 | | Warning: May contain offensive language! Was Re: Some US-like things about LUGNET
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(...) Cheer up, Paul, you may get a chuckle out of this story. Okay, so I'm driving along the road (in Northern California, USA) all properly in my Volvo station wagon with my four- and six-year-old kids safely buckled in their seats, and I'm (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Pax Americana
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(...) The dominant economic power of the time will be subject to 'osmosis',the flow is always both ways. People of surrounding/less economically strong countries will always attempt to migrate to the stronger culture, while the goods flow out. The (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Pax Americana (was Re: Where did you lot spring from?)
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(...) Disneyfication (...) idea (...) entirely (...) Indeed each 'culture' has an obsession with 'home-grown=100% pure' (...) own (...) Some call it Coca cola colonisation. (...) been (...) Australian (...) there (...) One of the guys at work (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Pax Americana (was Re: Where did you lot spring from?)
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(...) Ugh, does that sound familiar... I get asked if everyone in Israel speaks Yiddish (heck no!), if I ride a camel to school (!), and "are you SURE it's not all a big desert?!" Not to mention that I have to defend the IDF* :-) ...First of all I (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | RE: Pax Americana (was Re: Where did you lot spring from?)
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(...) Well, I've never tasted Hershey's, but I do know Cadbury's is miles ahead of Whitmans for taste. [The only good thing I can say for Whitmans is that the boxes would probably be good for storing small lego parts in.] Benjamin Whytcross (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Pax Americana (was Re: Where did you lot spring from?)
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(...) I have coyotes and roadrunners in mine. :-) What myth? Hershey's chocolate sucks. Cadbury's not the best, but it's a darn sight better than most of the junk they sell in America. Bruce (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | RE: offtopic: UScentric Americans, why worry?
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(...) Maybe this discussion was never going to gain anything major, but I'd hope that it might have shown at least 1 person in the US that the world exists outside the US, and that the people who do live outside the US would at least like some (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Semi-permanent on a temporary basis until we decide to come home. Two years is a good number for us at this stage. It's a work transfer/life experience/lets see what the rest of the world is like type thing. (...) Cool, the cogs are (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Guys guys guys! I'm not sure there's a lot to be gained here. The Americans rule the planet by weight of economic resources and the success of their economic/military model. Get used to it. That success has brought a bunch of real advantages for the (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Appologies for the length of this, but I thought I'd list the catalogues I've got. If a catalogue doesn't have a number greater than 1 in the quantity column, or isn't listed, it means that I don't have a complete copy, and would like it. This (...) (25 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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