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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2015 23:29:12 GMT
just an aside and pointless comment but i am so tired of people posting statements and then adding a one word command to DISCUSS i just think, are you (general you) the puppet master? commanding your minions to entertain you with conflicting arguments? It was an invitation to discuss the topic, not a command. maybe in the eyes of the beholder? DISCUSS!!
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anniebygaslight
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Post by anniebygaslight on Jun 30, 2015 5:31:01 GMT
It was an invitation to discuss the topic, not a command. maybe in the eyes of the beholder? DISCUSS!! Hilarious.
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Post by lucyg on Jun 30, 2015 5:36:27 GMT
Wow. How did I miss this thread before?
(1) OP: if you don't see a thread already about a subject you wish to discuss, feel free to start one. Please don't wait 24 hours just to see if the sucky Americans get around to it, and then when you finally do start a thread, turn it into a passive-aggressive swipe at us.
(2) all offended overseas peas: I just read all 3+ pages in one sitting. As far as I could see, only one -- count 'em, one -- American pea said she really wasn't interested in the Tunisian terror attack, and if you can't already tell, she's not your average pea. Everyone else told you why the subject did get a little shunted aside due to our extremely news-heavy week, but we did hear about it and we are concerned about it and heartbroken over all the deaths. If you're still wondering why we didn't start a thread, see #1 above.
(3) really?? You want to pursue the idea that Americans aren't as well educated as the British? Or that we aren't as well traveled as you? Do you get that we can travel to a warm, beachy resort area without leaving the U.S. and that we don't have 30+ other countries within a two-hour flight distance, most of which are cheaper to visit than London?
I realize that sometimes it seems as though some American peas just like to complain about Europeans, and I'm sure it gets old. They are idiots. I love having peas from all over the world here, and I especially love the UK of all the places in the world. But geez, I wish I'd never opened this thread.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2015 7:19:19 GMT
I'd be curious to know the numbers of visitors from the UK that travel to the USA...and wonder how it compares with people in the US travelling to the UK.
I'm really not surprised that the "average person on the street" travels "abroad" a lot...hell...when you can take a train from London to Paris and arrive in 3 hrs...why wouldn't people be travelling abroad? If I'm driving south in GA, I wouldn't even be out of my own state in 3 hrs and you guys are in a whole different country. I don't really think you can fairly compare "travelling abroad" from the US (as US residents would) vs. "travelling abroad" for someone in the UK or the rest of Europe.
With that said, I'm a little offended that anyone thinks that because the victims of the terror last week don't matter to us because they're not US Citizens, or vacationing in a place frequented by US citizens repulses me. I give zero shits what their nationality was.
Not sure where your odd ideas of British nationals travelling abroad just meaning a three hour trip to Paris, or somewhere similar, comes from. That's just somewhere to go for a couple of days break! Travelling abroad for Brits on a two/three week holiday means going to places like Mexico, Peru, California and Florida, Hawaii, Dominican Republic, Caribbean, Bali, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and lots of other long haul international flights. A trip to New York is considered a long weekend away! A lot of our regional airports have direct flights to these sort of places. Then destinations like the Canary Islands off West Africa, Greece, Spain, Cyprus, Malta and more can be added to the list! So 'travelling abroad' can definitely be more than fairly compared with US citizens 'travelling abroad' from the US!! ETA: 3.8 million British nationals visited the USA in the past twelve months and just under 3 million US citizens visited the UK according to the most recent figures I could find. I want to move to "Europe"!!! I love the idea of going abroad for a couple of weeks to say the Canary Islands, Cyprus or Spain! I am not picky on the country I live in. Needs to be a Germanic/Latin language as those are the only ones I am good with. Learning cyrillic is not going to happen so I need Romanized lettering to read and write. Italy sounds good. Malta, Spain, Portugal, France, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium or Luxembourg would work well.Ok dream over!
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