Comments on: I Know You Didn’t Ask, But I Think Your President Sucks

By: Bob L

Bob L — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:27:00 +0000

I like to tweak my Canadien friends by telling them that I judge a country to be *third world* by their commonly used currency.

It is not a third world country if all curency to the right of the decimal point is coin, and all to the left is paper ($1 paper, $.50 coin).

Not that I really beleive this, but it gets a fun reaction. But being the opinionated a** that I am, I really hate when a country does not follow the above rules. I want no more than a dollars worth of change in my pocket. I want simple rules when paying for something. The rest of the world wants us to switch to the metric (decimal) system of measurement, but won’t switch to the obviously superior (decimal) american currency system! ^_^

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This is My Rant | Lives of Wander — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:42:30 +0000

[...] the last post I wrote, I talked about the influence of American politics on the rest of the world. While writing that [...]

By: Kango Suz

Kango Suz — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 05:13:27 +0000

When I’ve traveled abroad (all of which has been since the 9/11 events) I’ve always ended up getting in an interesting conversation with someone who isn’t a US citizen who knows more about the US voting process than most US citizens and has honest questions about why the US does things the way it does. I’m personally a big fan of the process, so I’ve always tried to focus on this instead of the specific people involved. However, in a conversation with a Canadian waitress about paper vs coin for $1 she had a quote that is just to classic not to share (ostensibly she was talking about how coins for $1 worked better practically):
“Americans seem so committed to continuing to do things that don’t work very well just because they’re used to doing them that way…”

Thanks as always for your cool posts.

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:10:22 +0000

I was living in Europe in ‘04 and on a trip to Portugal we met up with some Brits. I was discussing Bush and how I didn’t like him and wouldn’t be voting for him with one of these Brits (I always felt like I needed to make a point of letting the Europeans I met know that I wasn’t a Bush supporter) when a friend I was traveling with tried to shush me. She later told me that it was “unpatriotic” to criticize the president in front of foreigners–and that was pretty much the end of that friendship.

By: matthew

matthew — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:30:50 +0000

I know you didn’t ask, but I like reading content I can’t find in other locations. More info on world travel, and less on politics please.
And yeah, I know I sound rude, but I’m related to you, so niceties are unnecessary.

By: Gregory

Gregory — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:15:55 +0000

The American people elect the most powerful person in the WORLD. Interesting how that works. Even more so when you consider that the other people the president considers to be too powerful are usually not elected at all.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:43:26 +0000

While we were in Mexico, there were some Europeans - Brits mostly, who were rude to us simply because of George W. Bush. It was so stupid and so were they.