# Silly things I miss from the US

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-things-i-miss-from-the-us/438532>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 21, 2008, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-things-i-miss-from-the-us/438532 "2008-02-21T07:35:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-things-i-miss-from-the-us/438532/101 "2008-02-27T07:53:34Z")

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Real toilets, reliable air conditioning, clean water, food I actually look forward to eating, cold beverages, great big bookstores, adult entertainment actually worthy of the name, and the idea that safety, comfort, and prosperity are perfectly normal things that should be available to all instead of nebulous “sins” of some kind or the province of an extremely tiny elite.

Oh, I was supposed to list _silly_ things? Sorry 'bout that. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-things-i-miss-from-the-us/438532/102 "2008-02-27T08:04:44Z")

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Where, out of curiosity, are you, **DKW**? (I’m guessing not Hawaii)

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**Author:** ![Skara\_Brae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Skara\_Brae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skara_Brae)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-things-i-miss-from-the-us/438532/103 "2008-02-27T18:40:53Z")

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[QUOTE=Kyla]  
You can listen to BBC World Service on the internet. And I think if you have some satellite services you can get BBC News and Al Jazeera and whatever.

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My husband watches BBC World News every night on BBC - America (standard extended basic cable now, I think). He thinks its less slanted then US news.

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