It might surprise you to learn, OP, that us furriners sometimes spend entire HOURS without talking about you. I know, I know, it boggles the mind.
Without America:
Complaints about Russian and/or Chinese aggression
War in the Middle East, as usual
Climate change (most CO2 emissions aren’t American)
Pollution
Poverty
Fallen human nature in general
In other words, almost everything it complains about now.
Sand in their bathing suits.
Vocabulary.com includes the following in it’s definition of HEGEMON: “If you enjoy an edge over people who would otherwise be your peers, you might be a hegemon”. Try not to read that in your Jeff Foxworthy voice, and then pretend you’re doing standup for a bunch of intellectuals.
OP: They’d be bitching about the same stuff except referring to us as “Columbia”, and griping about how the name was too close to that other country that got the spelling wrong. Typical unimaginative Columbians.
Canada has no room to talk, their entire countries gimmick is that they’re totally not in any way related to the United States. Every single Canadian starts every conversation they have with “Hey I’m <Insert Name> from Canada”.
Huh, I thought every Canadian conversation began with an apology. So I’d believe “Hi, I’m Canadian. Sorry aboot our crazy neighbour, eh.” 
Funny, I’ve never once started any conversation that way. That must just be how certain simpleminded Americans think Canadians start conversation.
We will see how the world responds when China is number one in a decade.
The Middle East. I seem to remember complaints about them that have never ceased in the last 50 years.
They’d complain about not having enough fast food restaurants and not enough trash TV.
Well, that and not having billions of dollars in aid.
Hmmm… we don’t get US foreign aid, and we make our own trash TV, but I’d be happy to complain about a lack of really good series like we see from HBO, Netflix, and Amazon if you like.
And Carl’s Jr. I don’t know what it’s like in the States, but the local version is pretty decent.
On another topic, if I read it correctly, we’re no longer allowed to buy property in NZ? Trying to keep out the Big Mac Munchers, are ye?
I dare say, in the current climate, it surely seems time well invested indeed.
Bordering on prescient.
On the ragged fringes of sheer sparkling brilliance even!
Cite that “the world” spends any significant time complaining about the US? I don’t doubt this is a fantasy held dear by many hyper-conservative Bircher types who are likely drawn to President Trump, but what evidence is there this is in fact true?
Seems like a perfect illustration of the extreme self centered and narcissistic mindset possessed by many nationalistic, isolationist citizens of the US these days.
I’ll go with the premise that there would be no country with the economic and military power the US had between 1918 and present.
If the communists haven’t overrun Europe, there’ll still be too many crowned heads. The UK will remain the dominant force world-wide, assuming it recovers financially from the great war. How conflagrations in the far east (say Japan, China and Korea) will be handled, that I don’t know.
All in all, it will be a war between socialism, emerging global mercantilism, and the old constitutional monarchies.
As I understand it the recent law stops non-residents (except for Australians and Singaporeans, due to some existing free trade agreements) from purchasing most existing homes in NZ.
Non-residents are I believe permitted to purchase land, and to build houses (I think they can also buy apartments off plans); the intent appears to be increasing the amount of housing available rather than having non-residents competing with locals for already built houses.
I don’t know what impact it will *actually *have on the housing market, but it was in part precipitated by unhappiness about foreign buyers who didn’t intend to live here.
As to Big Macs - McDonalds has been in NZ for 40 years (as of June this year). It could be a bit late.
Those are all Americans saying that.
Ooooh, burn.
You’re off by 30 years.
What, I can’t define my own time frame? And it’s a nice round 100 years. :rolleyes: