# Americans Who Think Differently Than I Do

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-who-think-differently-than-i-do/524346>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [January 10, 2010, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-who-think-differently-than-i-do/524346 "2010-01-10T01:57:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-who-think-differently-than-i-do/524346/21 "2010-01-10T02:49:44Z")

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> [@yojimbo](#):
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> Nah. You don’t have the cheese.

Well you see, that’s what makes it even worse; we don’t even have decent food.

We’re surly, dyspeptic French! And they’re surly to start with, so it’s twice the surliness, and with aircraft carriers, tank divisions, and nuclear weapons!

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**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-who-think-differently-than-i-do/524346/22 "2010-01-10T02:49:49Z")

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> [@Zeke\_N.Destroi](#):
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> I’m sorry, I thought my location tag was still up but I see that it isn’t. If I’d realized that I would have said it in my OP.
> 
> I’m Canadian.

And the meek shall inherit the North.

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**Author:** ![Zeke\_N.Destroi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/4af34b/32.png) [@Zeke\_N.Destroi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeke_N.Destroi)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-who-think-differently-than-i-do/524346/23 "2010-01-10T02:50:37Z")

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> [@Clothahump](#):
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> You know, it’s the strangest thing. Every time I read a post like this from some wanker outside the USA, the only think that comes across is total jealousy and sour grapes about the fact they don’t live in the USA.
> 
> Eat your heart out, loser.

Yup. I envy those who revel in living in a failed and delusional republic.

Yup, yup, yup.

P.S. Wanker? How very Texan of [del]you[/del] y’all.

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**Author:** ![Zeke\_N.Destroi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/4af34b/32.png) [@Zeke\_N.Destroi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeke_N.Destroi)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-who-think-differently-than-i-do/524346/24 "2010-01-10T02:52:23Z")

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> [@VinylTurnip](#):
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> See now, that’s just the syrup talking.

Lol 😃 Nice one!

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**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-who-think-differently-than-i-do/524346/25 "2010-01-10T02:52:30Z")

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Let’s raise their rent.

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**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-who-think-differently-than-i-do/524346/26 "2010-01-10T02:52:45Z")

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> [@Zeke\_N.Destroi](#):
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> P.S. Wanker? How very Texan of [del]you[/del] y’all.

Real Texans would never say a word like “wanker.”

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**Author:** ![Zeke\_N.Destroi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/4af34b/32.png) [@Zeke\_N.Destroi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeke_N.Destroi)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-who-think-differently-than-i-do/524346/27 "2010-01-10T02:53:59Z")

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> [@ExTank](#):
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> After reading the OP, I have come to a staggering and sickening revelation: we are become…  
> …the French!

Nah, they have humane labour laws and UHC. You’re light years from being french.

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**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-who-think-differently-than-i-do/524346/28 "2010-01-10T03:00:57Z")

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> [@Zeke\_N.Destroi](#):
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> Nah, they have humane labour laws and UHC. You’re light years from being french.

Yeah, the beatings I never receive, the overtime I’m paid on time, without quibble, the training, tools and vehicle I’m provided to do my job, the tuition reimbursement I’ve received, the vacation and sick time, health insurance, none of that is covered under our labor laws.

Oh wait, maybe that’s because I was taught that to advance myself and earn a better living, I need to quit whining about social injustice, and to go out and get myself educated, and apply myself to my job with a decent work ethic.

But I’m sure I could be an internet loser if I applied myself, and then I too could sit around whining about how much my life/job/country sucks, and how the government needs to do everything for me.

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**Author:** ![ivn1188](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e480ec/32.png) [@ivn1188](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivn1188)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-who-think-differently-than-i-do/524346/29 "2010-01-10T03:06:32Z")

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> [@Zeke\_N.Destroi](#):
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> Except for: Korea (a place you had no reason to be)

You know what I love best? I love a big helping of [irony and poor education](http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=history/KoreaWar/valour).

The rest of your post is pretty much the sort of simplistic drivel that I have come to expect from our new global trend of sloppy dichotomous thinking and shallow analysis, mixed in with a healthy dose of unexamined nationalism.

Carry on; you’ll make a fine addition to Great Debates or MPSIMS.

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**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-who-think-differently-than-i-do/524346/30 "2010-01-10T03:16:50Z")

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> [@Zeke\_N.Destroi](#):
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> I hope you all enjoy watching “the land of the free and home of the brave” turn into a third world laughing stock (\*laughingstock \*is one word) as your power and influence spill to the ground like Onan’s seed because you are too fucking lazy and complacent to actually do anything about it. HAHAHAHAHA!
> 
> And while your country, your credibility and your potency sag like a [del]septagenarian’s[/del] septuagenarian tits you sit contented to debate: death panels, whether the Bible should be taught as science and of course if your President can legally be president \<----hey assholes, the one who prece[del]e[/del]ded him couldn’t legally be President either, he demonstrably stole at least one election but served eight years anyway and would have served another four at least if you fucking dingleberry[del]'[/del]s (apostrophes: learn how to use them) hadn’t imposed term limits because FDR proved that more than two terms was a travesty. Clinton faced impeachment for a hummer but Bush gets a pass. Good move, slugs.
> 
> …
> 
> Except for: Korea (a place you had no reason to be), Vietnam (a place you had no reason to be), Iraq \<– sorry your objectives were accomplished and so you left with a self-satisfied grin. But like a drunken prick who gets tossed from a party for shitting in the host’s Wii you came back later with friends (oh, and what a posse you formed). And you and that posse are about to fuck off again after creating a worse mess than there was to begin with. Oh yeah guys, you’re fucking cool. No really, you are. You are!
> 
> And I know how much you hated to see foreigners flying planes into your country and killing 3000 innocent people. I hated it too; 9/11 was a reprehensible act of cowardice.
> 
> But I didn’t show my disgust at such actions by sending foreigners in planes (and humvees and tanks and LAVs and Christ knows what else) to their country - sorry, a neighbouring innocent country - to kill fucking near 30 times that many innocents. Nor did I deride those countries who chose not to join in the [del]mailce[/del] malice and slaughter.
> 
> Your country is a hypocritical sham of what it [del]proports[/del] purports to be, you’re [del]arrgoant[/del] arrogant without cause, you’re bullies and you’re PROUD of it.
> 
> So each and everyone of you backwoods, backwards, slobber-monkeys can eat my ass… I’ll even shave it for you 😃

In closing, next time you want to express your own superiority, you may want to make certain that you don’t come off looking like a barely literate moron. Perhaps your next rant will be about the failure of the Canadian education system to teach you proper spelling and grammar?

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-who-think-differently-than-i-do/524346/31 "2010-01-10T03:17:14Z")

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> [@Zeke\_N.Destroi](#):
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> Yup. I envy those who revel in living in a failed and delusional republic.

Didn’t fail just yet. Might. Check back every five years or so.

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**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-who-think-differently-than-i-do/524346/32 "2010-01-10T03:19:07Z")

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OP boy is from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

For the record, not all of us Canadians are demented. At least not so strikingly.

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**Author:** ![Zeke\_N.Destroi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/4af34b/32.png) [@Zeke\_N.Destroi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeke_N.Destroi)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-who-think-differently-than-i-do/524346/33 "2010-01-10T03:21:19Z")

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[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:19, topic:524346”]

The first thing that comes to mind when I read something like the OP is that it’s yet another clueless overgeneralizer who thinks that there are only two ways to think.

Dude, you have absolutely no idea what the average American really is – largely because “average” is a myth. By the way, my tax adviser recommended that I incorporate my bookstore, so I now own one of those corporations you despise so much. Funny, it hasn’t made me want to invade anyone or kill anyone yet. Hmmm. Maybe I just need to give it some time.

And somehow, the fact that I’m a gun-owner hasn’t made me disbelieve in evolution. I have voted for both republicans and democrats - sometimes on the same ballot. I’ve voted for independents, greens, and libertarians, too. I think Bush Jr. and Clinton _both_ should have ended up impeached and removed from office. In the 30+ years since I reached voting age, I haven’t found one single solitary politician that agrees with me 100%. Why is it that I can realize that not all Canadians are alike, but you can’t realize that all of us south of your border aren’t all alike?

Moron.  
[/QUOTE]

I’m going to quote this in one whole chunk 'cause I’m too lazy to break it up.

1)Clearly I was talking corporations that register on non-marsupial radar. Some noodnink owning a bookstore hardly qualifies. But if you want to be counted amongst them for purposes of self-agrandizement feel free.

2)Never said anything about “average” Americans. I specifically aimed it at americans who don’t agree with me. Don’t accuse me of tarring the average American when I believe that the “average American” - if such a thing there be - dislikes what their country has become as much as I do. If I’m wrong so be it and the “average American” can feel free to feel pitted.

3)Never mentionned gun-ownership and sure as hell not in connection with evolution. I live in rural Manitoba bud, every 3rd person owns at least one gun. \<— no, I can’t provide a cite for exactly 1/3 of rural Manitobans own firearms, I pulled it out of my ass but a great many of us do.

4)Didn’t say I agree 100% with every (hell with any) Canadian politician either. Just that I virulently loathe America’s actions during the last 60 years with especial emphasis placed on the last 30 or so.

1. It is a sad testament to my nation that not all (but thankfully the majority)Canadians think the American way is wrong-headed and evil. I deride your country for poisoning mine through osmosis. I weep for mine for allowing it.

6)I never said all Yanks are the same (that would be racist if “American” constituted a race. I specified the ones who don’t agree with me (It’s hidden in the title). Are you saying all Americans agree that Yankmerica has been a bastion of wonderment and global joy? Now who’s being a generalist?

7)I absolutely love independant booksellers! I truly do hope that your business thrives - or at least does well enough that you can continue to make a living off of what I consider to be a [del]valuable[/del] vital service.

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**Author:** ![Zeke\_N.Destroi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/4af34b/32.png) [@Zeke\_N.Destroi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeke_N.Destroi)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-who-think-differently-than-i-do/524346/34 "2010-01-10T03:22:23Z")

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> [@BorgHunter](#):
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> It all started when our soldiers started wearing berets.

Don’t know if etiquette allows it but I declare you the thread winner.

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**Author:** ![Zeke\_N.Destroi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/4af34b/32.png) [@Zeke\_N.Destroi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeke_N.Destroi)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-who-think-differently-than-i-do/524346/35 "2010-01-10T03:27:01Z")

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> [@ExTank](#):
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> Yeah, the beatings I never receive, the overtime I’m paid on time, without quibble, the training, tools and vehicle I’m provided to do my job, the tuition reimbursement I’ve received, the vacation and sick time, health insurance, none of that is covered under our labor laws.
> 
> Oh wait, maybe that’s because I was taught that to advance myself and earn a better living, I need to quit whining about social injustice, and to go out and get myself educated, and apply myself to my job with a decent work ethic.
> 
> But I’m sure I could be an internet loser if I applied myself, and then I too could sit around whining about how much my life/job/country sucks, and how the government needs to do everything for me.

Yes, whining about social injustice is so 1776.

This is exemplary of the attitude that has lead 'Mericaville to the desperate straits they’ve dragged the rest of the fucking world into. And thanks for it 🙂

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**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-who-think-differently-than-i-do/524346/36 "2010-01-10T03:28:38Z")

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Heh-heh, he said, “Onan’s seed”. Heh-heh.

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**Author:** ![Zeke\_N.Destroi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/4af34b/32.png) [@Zeke\_N.Destroi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeke_N.Destroi)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-who-think-differently-than-i-do/524346/37 "2010-01-10T03:30:33Z")

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> [@KarlGauss](#):
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> OP boy is from Winnipeg, Manitoba.
> 
> For the record, not all of us Canadians are demented. At least not so strikingly.

Not from Winnipeg. Though give us a few more years and we’ll rival them for random beatings and daylight muggings 😉

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**Author:** ![ivn1188](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e480ec/32.png) [@ivn1188](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivn1188)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-who-think-differently-than-i-do/524346/38 "2010-01-10T03:35:49Z")

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Why don’t you use the multi-quote button, you loathsome sot? Just hit the button for each post and respond all at once instead of driving up your post count.

And quit using the smileys. No one actually likes you. It’s like saying “Man I hate niggers!” at an NAACP meeting and then giving everyone a nice big grin to let em know we’re all just having a friendly discussion.

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**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-who-think-differently-than-i-do/524346/39 "2010-01-10T03:38:45Z")

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Well, it’s like this: there are dicks, pussies, and assholes…

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**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-who-think-differently-than-i-do/524346/40 "2010-01-10T03:40:42Z")

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> [@Clothahump](#):
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> You know, it’s the strangest thing. Every time I read a post like this from some wanker outside the USA, the only think that comes across is total jealousy and sour grapes about the fact they don’t live in the USA.

Having a nice house doesn’t make you a good neighbor.

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