Posted on 07/17/2018 12:51:33 AM PDT by vannrox
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I will have to be honest, it wasn’t until after I left America that I really began to appreciate it.
As well as get really angry as to what it has become.
Here's just a few of the things that I have come to miss...
The first day of hunting season. A big garden full of tomato plants, peppers and onions. Football on lazy Sunday afternoons. The local sports section in the newspaper with photos of friends, relatives, and their kids. Fishing brook trout. A compound bow. A Ruben sandwich with real coleslaw. Rummaging around in a auto junkyard and scrounging some spare parts.
Meeting some friends at the local bar, or club. Chatting about the latest movies. Depth-charges, and pickled eggs. Cleaning out the gutter, and raking leaves. (Yeah, really.) My riding lawnmower.
My tree stand and salt lick.
Chilling out with my uncle while jazz played on the stereo in his living room. Having a "Dagwood" sandwich. The editorial section of the Pittsburgh Press. Taking my motorcycle out for a spin on a nice sunny summer day. "Lighting up" next to a hopper while the Indian summer breeze blew some leaves about. You take these things for granted. It is not until you live without them that you begin to miss them, and appreciate them.
Here is an interesting little vignette from an American who went to visit a coffee-shop in Amsterdam, and discovers that instead of selling coffee, it sold weed and magic mushrooms!
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(Excerpt) Read more at metallicman.com ...
Although it's certainly not perfect this is,in fact,the best country in the history of mankind.
I’m the chef of the future!
>>Water market in Thailand. Here, people sell things on the water by boat. This would be regulated into oblivion in the United States. Why you wouldn’t be able to do anything because of “mah children!”via
they are calling those pop-up shops/markets in the US these days
Things like airbnb, lyft, and uber show that the taxes and fixed prices are way to high for hotel and taxi services. And that isn’t just in the US but globally.
How about throwing out 90% of the regulatory red tape and confiscatory taxes (upwards of 30%) on consumers who use these services?
Creating some ‘new’ exempt service isn’t really any better. Trash the monopoly of entry into taxi service.
Currently I been to 17 different countries and more to visit this year and next year personally I’m just getting tired of what is going on back home it seems we cannot unite on anything anymore even the most simple of things political wise, I think we are becoming a balkanized society and it will get worse as the years go on, makes me jealous of Japan and the Japanese where I live, they do not have the bs we have.
Sorry not me, not racist but I dont fancy asians that much as I used to.
“Nothing sleezier than a fat old American walking around With a young Thai chick.”
Anthony Weiner. Bill Clinton. Harvey Weinstein. Pretty much any male actor. The price point drops in some places overseas...that’s the only difference.
Ha! Who will do the heavy lifting?
“a American”
At first I thought that was a typo in the headline, but no. He did it again in the body of the text.
I lived in Japan for 14 years and would go back in a heartbeat if the opportunity arose. Yeah, there would be things I would miss about the USA, but excepting grandchildren and children, none of it matters that much.
Can’t stand Hillary, I voted forTrump. Lived in other countries......prefer American women. America is my home, I love this country.
I have my retirement mapped out in another country and, yes, there will be things I know I will miss - cajun cooking, English as a first language, being able to flush my toilet paper instead of toss it in the waste basket.
But I see the benefits of being able to live on just pension and social security rather than staying here and working another 10 years just to afford rents and health care worth it.
That might not be a chick ........
Define strong American woman. I suspect you and I may have vastly different definitions.
My definition is simple: One who has her own thoughts and opinions, doesn't succumb to the feminist group-think, doesn't hate men (for the sake of hating men to engender herself to her fellow women) takes care of herself physically, financially and emotionally.
That kind of woman I have zero issues with. Feminists on the other hand ... Houston we have a problem.
So you decided to skip breakfast, and just start dinking long island teas early today.
It’s your life (bitter and angry though it may be) I suppose.
My parents gave good advice to all their kids, such as learn how to do the basics, such as cooking, sewing, cleaning, mechanical repair, learn a specific skill, such as woodworking, flying, or playing an instrument, learn about history, music,art, and literature, and learn a language and live overseas for a while.
They’ve all good and they have served all of us well, but the last one was a great idea. It really gives a person the ability to see the good and bad, the effective and useless and the relaxing and irritating of cultures, something someone who stays in his locale has a hard time doing.
The nervousness around police-officers is sooo true.
Don’t knock it, until you TRIED it...
I hear ya
That’s a pretty ugly paragraph
I know a freeper woman you should meet lol
Lol
I have no dog in this hunt but Fred’s screed struck me as very bitter
Strong American women are a pain in the ass from what I can see
It’s not worth the trouble....I don’t want hear me roar
I’ve got a southern wife....it ain’t maintenance free but prolly as old school as they come for “strong American women”
I don’t blame guys whatsoever going overseas for sex or a wife
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