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(...) And I have toxic waste! (New Jersey.) Ignore those trees, clear blue lakes, and deer! It's a toxic dump, I tell ya! (...) Agreed. But after a summer in Birmingham (UK), I'm sick of Cadbury's too. German chocolate is hard to beat, IMHO--Dutch (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) What they said. I wasn't saying that Bruce wasn't saying what I said. (Did that make sense? Probably not, but it's bedtime for me.) This is one of the debates around imperialism of any kind--the host culture is affected, and in ways specific (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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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 (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Kinda like the Lone Star franchise out here by the looks of it. Icky at the best of times. Do they have a stiffed Kangaroo head on the wall? A life sized Aborigine manikin in the corner with a Crocodile Dundee hat on? Framed, autographed (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Australian (...) references (...) be (...) I (...) Disneyfication (...) idea (...) entirely (...) Ummmmm, I was indicating that while the rest of the world screams about Americanization and Cultural Imperialism (Don't Buy Our Stuff if that's a (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Sounds like the 'Lonestar steakhouses' [or something similar] over here, although they are designed to represent america's outback area [I think] [Due to possible censoring, I won't give my opinion of this :) ] Unfortunately, at least in my (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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