aeilkema opened this issue on Feb 10, 2005 ยท 69 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Mon, 14 February 2005 at 2:41 PM
I've been a bit distracted by other matters for the last several days, so I haven't checked back in on this thread until now......let's see..........
Sorry i dont normally get involved in tittle tattle but did somebody really say that when Europeans visit the US they never want to leave
Hmmmmm. Since no one said that, you must be arguing with the wind.
What I actually did say was:
In my personal experience, and in the experience of many others that I know -- nearly all of the Germans (another slight mis-attribution on your part: I did not say "Europeans") that I have worked with in the US ended up wanting to remain here. Badly, in some cases.
Interpet the matter as you will......but the circumstances remain the same.
BTW - it's also a bit trickier if one does not speak the language.
I should add though that we do have quite a lot of americans living here in the UK ,Especially funnily enough very famous popstars Madonna Britney and so on.
You are more than welcome to them.
Madonna & Britney. What shining examples for the rest of us.
Madonna must have taken a break from chanting "CH....CH.....CH.......CHYR......NO......BEL!!!!!!" at Kabbalah sessions in order to tour the backstreets of London.
Nothing against London.....too bad that they have to deal with the likes of Madonna. The Royals are embarassing enough by themselves.
Perhaps they're the only ones that can afford to live in out terrible economic systems ?
Could be. It's a possibility.
Sorry but your just wrong the world dislikes america for various reasons and its economic policie is just one of them
The "world" is a very mixed brew.
Personally, I like the taste of the drink in North Carolina. Or in Texas.
In the end, it'll be up to us to fix the mess, anyway.
Our continental European cousins don't like it: but we are the ones who will stop the bad guys. It's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it.
Our British friends are in there, too. So far -- they've been up for the job when and where it's counted. I repeat: so far.
The Aussies, too. Especially the Aussies.
Credit must be given where credit is due.
As for the central point of this thread:
It's a fait accompli. One can complain about the price of software (i.e. -- of doing business) in Europe. But until one is willing to do something about the situation where it counts -- in the voting booth, and in matters of national economic policy -- then it's like griping about the wind blowing.
And it's about as useful.