----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 6:19
AM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: National
Geographic Quiz
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? ;)
>
>
> Yahoo!
Groups Sponsor
>
ADVERTISEMENT
>
>
>
>
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms
of
Service.
Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to
the Yahoo! Terms of
Service.