograms.

American ignorance at it's best.

How many nations using the meyric system have sent men to the Moon?

Nasa uses the metric system, Galileo.

Saw the quote online, thought it was funny. But not everyone there uses it, since someone crashed a Mars rover because they didn't convert the units.

 

[Dan Gladden's Mustache]

Interesting that so many would post against the metric system. It's such a HUGE improvement over the English system, and I thought only truly ignorant folks would prefer feet/yards/miles and pounds/ounces to meters and kilograms.

American ignorance at it's best.

How many nations using the meyric system have sent men to the Moon?

Nasa uses the metric system, Galileo.

Saw the quote online, thought it was funny. But not everyone there uses it, since someone crashed a Mars rover because they didn't convert the units.

Great point. Using English measures causes #### to not work.

 

[Kal El]

Thread Summary: Basically if it's a change a typical Christian Conservative wouldn't want, it'd be good for America.

Well, the effing typical Christian Conservatives better catch up then. WTF is wrong with those people?

Well, there's the whole "We believe God gave us certain rules to live by, and we try to do so in spite of everyone else telling us we're wrong, because we feel God's will should take precedence over our own" argument. Granted, some of the things many so-called Christian Conservatives get hung up on are purely opinion, but some are things we feel we should stand up for.

Y'know that argument would be so much better if there were bit more uniformity among the Christian denominations. Because it pretty much all comes off as people ordering their religious beliefs from the ala carte menu.

Spock said it right, too many value doctrine over the Person the doctrine is supposed to be about. That's why I go to a non-denominational church now.

 

[msommer]

Interesting that so many would post against the metric system. It's such a HUGE improvement over the English system, and I thought only truly ignorant folks would prefer feet/yards/miles and pounds/ounces to meters and kilograms.

American ignorance at it's best.

How many nations using the meyric system have sent men to the Moon?

Nasa uses the metric system, Galileo.

Saw the quote online, thought it was funny. But not everyone there uses it, since someone crashed a Mars rover because they didn't convert the units.

Part of the job was outsourced to Lockheed Martin

http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02/

ETA: Which means no entity using the English or Imperial measuring system has landed #### on MARS!

 

[Kal El]

Interesting that so many would post against the metric system. It's such a HUGE improvement over the English system, and I thought only truly ignorant folks would prefer feet/yards/miles and pounds/ounces to meters and kilograms.

American ignorance at it's best.

How many nations using the meyric system have sent men to the Moon?

Nasa uses the metric system, Galileo.

Saw the quote online, thought it was funny. But not everyone there uses it, since someone crashed a Mars rover because they didn't convert the units.

Great point. Using English measures causes #### to not work.

On a side note, have you seen what the measurement of a meter is based on? Or a kilogram for that matter? It's an almost completely arbitrary measurement that the average Tom, Mahmoud or Heinrich on the street couldn't possibly care less about. At least the imperial system is easily visualized as to where the measurements came from.

 

[Gene Sackman]

Interesting that so many would post against the metric system. It's such a HUGE improvement over the English system, and I thought only truly ignorant folks would prefer feet/yards/miles and pounds/ounces to meters and kilograms.

American ignorance at it's best.

Dont let the door hit you on the way out..

USA USA USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Dan Gladden's Mustache]

Interesting that so many would post against the metric system. It's such a HUGE improvement over the English system, and I thought only truly ignorant folks would prefer feet/yards/miles and pounds/ounces to meters and kilograms.

American ignorance at it's best.

How many nations using the meyric system have sent men to the Moon?

Nasa uses the metric system, Galileo.

Saw the quote online, thought it was funny. But not everyone there uses it, since someone crashed a Mars rover because they didn't convert the units.

Great point. Using English measures causes #### to not work.

On a side note, have you seen what the measurement of a meter is based on? Or a kilogram for that matter? It's an almost completely arbitrary measurement that the average Tom, Mahmoud or Heinrich on the street couldn't possibly care less about. At least the imperial system is easily visualized as to where the measurements came from.

Where did they come from?

It's easily visualized because it's what you grew up with. Meters are easily visualized by people that grew up using metric.

 

[Kal El]

One observation I've made about this is that people from various parts of the world mock the US for not knowing things about their nation. To that, one could easy say "why should we, when our own nation could fit several land areas the size of your nation in it?" That's not a crack at other nations, but the Unied States is big enough that a problem in a neighboring state may as well be a problem in a neighboring country, and bigger nations seem to lead to bigger issues.

 

[roadkill1292]

Thread Summary: Basically if it's a change a typical Christian Conservative wouldn't want, it'd be good for America.

Well, the effing typical Christian Conservatives better catch up then. WTF is wrong with those people?

Well, there's the whole "We believe God gave us certain rules to live by, and we try to do so in spite of everyone else telling us we're wrong, because we feel God's will should take precedence over our own" argument. Granted, some of the things many so-called Christian Conservatives get hung up on are purely opinion, but some are things we feel we should stand up for.

You're just getting smaller in my rear view mirror.

 

[DiStefano]

Interesting that so many would post against the metric system. It's such a HUGE improvement over the English system, and I thought only truly ignorant folks would prefer feet/yards/miles and pounds/ounces to meters and kilograms.

American ignorance at it's best.

How many nations using the meyric system have sent men to the Moon?

Nasa uses the metric system, Galileo.

Saw the quote online, thought it was funny. But not everyone there uses it, since someone crashed a Mars rover because they didn't convert the units.

The reason why we are technically superior is because our scientists have to constantly work back and forth between the two systems. It is mathematical practice which hones their skills, and we can easily beat the Eurotrash that can only work in tenths.

 

[msommer]

Interesting that so many would post against the metric system. It's such a HUGE improvement over the English system, and I thought only truly ignorant folks would prefer feet/yards/miles and pounds/ounces to meters and kilograms.

American ignorance at it's best.

How many nations using the meyric system have sent men to the Moon?

Nasa uses the metric system, Galileo.

Saw the quote online, thought it was funny. But not everyone there uses it, since someone crashed a Mars rover because they didn't convert the units.

Great point. Using English measures causes #### to not work.

On a side note, have you seen what the measurement of a meter is based on? Or a kilogram for that matter? It's an almost completely arbitrary measurement that the average Tom, Mahmoud or Heinrich on the street couldn't possibly care less about. At least the imperial system is easily visualized as to where the measurements came from.

Well the little French artillery officer wanted to make sure it got easier to hit something, and he got his wish. But it has since been redefined from the original measures to be even more incomprehensible.

But the good thing is that regardless of the unit size, the deci, kilo etc is so much easier to calculate with than imperial pints or pounds or inches

 

[msommer]

Interesting that so many would post against the metric system. It's such a HUGE improvement over the English system, and I thought only truly ignorant folks would prefer feet/yards/miles and pounds/ounces to meters and kilograms.

American ignorance at it's best.

How many nations using the meyric system have sent men to the Moon?

Nasa uses the metric system, Galileo.

Saw the quote online, thought it was funny. But not everyone there uses it, since someone crashed a Mars rover because they didn't convert the units.

The reason why we are technically superior is because our scientists have to constantly work back and forth between the two systems. It is mathematical practice which hones their skills, and we can easily beat the Eurotrash that can only work in tenths.

except apparently the guy at Lockheed martin

 

[sdp1226]

I thought the plan is to make the rest of the world more like America.

Well the rest of the world is getting fatter.

This is true. I visit Spain often and during my latest visit, I saw more McD's there than any of my previous visits. As the growth of these fast food chains continue, so will their numbers in Diabetes, Obesity and Heart Disease.

 

[Dan Gladden's Mustache]

Interesting that so many would post against the metric system. It's such a HUGE improvement over the English system, and I thought only truly ignorant folks would prefer feet/yards/miles and pounds/ounces to meters and kilograms.

American ignorance at it's best.

How many nations using the meyric system have sent men to the Moon?

Nasa uses the metric system, Galileo.

Saw the quote online, thought it was funny. But not everyone there uses it, since someone crashed a Mars rover because they didn't convert the units.

The reason why we are technically superior is because our scientists have to constantly work back and forth between the two systems. It is mathematical practice which hones their skills, and we can easily beat the Eurotrash that can only work in tenths.

If there's one thing rocket scientists need more of, it's arithmetic.

 

[Chaka]

One observation I've made about this is that people from various parts of the world mock the US for not knowing things about their nation. To that, one could easy say "why should we, when our own nation could fit several land areas the size of your nation in it?" That's not a crack at other nations, but the Unied States is big enough that a problem in a neighboring state may as well be a problem in a neighboring country, and bigger nations seem to lead to bigger issues.

Yes, American's know so much about Russia, China, Antarctica, Australia and Greenland.

 

[Grace Under Pressure]

One observation I've made about this is that people from various parts of the world mock the US for not knowing things about their nation. To that, one could easy say "why should we, when our own nation could fit several land areas the size of your nation in it?" That's not a crack at other nations, but the Unied States is big enough that a problem in a neighboring state may as well be a problem in a neighboring country, and bigger nations seem to lead to bigger issues.

Americans are good with regions. America, Europe and Asia, South America and Australia. If you're a smaller country (or state) inside one of those regions, don't expect us to know your minutia. A lot of generalizing here, but there's something like knowing about Big Ben in London and then there's something like knowing that Luxembourg is like 2nd or 3rd in per capita income from watchmaking in some castle or whatever.

 

[DiStefano]

One observation I've made about this is that people from various parts of the world mock the US for not knowing things about their nation. To that, one could easy say "why should we, when our own nation could fit several land areas the size of your nation in it?" That's not a crack at other nations, but the Unied States is big enough that a problem in a neighboring state may as well be a problem in a neighboring country, and bigger nations seem to lead to bigger issues.

Americans are good with regions. America, Europe and Asia, South America and Australia. If you're a smaller country (or state) inside one of those regions, don't expect us to know your minutia. A lot of generalizing here, but there's something like knowing about Big Ben in London and then there's something like knowing that Luxembourg is like 2nd or 3rd in per capita income from watchmaking in some castle or whatever.

Having lived overseas, this is a common complaint: "We all know a lot about America, why don't most Americans know anything about us".

The basic reason is that the US is the most powerful country in the world, and tends to dominate the media stories. And so, people watching TV or reading newspapers tend to get a lot of US news. On the other hand, when you come to smaller countries, the media stories are sparse. We don't know a lot about them. My usual answer to them was: California is bigger than your country, who is the governor? (that was in pre Terminator days).. That would usually end the conversation.

 

[msommer]

One observation I've made about this is that people from various parts of the world mock the US for not knowing things about their nation. To that, one could easy say "why should we, when our own nation could fit several land areas the size of your nation in it?" That's not a crack at other nations, but the Unied States is big enough that a problem in a neighboring state may as well be a problem in a neighboring country, and bigger nations seem to lead to bigger issues.

Americans are good with regions. America, Europe and Asia, South America and Australia. If you're a smaller country (or state) inside one of those regions, don't expect us to know your minutia. A lot of generalizing here, but there's something like knowing about Big Ben in London and then there's something like knowing that Luxembourg is like 2nd or 3rd in per capita income from watchmaking in some castle or whatever.

Having lived overseas, this is a common complaint: "We all know a lot about America, why don't most Americans know anything about us".

The basic reason is that the US is the most powerful country in the world, and tends to dominate the media stories. And so, people watching TV or reading newspapers tend to get a lot of US news. On the other hand, when you come to smaller countries, the media stories are sparse. We don't know a lot about them. My usual answer to them was: California is bigger than your country, who is the governor? (that was in pre Terminator days).. That would usually end the conversation.

So, by that logic, tell me about Indian politics. At five times the population of the US I am sure you are very fascinated about that great nation and have an informed stance on the recent election.

 

[CBusAlex]

At least the imperial system is easily visualized as to where the measurements came from.

The length of some dead dude's foot? The distance a Roman legion can march in a thousand paces? Yes, these are totally more relatable measurements than, like, the freezing point of water or its weight. Water is one of the rarest substances on earth, so no one has any sort of intuitive understanding of its physical properties.

 

[Chaka]

One observation I've made about this is that people from various parts of the world mock the US for not knowing things about their nation. To that, one could easy say "why should we, when our own nation could fit several land areas the size of your nation in it?" That's not a crack at other nations, but the Unied States is big enough that a problem in a neighboring state may as well be a problem in a neighboring country, and bigger nations seem to lead to bigger issues.

Americans are good with regions. America, Europe and Asia, South America and Australia. If you're a smaller country (or state) inside one of those regions, don't expect us to know your minutia. A lot of generalizing here, but there's something like knowing about Big Ben in London and then there's something like knowing that Luxembourg is like 2nd or 3rd in per capita income from watchmaking in some castle or whatever.

Having lived overseas, this is a common complaint: "We all know a lot about America, why don't most Americans know anything about us".

The basic reason is that the US is the most powerful country in the world, and tends to dominate the media stories. And so, people watching TV or reading newspapers tend to get a lot of US news. On the other hand, when you come to smaller countries, the media stories are sparse. We don't know a lot about them. My usual answer to them was: California is bigger than your country, who is the governor? (that was in pre Terminator days).. That would usually end the conversation.

So, by that logic, tell me about Indian politics. At five times the population of the US I am sure you are very fascinated about that great nation and have an informed stance on the recent election.

Kal El's logic was based on size, which is kind of silly. DiStefano actually made a better point, we export our entertainment all around the world and our government actions abroad are reported all over the world because they have a global impact. The same cannot be said for India on either front, although that is slowly changing. So it makes sense that they would know more about us than we do about them.

 

[Mr.Pack]

No tipping restaurant servers.

No tipping period. Do your ####### job.

So basically you're saying raise their wages from $2-$3 to min wage or more, thus raising prices so restaurants can afford to stay in business?

 

[Mr.Pack]

No employer provided healthcare.

No one would be able to afford it unless they did the smart thing and open competition across state lines. You will see prices tumble. Then it would work.

 

[Politician Spock]

No tipping restaurant servers.

No tipping period. Do your ####### job.

So basically you're saying raise their wages from $2-$3 to min wage or more, thus raising prices so restaurants can afford to stay in business?

The only people who would be hurt by this is the cheap bastards who currently find any reason they can to avoid leaving a tip. They're the only ones paying less than market value for full service restaurant food. In fact, everyone else is probably paying more because of their cheap asses.

 

[roadkill1292]

No tipping restaurant servers.

No tipping period. Do your ####### job.

So basically you're saying raise their wages from $2-$3 to min wage or more, thus raising prices so restaurants can afford to stay in business?

The only people who would be hurt by this is the cheap bastards who currently find any reason they can to avoid leaving a tip. They're the only ones paying less than market value for full service restaurant food. In fact, everyone else is probably paying more because of their cheap asses.

I'm forced to withhold a like on this post only because it was you who made it.

 

[Slapdash]

I thought the plan is to make the rest of the world more like America.

Well the rest of the world is getting fatter.

This is true. I visit Spain often and during my latest visit, I saw more McD's there than any of my previous visits. As the growth of these fast food chains continue, so will their numbers in Diabetes, Obesity and Heart Disease.

Spain already has elevated stats in these categories. Something about that insane food schedule.

 

[FreeBaGeL]

One thing I've never understood about McDonalds. 70% of the time (totally made up statistic) that a European wants to make fun of an American they base their insult around that person going to McDonalds. Yet, every McDonalds that I've ever seen in Europe has been absolutely packed to the gills with people.

For people that make fun of people eating at McDonalds, they sure do seem to love their McDonalds.

 

[Captain Quinoa]

Thread Summary: Basically if it's a change a typical Christian Conservative wouldn't want, it'd be good for America.

Well, the effing typical Christian Conservatives better catch up then. WTF is wrong with those people?

Well, there's the whole "We believe God gave us certain rules to live by, and we try to do so in spite of everyone else telling us we're wrong, because we feel God's will should take precedence over our own" argument. Granted, some of the things many so-called Christian Conservatives get hung up on are purely opinion, but some are things we feel we should stand up for.

You're just getting smaller in my rear view mirror.

no, that's just your eyesight getting worse

 

[Clifford]

Has anyone mentioned "develop a respect for human life worthy of a first-world economic power" yet?

 

[Dan Gladden's Mustache]

Has anyone mentioned "develop a respect for human life worthy of a first-world economic power" yet?

Depends what you mean by respect for human life.

 

[Kal El]

One observation I've made about this is that people from various parts of the world mock the US for not knowing things about their nation. To that, one could easy say "why should we, when our own nation could fit several land areas the size of your nation in it?" That's not a crack at other nations, but the Unied States is big enough that a problem in a neighboring state may as well be a problem in a neighboring country, and bigger nations seem to lead to bigger issues.

Americans are good with regions. America, Europe and Asia, South America and Australia. If you're a smaller country (or state) inside one of those regions, don't expect us to know your minutia. A lot of generalizing here, but there's something like knowing about Big Ben in London and then there's something like knowing that Luxembourg is like 2nd or 3rd in per capita income from watchmaking in some castle or whatever.

Having lived overseas, this is a common complaint: "We all know a lot about America, why don't most Americans know anything about us".

The basic reason is that the US is the most powerful country in the world, and tends to dominate the media stories. And so, people watching TV or reading newspapers tend to get a lot of US news. On the other hand, when you come to smaller countries, the media stories are sparse. We don't know a lot about them. My usual answer to them was: California is bigger than your country, who is the governor? (that was in pre Terminator days).. That would usually end the conversation.

So, by that logic, tell me about Indian politics. At five times the population of the US I am sure you are very fascinated about that great nation and have an informed stance on the recent election.

Kal El's logic was based on size, which is kind of silly. DiStefano actually made a better point, we export our entertainment all around the world and our government actions abroad are reported all over the world because they have a global impact. The same cannot be said for India on either front, although that is slowly changing. So it makes sense that they would know more about us than we do about them.

I hurried my post, because I had something to do, so I couldn't properly elucidate my point. It's not so much about size as it is about distance from, at least in my specific case. For example, a news story about something happening in Istanbul, for example, is going to have a much greater impact to people in Turkey and the impact will be lessened by the time the story makes the news in, say, Morocco. An example here would be that since I live in southern Florida, a news story coming across the wire from Walla Walla, Washington is going to have less of an impact than a story from Key West. Apologies for any misunderstandings.

 

[msommer]

One observation I've made about this is that people from various parts of the world mock the US for not knowing things about their nation. To that, one could easy say "why should we, when our own nation could fit several land areas the size of your nation in it?" That's not a crack at other nations, but the Unied States is big enough that a problem in a neighboring state may as well be a problem in a neighboring country, and bigger nations seem to lead to bigger issues.

Americans are good with regions. America, Europe and Asia, South America and Australia. If you're a smaller country (or state) inside one of those regions, don't expect us to know your minutia. A lot of generalizing here, but there's something like knowing about Big Ben in London and then there's something like knowing that Luxembourg is like 2nd or 3rd in per capita income from watchmaking in some castle or whatever.

Having lived overseas, this is a common complaint: "We all know a lot about America, why don't most Americans know anything about us".

The basic reason is that the US is the most powerful country in the world, and tends to dominate the media stories. And so, people watching TV or reading newspapers tend to get a lot of US news. On the other hand, when you come to smaller countries, the media stories are sparse. We don't know a lot about them. My usual answer to them was: California is bigger than your country, who is the governor? (that was in pre Terminator days).. That would usually end the conversation.

So, by that logic, tell me about Indian politics. At five times the population of the US I am sure you are very fascinated about that great nation and have an informed stance on the recent election.

Kal El's logic was based on size, which is kind of silly. DiStefano actually made a better point, we export our entertainment all around the world and our government actions abroad are reported all over the world because they have a global impact. The same cannot be said for India on either front, although that is slowly changing. So it makes sense that they would know more about us than we do about them.

No it doesn't.

My personal experience which admittedly is a small sample size is that many US citizens don't care about the rest of the world.

To try to put a reason or two behind that would be supposition on my behalf

 

[Chaka]

One observation I've made about this is that people from various parts of the world mock the US for not knowing things about their nation. To that, one could easy say "why should we, when our own nation could fit several land areas the size of your nation in it?" That's not a crack at other nations, but the Unied States is big enough that a problem in a neighboring state may as well be a problem in a neighboring country, and bigger nations seem to lead to bigger issues.

Americans are good with regions. America, Europe and Asia, South America and Australia. If you're a smaller country (or state) inside one of those regions, don't expect us to know your minutia. A lot of generalizing here, but there's something like knowing about Big Ben in London and then there's something like knowing that Luxembourg is like 2nd or 3rd in per capita income from watchmaking in some castle or whatever.

Having lived overseas, this is a common complaint: "We all know a lot about America, why don't most Americans know anything about us".

The basic reason is that the US is the most powerful country in the world, and tends to dominate the media stories. And so, people watching TV or reading newspapers tend to get a lot of US news. On the other hand, when you come to smaller countries, the media stories are sparse. We don't know a lot about them. My usual answer to them was: California is bigger than your country, who is the governor? (that was in pre Terminator days).. That would usually end the conversation.

So, by that logic, tell me about Indian politics. At five times the population of the US I am sure you are very fascinated about that great nation and have an informed stance on the recent election.

Kal El's logic was based on size, which is kind of silly. DiStefano actually made a better point, we export our entertainment all around the world and our government actions abroad are reported all over the world because they have a global impact. The same cannot be said for India on either front, although that is slowly changing. So it makes sense that they would know more about us than we do about them.

No it doesn't.

My personal experience which admittedly is a small sample size is that many US citizens don't care about the rest of the world.

To try to put a reason or two behind that would be supposition on my behalf

What you are saying does not run counter to my point. When the decisions other countries make directly impact the stability of the region in which you live you will learn more about those countries.

And when those other countries start making great movies and television shows, well ones that we don't just remake in familiar settings, then we will learn more about those countries.

Right now the U.S. does those things and other countries don't really do it back.

 

[Chaka]

My goodness people, would it kill you to tune into NPR every now and then?

 

[Leroy Hoard]

One thing I've never understood about McDonalds. 70% of the time (totally made up statistic) that a European wants to make fun of an American they base their insult around that person going to McDonalds. Yet, every McDonalds that I've ever seen in Europe has been absolutely packed to the gills with people.

For people that make fun of people eating at McDonalds, they sure do seem to love their McDonalds.

And yet one of (if not the most) popular items at McDonalds is named after the French. Go figure.

 

[Politician Spock]

One thing I've never understood about McDonalds. 70% of the time (totally made up statistic) that a European wants to make fun of an American they base their insult around that person going to McDonalds. Yet, every McDonalds that I've ever seen in Europe has been absolutely packed to the gills with people.

For people that make fun of people eating at McDonalds, they sure do seem to love their McDonalds.

And yet one of (if not the most) popular items at McDonalds is named after the French. Go figure.

I like the Filet-0-Fish.

 

[Kal El]

Thread Summary: Basically if it's a change a typical Christian Conservative wouldn't want, it'd be good for America.

Well, the effing typical Christian Conservatives better catch up then. WTF is wrong with those people?

Well, there's the whole "We believe God gave us certain rules to live by, and we try to do so in spite of everyone else telling us we're wrong, because we feel God's will should take precedence over our own" argument. Granted, some of the things many so-called Christian Conservatives get hung up on are purely opinion, but some are things we feel we should stand up for.

You're just getting smaller in my rear view mirror.

We're apparently traveling in different directions, so that's probably bound to happen. I'd rather us be on the same side of the road, provided neither of us bog down traffic.

 

[timschochet]

If we did this conversion would we have to change every football field in America, or just convert the measurements?

"it's third down and 13.2 meters...."

 

[Freelove]

If we did this conversion would we have to change every football field in America, or just convert the measurements?

"it's third down and 13.2 meters...."

It's already divided into tens. Just remove the reference to yards, and it's automatically metric-friendly.

"Third down and two football length units to go..."

 

[Sand]

My goodness people, would it kill you to tune into NPR every now and then?

They have NPR in Europe?

 

[Fennis]

One thing I've never understood about McDonalds. 70% of the time (totally made up statistic) that a European wants to make fun of an American they base their insult around that person going to McDonalds. Yet, every McDonalds that I've ever seen in Europe has been absolutely packed to the gills with people.

For people that make fun of people eating at McDonalds, they sure do seem to love their McDonalds.

And yet one of (if not the most) popular items at McDonalds is named after the French. Go figure.

I like the Filet-0-Fish.

look at the, Frenchie.. "Filet"

 

[Ilov80s]

Odd how terrible romcom is but how perfect sitcom is.

 

[sdp1226]

Bidets.

Yes to the butt bath.

 

[Donsmith753]

Support Palestine

 

[Ilov80s]

Support Palestine

I'm past the point of supporting either side.

 

[renesauz]

Interesting that so many would post against the metric system. It's such a HUGE improvement over the English system, and I thought only truly ignorant folks would prefer feet/yards/miles and pounds/ounces to meters and kilograms.

American ignorance at it's best.

What would switching to the metric system gain us?

Quick...how many feet in a mile? yards?

The English system is stupid. The foot was literally the length of the king's foot, an inch the bone in his thumb. A ten based system is infinitely more sensible than one where 12 inches = 1 foot yet 8 ounces = 1 cup, not to mention 16 ounces in a pound. And how many cups in a quart? A gallon?

The conversions in the English system are ridiculous.