This all started with the question of if. I do not leave my bedroom as a result I do not know about the world around me. Air fares in australia are exceedingly expensive, $14,000 to visit the US.
But what I have seen of pop culture coming out of the US, american people have a somewhat sort of wild west attitude towards life, that their actions are not accountable to their own mental processes.
I've also found in my own experience that being right all of the time will add hot wind to an already inflated hot balloon of ego and with a hot air balloon filled with hot wind it never comes down, conversely the people below seem small and unimportant. A fatal flaw in the human psyche which I have strongly tried to avoid in my own life, emotions are not an influence anymore for me. However I would fear for my own life if I were to visit the US if this were to be so. Should I be so afraid?
It doesn't help the case when a music video like this exists: YouTube
All you need to do is say that I am wrong and I will agree.
But what I have seen of pop culture coming out of the US, american people have a somewhat sort of wild west attitude towards life, that their actions are not accountable to their own mental processes.
I've also found in my own experience that being right all of the time will add hot wind to an already inflated hot balloon of ego and with a hot air balloon filled with hot wind it never comes down, conversely the people below seem small and unimportant. A fatal flaw in the human psyche which I have strongly tried to avoid in my own life, emotions are not an influence anymore for me. However I would fear for my own life if I were to visit the US if this were to be so. Should I be so afraid?
It doesn't help the case when a music video like this exists: YouTube
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My wife once read a book where one of the main characters was a Washington-based Russian military attache by the name Fakov.
Else, I have run into odd names in Estonia like Kuuk (thats d|ck in Swedish).
Else, I have run into odd names in Estonia like Kuuk (thats d|ck in Swedish).
Magnus Magnusson - Wikipedia
Where I live there are an inordinate number of Robert Roberts and William Williams and Hugh Hughes etc....
Where I live there are an inordinate number of Robert Roberts and William Williams and Hugh Hughes etc....
Local dentist hereabouts is Dr Crapo - I'm sure he's very skilled, but dunno why that always gave me a funny feeling
We had a teacher called Mrs Good.
She always wore the shortest of skirts and was very good looking.
She always wore the shortest of skirts and was very good looking.
Can you remember what subject she taught?
Not sure but might have been English.
I know that place. It's located in the county of Middlesex . 🙂.
While working not far from there in Bracknell, UK I had a colleague named Paul Staines. Everyone inevitably referred to him as P. Staines
It's some of the best satire ever, using tremendous humour to exposed the faults in modern society (and not only American).
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