Only in America do we...

 

Drive on parkways and park on driveways.

 

Use the word politics whereas poli is latin for many and a tick is a bloodsucking creature

 

Order a double cheeseburger large fries and a DIET coke!

 

Keep adding!

 

 

Buy lawn chairs for use at the pool or beach.

 

 

wonder why we have a huge population

 

 

Spend $12 on a bad movie and then pay 9$ a small popcorn and a watered down drink.

 

Watch a fighter get beat up and blooded in the ring get inspired to go train.

 

Chear for that jerk Tyson

 

Think everyone in Canada drives a snowmobile and live in an igloo

 

Assume that basketball was invented by an american

 

 

Think that Canadians are just lumberjacks and curlers

 

Wonder if Canadians have running water up there

 

Don't know who Da Vinci, Montesquie, and Robespierre are...but are certain they were American!

 

 

Canadians don't live in igloos??? OMG, I'm a fool Anyways here are some I can think of...(obviously some of these aren't exclusive to us but we sure are known for it)

 

Only as Americans do we -

 

Use yards and gallons instead of litres and metres.

 

Take up 7% of the world's population and use 50% of the world's resources (that's some f'ed up sh*t)

 

Think that Bruce Lee was the ultimate martial arts bad a$$

 

Get married early in a society where half or over half of all first-time marriages end in divorce.

 

Think that our citizenship comes with a free lunch anywhere and everywhere.

 

Pay Canadians like Jim Carrey $20 million to make faces for an hour and a half while we pay jackdoodoobeans to people who are committed to protecting our streets.

 

Let people make mucho money even from a jail cell b/c they can write books.

 

Let people sue others for just about anything.

 

Place ultimate worship and admiration towards thinness yet still be one of (if not the number one) fattest nations in the world (maybe that's why).

 

Breed a whole new generation of cutthroat telemarketers and insurance adjusters.

 

Let people screw up over and over in life and still allow them second chances to go back to school to develop a new and promising career.

 

Think that fortune cookies were invented in China.

 

ok ok so I notice that these are all not meant to be funny but they are just things I noticed, hehehe.

 

Btw on the subject of overpopulation here. What overpopulation?? I don't get it. You drive out into the middle of Nevada or Montana or Iowa and there is nothing there, nobody. Set up camp in the midwest and you will never go hungry with all those corn fields. Maybe we just need to spread out a bit :razz:

 

 

 

 

Sorry I'm not following the proper format for this thread, but this seemed relevant...

 

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/columnists/dave_barry/2822019.htm

Chh:

 

Funny funny!! I love Dave Barry, he is a hilarious individual.

Eating grits.

 

Have people called celebrities, whom we do not know as rolemodels.

 

Invented stupid boy-bands. Somebody help me!!

 

Blame T.V. for irresponsible parenting.

 

Putting millions of dollars in a never ending "Drug War"

 

 

Try to act anything but what we are:

 

example: rich white boys in the suburbs acting "ghetto". Let's drop them on a street corner in Harlem and see how long they last