THE MANDATE IS CONSTITUTIONAL

[Captain Oates 911]

I'm jealous of your cheese selection!

I don't remember the last time I experienced a temperature below freezing, we didn't have a winter last year. Most people are pretty jolly here, maybe the cold weather makes them grumpy.

Regular US beer is garbage, what's the point in drinking ultra light beer? Might as well have a glass of water.

That's another thing that made us stay here, 2 hours drive to Florida and the most beautiful beaches I've ever seen. How can anyone want to leave that behind?

I would say mosquitoes as they ate me as usual last week in Florida - but they have em here too

John Cleese describes America beer as "frozen gnat's piss" and I think he over-rates it

The Americans always counter with English warm beer which seems to be some urban myth brought back from WW2

In fact English beer is kept at 52 F and hits the stomach at 98.6 F - the same as America beer

I have come across Americans who like English beer but one can never tell.

I die laughing at English beers like Newcastle brown which died out in England as ####### beer but is still sold here!

So much of the USA reminds me of the early 60's in England. I wasn't drinking beer, but people believed in god and were ever so earnest and gullible with no sense of the ridiculous as it was pre-python

These IPA beers in Wiscaarnsin are actually excellent and that, along with really classy rugby and wall-to-wall liberals makes the place almost acceptable.

We spent November 2007 to May 2008 in Safety Harbor Florida and it was lovely - but the I19 is a killing zone and I don't exaggerate about that. It's like an English motorway, 80mph with pedestrians, bicycles, dogs, traffic lights and insane criminal joy riders all stirred into a murderous stretch of road.

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I would say mosquitoes as they ate me as usual last week in Florida - but they have em here too

John Cleese describes America beer as "frozen gnat's piss" and I think he over-rates it

The Americans always counter with English warm beer which seems to be some urban myth brought back from WW2

In fact English beer is kept at 52 F and hits the stomach at 98.6 F - the same as America beer

I have come across Americans who like English beer but one can never tell.

I die laughing at English beers like Newcastle brown which died out in England as ####### beer but is still sold here!

So much of the USA reminds me of the early 60's in England. I wasn't drinking beer, but people believed in god and were ever so earnest and gullible with no sense of the ridiculous as it was pre-python

These IPA beers in Wiscaarnsin are actually excellent and that, along with really classy rugby and wall-to-wall liberals makes the place almost acceptable.

We spent November 2007 to May 2008 in Safety Harbor Florida and it was lovely - but the I19 is a killing zone and I don't exaggerate about that. It's like an English motorway, 80mph with pedestrians, bicycles, dogs, traffic lights and insane criminal joy riders all stirred into a murderous stretch of road.

Same here, the mosquitoes and gnats love me. Must be that sweet foreign blood we have.

I don't understand the warm beer thing. I've never had warm beer. Where does that come from? Apparently all British food is horrible too. Someone said that to me just a week ago. Apparently we eat boiled meat? I've never eaten boiled meat, have you? America has its fair share of disgusting food, look at Ihop and Cracker Barrel.

We have some good local beers down here, Lazy Magnolia and Abita. There's also some recognition of European beers too, I find it's best to stick within those two groups if you don't want to be drinking watery piss.

Do they play lots of 60s/70s/80s music up there? I always feel like I'm in a time warp because stores and restaurants play music from decades ago, it is rarely anything from the last 10 years. The casinos always play classic rock. Just a small town girl... Big wheels keep on turning...

[Captain Oates 911]

Same here, the mosquitoes and gnats love me. Must be that sweet foreign blood we have.

I don't understand the warm beer thing. I've never had warm beer. Where does that come from? Apparently all British food is horrible too. Someone said that to me just a week ago. Apparently we eat boiled meat? I've never eaten boiled meat, have you? America has its fair share of disgusting food, look at Ihop and Cracker Barrel.

We have some good local beers down here, Lazy Magnolia and Abita. There's also some recognition of European beers too, I find it's best to stick within those two groups if you don't want to be drinking watery piss.

Do they play lots of 60s/70s/80s music up there? I always feel like I'm in a time warp because stores and restaurants play music from decades ago, it is rarely anything from the last 10 years. The casinos always play classic rock. Just a small town girl... Big wheels keep on turning...

Music is the usual heavy metal screaming, growling aggressive stuff at 200 decibels. How anyone can express love lyrics in that style is beyond me. I have never found a woman who reacts well to a man expressing his attachment to her by saying 'Yo my beach fo-ever - and if you don't want me I will drag you to my casa and chain you up with my pit"

When receiving a summary of other countries from Americans, I always bear in mind that only 30% of Americans have passports (UK 70.1%) and most of those are for mexicans visiting home. That's another way of saying it's all urban myth and ignorance and many that do go abroad, do so on organized trips where they walk round in groups wearing name tags in case they get separated in that scary environment

I put this forward to demonstrate that Americans in general have ZERO idea about the healthcare system and how good or bad it is in the UK /Germany/France etc They get their info from Fox news or the trash mags which claims a woman is turning into tree and growing leaves because of the lack of treatment by those socialists

They also are pre-disposed to reject everything that is not American and they diminish and rubbish every country in the world

Dismissing everything from everywhere is just plain dumb

Personally I take the best and reject the rest - and I don't care where it come's from That's why I live in the US in a drier climate with low gasoline prices , while retaining the richest parts of the British culture in my personal culture while remembering and rejecting the worst

americans with passports

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Edited July 1, 2012 by Ashud Cocoa

[JohnR! 5,495]

That's why I live in the US in a drier climate with low gasoline prices ,

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Gas is a commodity and as such its price is the asme all over the world, for it is sold in the open market. Gas is America is no cheaper than anywhere else, with the exception of Venezuela, Saudi and a few others oil producing countries...

Edited July 2, 2012 by Gegel

[Captain Oates 911]

Gas is a commodity and as such its price is the asme all over the world, for it is sold in the open market. Gas is America is no cheaper than anywhere else, with the exception of Venezuela, Saudi and a few others oil producing countries...

Now don't be pedantic because pedantic is not good

Gasoline , as represented by it's price to the consumer including taxes, is much cheaper in the USA than in the rest of the industrialized world and even the ape creatures of the Indus valley know that

My first car in the UK was 848cc and my present car is 3.5 liters, and it's like the fuel is "for nothing"

[Karee 4,191]

Gas is a commodity and as such its price is the asme all over the world, for it is sold in the open market. Gas is America is no cheaper than anywhere else, with the exception of Venezuela, Saudi and a few others oil producing countries...

Try filling up in Quebec just across the border from New York. In Plattsburgh, NY the price is 3.56 USD a gallon. In Montreal 60 miles away it is about $1.25 CAD a liter. That comes out to 4.75 CAD a gallon. The Canadian dollar is pretty much par with the U.S. dollar. I suspect there is even a bigger difference when comnparing Europe to the U.S.

[JohnR! 5,495]

Now don't be pedantic because pedantic is not good

Gasoline , as represented by it's price to the consumer including taxes, is much cheaper in the USA than in the rest of the industrialized world and even the ape creatures of the Indus valley know that

My first car in the UK was 848cc and my present car is 3.5 liters, and it's like the fuel is "for nothing"

I am not being pedantic. Just reminding that gas is a commodity, as is oil, the price of which is the same the world over.

Try filling up in Quebec just across the border from New York. In Plattsburgh, NY the price is 3.56 USD a gallon. In Montreal 60 miles away it is about $1.25 CAD a liter. That comes out to 4.75 CAD a gallon. The Canadian dollar is pretty much par with the U.S. dollar. I suspect there is even a bigger difference when comnparing Europe to the U.S.

And the mockery of it all is that Canada is one of the world's top producer oil producer!

Having said that the price of gasoline is the same the world over.

I could not get an ape creature on the phone - perhaps they are out for lunch at the moment - so here is the prices from the internet:

http://money.cnn.com/data/commodities/

Edited July 2, 2012 by Gegel

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

even the ape creatures of the Indus valley know that

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[Captain Oates 911]

Try filling up in Quebec just across the border from New York. In Plattsburgh, NY the price is 3.56 USD a gallon. In Montreal 60 miles away it is about $1.25 CAD a liter. That comes out to 4.75 CAD a gallon. The Canadian dollar is pretty much par with the U.S. dollar. I suspect there is even a bigger difference when comnparing Europe to the U.S.

People on VJ tell me that gasoline is the same price in every country and there are no black communities in US cities. Sometimes it gets quite surreal I have to pinch myself to make sure I am not dreaming

It's like watching a Republican election advert

[JohnR! 5,495]

People on VJ tell me ...

You can check with your simian connections in Asia but I am pretty sure they would concur with the information available on the floors of many a trading places around the globe...

Edited July 2, 2012 by Gegel

[Karee 4,191]

I am not being pedantic. Just reminding that gas is a commodity, as is oil, the price of which is the same the world over.

And the mockery of it all is that Canada is one of the world's top producer oil producer!

Having said that the price of gasoline is the same the world over.

I could not get an ape creature on the phone - perhaps they are out for lunch at the moment - so here is the prices from the internet:

http://money.cnn.com/data/commodities/

You're talking apples and oranges. Just because the price of a barrel of oil is the same, doesn't mean that refined Gasoline is the same. There's variations in refining costs. Transportations costs. And most of all variations in taxes.

[Captain Oates 911]

You can check with your simian connections in Asia but I am pretty sure they would concur with the information available on the floors of many a trading places around the globe...

I don't buy my gasoline on trading floors - they won't let me back my car in

[JohnR! 5,495]

You're talking apples and oranges. Just because the price of a barrel of oil is the same, doesn't mean that refined Gasoline is the same. There's variations in refining costs. Transportations costs. And most of all variations in taxes.

I know it sounds weird but gas prices are no different than gold or corn. It fluctuates with market forces and they are the same the world over. To be sure, it fluctuates with supply and demand and you must include the price of refining and all, but after it is all said and done you can buy gasoline on the floor in NY, Hong Kong or Rio for the same price in the international open market.

[Karee 4,191]

I lived in montreal for a couple years and would dirve down to NY every weekend to fill up and get a carton of Marlboros. They don't sell Marloboros for some reason in Quebec. The Canadian cigarettes were like $11 a pack compared to about $4 at the duty free in NY. Also Taco Bell. No Taco Bell in Montreal.

[JohnR! 5,495]

I don't buy my gasoline on trading floors - they won't let me back my car in

Well, now you know better.