JimLes
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When they're idiots, all the time.
Sanders starting to kick some HC... whatever
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When they're idiots, all the time.
NAOS
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random questions (pls answer):
If you got to travel anywhere in the world right now, where would it be? how long would you go for?
(do you really live in Calgary?)
tia
Wasn't for me but I want to answer.
I'm a dream scenario is live in a very different culture for an extended period (2+ years). Big City Brazil, rural Japan and rural S Africa are the most attractive locations to me.
Spain and Austraila round out my top 5 but those two is more of a visit. Couple months maybe.
I'm with you on the rural areas but after living in L.A. for 5 years I have had my fill of big cities. I would love Manaus, Brazil.
Miggs
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I've always wondered. What is your avatar from?
♪alt13
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I would build an RV Zeppelin with an open air deck on the back where I could smoke and drink scotch. I would spend the rest of my life cruising the clouds.
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i'll let the man answer himself-- but it's not like the man has spent his whole life here. He was born and raised in the Balkans before moving to Canada in his young teens.
And yes, the man lives 300km south of me. We bros.
fgcamel
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Apparently Hillary Clinton will appear on the next episode of Broad City.
Broad City, you've let me down. But this is also kinda funny--Hillary needs them young peeps to switch allegiances.
Just watched it. Actually thought it was really good. Still don't see many young people voting for her though. I was thinking a while ago I really wish the republicans had a legitimate woman candidate like nikki haley running, it would be fascinating to see how hillary would perform without the drawcard of being the only female.
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I would go to either st barts or hawaii or Australia or new Zealand
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As for big city brazil... I have been to sau paulo brazil (bigger than New York city... Iirc its the 7th largest city in the world) and it's a total ****hole. Smells like sewage, noisy as ****, super polluted, bums everywhere, graffitti, garbage, people living in shed like structures with blankets for walls and dirty floors with no plumbing.
It was horrible and I never want to go there ever again
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I stayed for a week (for work) in a place called pocos de caldas brazil. It was awesome. Allot like park city.
I've lived in areas where the homes and smell is like that. Not on nearly as large of a scale as big city Brazil of course. But learning the language, culture and their view on the world would be a tremendous experience.
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Well your dream should be easy to achieve then.
You want to live in big city brazil for a few years. Hell I bet you could live in one of them ****holes in sau paulo brazil for 2 years and it would only cost you a couple thousand.
Can't imagine it would be that great to live that way but whatever floats your boat bro
Well if I was on a hole like that as my residence I'd really only sleep there. Imagine all the adventures,, things to try, see and learn in an environment like that.
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Ya and I'm being hyperbolic anyway. It's not like those ****holes agree the only places to stay in sau paulo. There are tons of nice places too.
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rural Japan is beautiful beyond your comprehension, and the people are nicer than any other place I've ever been to. Yes, Even to Americans.
In my experiences over seas I haven't encountered that many negative reactions because I am American. Probably because I wasn't an insufferable jerk. I treated people with respect and if I offended thru ignorance of their customs I apologized and explained why I did what I did. Normally it lead to them appreciating me and my ways more and me appreciating them and their ways more.
Joe Bagadonuts
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This has been my experience too. I've been fortunate to do a lot of travel and I can literally only think of one mildly negative cultural experience. I can think of many, many positive ones.
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I'm not surprised.
Most counties I have been to it seems like the people there are nicer than Americans and I always seem to hear the same sentiment from other Americans who have traveled as well.
Maybe it's partly because allot of the time when you travel you are on vacation and in a better mood in the first place so people seem nicer and partly cause Americans are assholes.
I mean trump having a chance (and a pretty good chance too) to be president says allot
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The amount of Japanese civilian casualties during WWII would merit a very well-understood grudge across the entire nation-- but they interestingly don't roll like that. Speaks to their people. I can't tell you how floored I was. I expected the old people to look at me with disdain-- nope, they were probably the nicest ones. The same people who had brothers and parents killed from allied bombing attacks.
America is dead-set on scapegoating Muslims after a relatively paltry attack during 9/11, comparatively. Think about how long it would take for Americans to have normalized relations with Japan if they experienced the same extent of a bombing campaign.