see
thats just what i mean
til now
i had no idea denmark is a communist country
--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Jesper Nielsen" <jesniel@i...> wrote:
> I have seen this a my work, and I found it on the internet:
>
http://www.twistedmatrix.com/users/jh/wikifarm/pub/MoinMoin/J_f
crgenHermann/attachments/twa2a.gif
>
> No comments.
>
> Jesper
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: acroorca2002
> To: BoundaryPoint@y...
> Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 4:48 AM
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: National Geographic Quiz
>
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Karolis B." <kbajoraz@y...> wrote:
> > One more encounter with American cluelessness today. I
> wanted to cash
> > a check form Canary Islands. The banker failed to
understand
> the
> > difference between dollars and euros as different
currencies.
>
> karolis
> you need a foreign exchange bank for that kind of transaction
>
> taking it to an ordinary commercial bank is just as pointless
as
> taking it to a food bank or a blood bank
>
> but in general i think gratuitous bashing of yanks or any other
> peoples is foolish too
> no matter how seemingly clueless some of us or them may
be
>
> the national geographics society performs this hand wringing
> ritual every year or so
> to drum up interest & subscriptions
> & wallow in their own self importance
>
> it is entirely predictable of them to do this
>
> & of course yanks generally are just as out of touch as they
say
>
> wouldnt you be if everyone accepted your money & spoke your
> language & ate your hamburgers etc
>
> but to continue extrapolating & piling up anecdotal
confirmations
> & stereotypical presumptions from these data
> well
> you wild & crazy guys are free to compound the folly as much
as
> you like
> but cluelessness is all that any of it is
>
>
> A few
> > weeks ago I had an American tell me she wouldn't want to
live
> in
> > Canada because the dollar is so low there! (1USD=1.5CAD
or
> smthg).
> > This summer this American guy in a Gatwick Express train
> was amazed
> > at how in Germany he used to get more "German dollars"
> when he
> > exchanged the American ones there, so it's good, he got
more
> buying
> > power!, but then he thought of it and added that the things
were
> > also "twice as expensive". Canada runs an agressive
> advertisement
> > campaign in American travel magazines. One loose qoute
> would be "you
> > will get $150 for $100 here, when you exchange!". Try saying
> "you
> > will get 160 pounds for 100 euros!!!" in a european travel ad
> like it
> > was something exciting :))) btw, what does that tell us of the
> > Candians's views of Americans? ;)
>
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