Yeah...I mean I admit there are nitwits in this country. But then again, a South African guy once asked me if I rode horses to school and work since I'm from Texas. An Italian guy once asked me what my cow brand looked like. Hell, I get that when I'm traveling to the Northeast US. It's part of being a "foreigner." I got a call from my girlfriend today (she touched down in Ireland and had spent the day walking around and was dead tired and jet lagged) and she said she went into a comic shop to see if she could still pick up the American comics she read. When she tried talking to the sales clerk, he had no clue what she was saying and gave her this look like, "you're a foreigner, I don't know how to deal with you" and pointed her to the wall the comics were on. That's just the nature of going somewhere foreign. The dumb ones treat you like a 5-year-old because they think you're just some strange foreign savage (or, in my case, snooty American or redneck).
Oh, and apparently if you're from Texas you're automatically a bloodthirsty warmonger who'd follow George W. Bush into hell and back without thinking twice. I can assure you, I'm none of those things. I'm actually quite ashamed he's from my state. As for our tastes in beer...my physics teacher is from Holland, and he said on his first trip to America he wanted to impress all these IBM executives he was meeting with, so he told a joke from his country: "How is American beer like making love in a canoe? They're both f***ing near water." He said the table got so quiet he could hear himself melting into the seat. I'll admit, Americans aren't dark beer drinkers. As a matter of fact, most Americans HATE dark beer. I talk about how I'm really into Guinness (cuz I am) and most people are like, "eeewww!!! Ugh!! That sh*t is gross, dude! How can you drink that sh*t?" To me it kinda tastes like a weird-flavored milkshake, but that's me. Look at it this way: In China, Budweiser is a delicacy, so we're not the worst beer country around, I swear!!!
Da_elf wrote:Seems twice is average.
Actually, Once is moreso the average. All the countries I've mentioned are the only ones who've hosted it more than once. Other countries like Italy, Findland, Belgium, Sweden, Japan, Mexico, Canada, The Netherlands, Russia, Spain, and South Korea have only hosted it once. China is going to host it for the first time ever in 2008 in Beijing. Looking at the trends in selecting cities, though, I think it moreso has to do with the actual ability to support the Olympics. Countries like America, the UK, and Australia can support the Olympics better because they have the money to dump into the facilities, the room to house all the contenders as well as those who flock to the cities to see the games, and the places big enough to hold the events. I mean, as much as Ethiopia would love to have an Olympics there, I sincerely doubt it's going to happen.
And Charlemagne, come on, you call your money "loonies." How do you not expect people from other countries to make fun of that? You might as well stamp a "Kick Me" sign on the back of each one.
