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The quaintness of America, the backwards superpower
Telegraph - UK ^
| March 10, 2012
| Peter Foster
Posted on 03/10/2012 7:36:57 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Edited on 03/10/2012 7:39:16 AM PST by Admin Moderator.
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
If this came from the UK they seem to forget that they would all be speaking German if it were not for this “backwards superpower”.
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posted on
03/10/2012 7:38:33 AM PST
by
FrankR
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Good lord this Brit whines. He should put on his wife’s knickers and man up.
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posted on
03/10/2012 7:40:43 AM PST
by
mnehring
To: FrankR
Always helps to read the column, first. He’s writing about personal checks, ATM’s, imperial measurements, and cable TV.
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posted on
03/10/2012 7:41:39 AM PST
by
1rudeboy
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Before everybody gets all pear-shaped, it's basically just a "they do things differently than we do" article, not an attack.
Bitching about our use of non-metric systems. Ouch!
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posted on
03/10/2012 7:45:42 AM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: dead
Before everybody gets all pear-shaped, it's basically just a "they do things differently than we do" article, not an attack. Yes, and since turnabout is fair play - the Brits still drive on the wrong side of the road. How quaint!
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posted on
03/10/2012 7:49:31 AM PST
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Among his complaints: checks, ATM fees, non-metric measurements, cable TV menus, wine bottle with corks and bad roads.
When he gets back he'll cry about gas prices and tiny cars.
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posted on
03/10/2012 7:49:43 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(You only have three billion heartbeats in a lifetime.How many does the government claim as its own?)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Don't get me started on that great British food.
To: Cincinatus' Wife
I was stationed in the UK. I know backward and we ain’t it.
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posted on
03/10/2012 7:50:44 AM PST
by
Islander7
(There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Everyone still routinely writes out cheques (or "checks") for everything from school trips to the monthly gas bill.Umm, no. Last routine checks I wrote were installments on a car I bought from a relative. Everything else os on-line.
Checks are for private sales when cash is impractical, or for gifts, or for important transactions for which I want a paper record.
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posted on
03/10/2012 7:51:37 AM PST
by
ExGeeEye
(Islam: a transnational fascist government that demands worship.)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
I wish Western Europeans wouldn’t presume to speak for my friends here in Central Europe. Poles, Romanians etc. have a different mind-set from Western Europeans...
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posted on
03/10/2012 7:51:40 AM PST
by
Cronos
(Party like it's 12 20, 2012)
To: FrankR
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posted on
03/10/2012 7:51:53 AM PST
by
sbMKE
To: FrankR
In 1944, we were not backwards in relation to things he discusses in this article.
The comparisons he makes about the state of things elsewhere in the world versus here are all pretty much valid. I would prefer to drive my vehicle on the M4 in South Africa than the I-45 between Dallas and Houston, for example.
Living on past glory is not really an answer to most of the questions, large and small, that we face as a nation.
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posted on
03/10/2012 7:51:56 AM PST
by
L,TOWM
(Once you see that it is all Kabuki Theater, you are free to quit wasting your time on politics.)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
$450 in ATM fees for one trip? Bad planning. Or the ignorance of foreigners.
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posted on
03/10/2012 7:52:49 AM PST
by
ExGeeEye
(Islam: a transnational fascist government that demands worship.)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Look mummy, I’m a journalist!
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Americans like corks in their wine because it’s part of the process of having a glass of wine. You get to practice with the corkscrew and the reward is that you get to smell the cork. I’ve never bothered to try smelling a bottle cap. Corks are just cooler.
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posted on
03/10/2012 7:54:00 AM PST
by
married21
(As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
I will say that European train stations are nice. But....I hate German toilets. Who wants to stare at your own crap?
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posted on
03/10/2012 7:55:23 AM PST
by
rbg81
(Only taxpayers should be allowed to vote)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Screw top wine bottles? So uncivilized it borders on barbaric...
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posted on
03/10/2012 7:55:39 AM PST
by
ejonesie22
(8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Thanks Cincinatus' Wife.
...as a new arrival to America I keep stumbling over things that I find gloriously, surprisingly -- how to put this? -- backward.
Probably he was thrown off by our continued devotion to monarchy.
Backwards? The boats and planes can take him backwards to his UK. Soon please.
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posted on
03/10/2012 8:01:16 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Remember in the seventies when we used to discuss our use of non-metric systems. They still talk about it in the UK!! Like they're still in the seventies!
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posted on
03/10/2012 8:01:28 AM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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