434 2 #1 November 28, 2011 Here in Norway and Europe, we are constantly spammed with bad news about USA. War, vets with no rights, lies, police terror and brutality, the most consuming country in the world compare to the popultion etc etc. Can you tell me what is not wrong with USA? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gravitymaster 0 #2 November 28, 2011 We are being held prisoner. Please send for help. This is a horrible place to live. Stay away. Enter at your own risk. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andy9o8 2 #3 November 28, 2011 You people have such a fjord mentality. Anyhow, here's your sign. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NewGuy2005 53 #4 November 28, 2011 We are not undergoing a debt crisis that threatens to take the rest of the world down with it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pirana 0 #5 November 28, 2011 We get the same thing here about other places. It's the media feeding the masses what they want to hear. The media here appears to lean heavily on 2 types of stories: 1 - Ghastly events that falsely represent what the majority is actually doing or thinking. 2 - Meaningless fluff (such as the annual highway-traffic-stopped-so-the-family-of-geese/ducks/raccoons/whatever-can-croos-the-freeway. Result is that most of the world is very informed on everybody else's mass murders and baby animal crossing." . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,116 #6 November 28, 2011 >Here in Norway and Europe, we are constantly spammed with bad news about USA. True everywhere. Last big news story about Norway was that a terrorist killed like 80 people. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
434 2 #7 November 28, 2011 I was expecting that one, but you know the pictere is bigger than that. I could go on with weekly murders in bigger scales from your part of the world etc etc. I asked what is good about your country, trying to focuse on the the positive sides, and get slammed Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,148 #8 November 28, 2011 Quote I was expecting that one, but you know the pictere is bigger than that. I could go on with weekly murders in bigger scales from your part of the world etc etc. I asked what is good about your country, trying to focuse on the the positive sides, and get slammed OK, the interest rate on US bonds is way lower than on those of Greece, Italy, Portugal and Belgium. It is Europe's debt crisis that currently threatens the world economy. I can get in my plane and fly just about anywhere in the continental USA without having to ask anyone's permission or tell anyone where I'm going. We have more DZs than any other country.... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bertt 0 #9 November 28, 2011 from Norway Post - Sept. 11, 2010 Norway spends more on education A new report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) shows that Norway is one of the world’s top spenders on education. Placing only second to the United States and Switzerland, the Norwegian state, on average, spends US$12,000 per student. Not only that, but Americans have barbecue; Norwegians have lutefisk. Any more questions?You don't have to outrun the bear. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
434 2 #10 November 28, 2011 Well you americans is good at comparing yourselves and brag about it when you are better at it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dmcoco84 5 #11 November 28, 2011 QuoteCan you tell me what is not wrong with USA? Um... Grunnloven Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airdvr 210 #12 November 28, 2011 Stay out...it's not safe here for Europeans.Please don't dent the planet. Destinations by Roxanne Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,116 #13 November 28, 2011 >I was expecting that one, but you know the pictere is bigger than that. Ding ding ding! You got it! What the news reports is a tiny fraction of what is actually going on - and often is only the bad news. If you came to the US you'd see people driving to work, taking care of their kids, fixing their houses, shopping etc. Pretty much like everywhere else. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gravitymaster 0 #14 November 28, 2011 QuoteStay out...it's not safe here for Europeans. Which is pretty funny considering all the Europeans who think they know so much about the U.S. from news reports. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marinus 0 #15 November 28, 2011 Quote If you came to the US you'd see people driving to work, taking care of their kids, fixing their houses, shopping etc. Pretty much like everywhere else. Only you guys shoot other people whilst doing it, right? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,116 #16 November 28, 2011 >Only you guys shoot other people whilst doing it, right? Well, sometimes. But that's also true of everywhere else. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cocheese 0 #17 November 28, 2011 We have open season on the LA freeway.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoU39Rpp4FI Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
christelsabine 1 #18 November 28, 2011 Quote >I was expecting that one, but you know the pictere is bigger than that. Ding ding ding! You got it! What the news reports is a tiny fraction of what is actually going on - and often is only the bad news. If you came to the US you'd see people driving to work, taking care of their kids, fixing their houses, shopping etc. Pretty much like everywhere else. Yep. But most of us Western Europeans do that unarmed. F. e., I never was afraid sending my son to school when he was old enough and wanted to go by himself. Never had to fear he will be in the middle of a school shooting. Will you join your boy, one day, and will you be armed? (Hi lurch ) Oh my, I already can hear JR nervously surfing the net, looking for bloody news about Europe (Germany) .... Have been to the US many times, never felt unsafe, never saw blood. Perhaps, it's in the heads of unarmed sheeps like us having the imagination that the *Yanks* still walk around, ready to shoot. You live in the US, you see it different. I do not live there, so I of course also see it different. And vice versa, I guess ..... dudeist skydiver # 3105 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,116 #19 November 28, 2011 >Yep. But most of us Western Europeans do that unarmed. So do most Americans. >I never was afraid sending my son to school when he was old enough and wanted >to go by himself. ============= The Winnenden school shooting occurred on the morning of 11 March 2009 at a secondary school in Winnenden, Baden-Württemberg, in southwestern Germany, followed by a shootout at a car dealership in nearby Wendlingen. The shooting spree resulted in 16 deaths, including the suicide of the perpetrator, 17-year-old Tim Kretschmer, who had graduated from the school one year earlier. Another 11 persons were injured during the incident. ============ >Will you join your boy, one day, and will you be armed? No. I'll probably worry about as much as you will. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marinus 0 #20 November 28, 2011 Quote Well, sometimes. But that's also true of everywhere else. I was only kidding, hence the This year they gave 5 notoriously hard to get gun permits to a suicidal paranoid schizophrenic, including one for an Smith & Wesson M&P15-22. Luckily the nutcase wasn't a very good shot, but it still got us a couple of days of interesting television Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,116 #21 November 28, 2011 >This year they gave 5 notoriously hard to get gun permits to a suicidal paranoid schizophrenic That sounds like a problem that would quickly solve itself. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
normiss 895 #22 November 28, 2011 Depends on who you ask...... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marinus 0 #23 November 28, 2011 QuoteThat sounds like a problem that would quickly solve itself. It did, but not quickly enough and when the problem "got solved" it unfortunately was on a busy day in a mall. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
christelsabine 1 #24 November 28, 2011 Quote >Yep. But most of us Western Europeans do that unarmed. So do most Americans. >I never was afraid sending my son to school when he was old enough and wanted >to go by himself. ============= The Winnenden school shooting occurred on the morning of 11 March 2009 at a secondary school in Winnenden, Baden-Württemberg, in southwestern Germany, followed by a shootout at a car dealership in nearby Wendlingen. The shooting spree resulted in 16 deaths, including the suicide of the perpetrator, 17-year-old Tim Kretschmer, who had graduated from the school one year earlier. Another 11 persons were injured during the incident. ============ Winnenden was one of the very few incidents over years here in Germany, you know that. JR already was providing enough *material* about German (school) shootings, so - no need to enter into details. Your statistics show much higher figures. With the easy access to weapons in the US, you just do not know who is carrying concealed. Everybody can be *the* one. The one, who's f*cking up. The access here is so much harder. And as statistics show, shootings here are much, much rarer. This just gives a safer feeling to us. Perhaps that's it. People fighting for their 2nd Amendment don't really do a favour to the US. Perhaps that's it?? dudeist skydiver # 3105 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
deltron80 0 #25 November 28, 2011 QuoteCan you tell me what is not wrong with USA? The National Park System is pretty damn awesome. I think that's about it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
