I have been living in Germany for 20 years now (in fact I was born there), and I NEVER saw ANY Lederhose. What makes you think we wear them?

Stereotypes.

When you're in the neighborhood, you should visit the Netherlands and be amazed by the complete absence of clogs ;) (aka "wooden shoes")

Or windmills in Holland...or SUVs in (some parts of) the US... haha, the list could be really long.

Nah, SUVs are everywhere in the US. That stereotype is totally correct. You know the "driving a 14 passenger SUV alone to go to work, eating a hamburger, is obese anyway, gets 12 mpg on a good day, has both a 'right to life' and a 'kill the crooks' bumper sticker." It's totally correct. Unfortunately.

P.S.: How would you say 'miles per gallon' in Europe? I assume it's 'kilometers per liter', and how do you abbreviate it?

As you can tell, I hold no great love for my country. In general, I believe, Americans are stupid shits who don't care about anything except personal profit and self-aggrandizement.

This is, of course, a generalization, and doesn't apply to everybody, but it's a pretty good snapshot of the country as a whole. Not to mention, according to the BBC, if everybody has an American's lifestyle, it would take 5.3 planets to supply us. The closest runner-up is Britain at 3.1 planets.

"I'm generalizing from one example, here, but everyone
generalizes from one example. At least, I do." -- Issola, by Steven Brust

That's why I put in the "some parts". Yeah, the 5.3 planets part is insane - people need to start realizing what they're doing.

That is a very sad outlook!

I love my country even though it is not perfect. But then... what country is perfect?

God's country.

Or possibly Switzerland or Australia. Maybe St. Lucia.

As you can probably tell, I'm tired, and I've been working on a lovely bastardized combination of bash shell scripts and Applescripts (ah, shell scripts calling Applescripts calling shell scripts). All to mount and dismount a drive automatically, and to kill NAV's drive autoscan when it mounts.

*runs screaming into the night, forgetting he lives on the eighth floor*

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*thud*

it may be sad but it is true.
saddly their are more people who think this way then their are peolple who do something about it.

Ha...TI's crazy ideas are creating crazy things. Before you know it, TI will come out with a thing that works like a PDA, and with color, too.

<sarcasm>Of course! Didn't you hear about the Voyage 300? Gosh, don't you read the news on TICalc.org?</sarcasm>

sorry; been around ticalc for WAY too long

<sarcasm> it's the ti-100 clor, geeze </sarcasm>

Say, why do people always use made-up html tags?

*color*

<duh> Because people can't tell you're being sarcastic or whatever otherwise and sometimes it's funny</duh>

well i prefer to do something like this "sarcastic remarc (sarcasm)" cuz when you use fake html tags it makes you look rly nerdy, but w/e all my friends know im a nerd and they dont care, haha but the funniest one is when ppl do that <cough>...</cough> thing, that cracks me up

<smartass>They're called pseudo HTML tags</smartass>

<comment topic="html tags"> They might not be valid HTML tags, but they're perfectly valid XML! <emoticon type="smile" /> </comment>

<joke><good_idea> Maybe we should start tagging all of our posts, and parts of posts, with XML so the comment database is easier to search? </good_idea></joke>

400, dude. 400.

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