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Post by loopy on Jan 12, 2009 10:13:00 GMT
So we all live in different places right. So i thought we could compare things about where we live with each other. For example here in England we have NHS (free hospital care) where as in america i heard people have to pay for any treatment they have. Correct me if I'm wrong though  |
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Post by Admin on Jan 12, 2009 16:36:22 GMT
* enters picky mode* It's called countries, not lands.  |
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Post by bokkdachicken on Jan 13, 2009 1:03:55 GMT
" 1. Only in America......can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.
2. Only in America......are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.
3. Only in America......do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.
4. Only in America......do people order double cheese burgers, large fries, and a diet coke.
5. Only in America......do banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.
6. Only in America......do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.
7. Only in America......do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to in the first place.
8. Only in America......do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.
9. Only in America.....do we use the word 'politics' to describe the process so well: 'Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'.
10. Only in America......do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.
11. Only in America......can a homeless combat veteran live in a cardboard box and a draft dodger live in the White House. (This was popular when Clinton was in office)"
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Post by Admin on Jan 13, 2009 11:08:00 GMT
#4 sure made me laugh.
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Post by thadudette on Jan 14, 2009 3:34:23 GMT
or example here in England we have NHS (free hospital care) where as in america i heard people have to pay for any treatment they have.  That's awesome! I wish America had that. |
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Post by loopy on Jan 14, 2009 18:23:19 GMT
or example here in England we have NHS (free hospital care) where as in america i heard people have to pay for any treatment they have. That's awesome! I wish America had that. Sometimes i wonder how americans live, having to pay for hospital treatment. I heard it isnt cheap either. * enters picky mode* It's called countries, not lands. Sorry for the dual post i don't yat know how to dual quote. Yeah i know what it is but i don't want to be too serious about everything ;D ;D ;D EDIT: Posts merged - Sirius |
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Post by njayhuang on Jan 14, 2009 23:37:02 GMT
That's awesome! I wish America had that. Sometimes i wonder how americans live, having to pay for hospital treatment. I heard it isnt cheap either. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I heard that the free healthcare isn't that great. Sure it's free, but where will the hospitals get money to get good equipment, hire nurses, stuff like that? * enters picky mode* It's called countries, not lands. Sorry for the dual post i don't yat know how to dual quote. Yeah i know what it is but i don't want to be too serious about everything ;D ;D ;D What I do to multi-quote is click the 'Quote' button on one of the posts, copy it, then click the 'Quote' button on the other post and paste. |
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Post by bokkdachicken on Jan 15, 2009 1:31:55 GMT
That's awesome! I wish America had that. Sometimes i wonder how americans live, having to pay for hospital treatment. I heard it isnt cheap either. there's always health insurance  |
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Post by loopy on Jan 15, 2009 21:51:31 GMT
Sometimes i wonder how americans live, having to pay for hospital treatment. I heard it isnt cheap either. there's always health insurance Yeah but wouldn't you rather pay nothing for treatment? |
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Post by SharkOnDarts on Feb 5, 2009 16:58:23 GMT
there's always health insurance Yeah but wouldn't you rather pay nothing for treatment? Coming from a family that can't afford any health insurance (which means if I get in a wreck or something, I'm as screwed as a Thunder Robot facing down Garuda), I'd be ok with slightly inferior health care if it's free. |
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Post by loopy on Feb 15, 2009 12:18:32 GMT
Someone asked where does the money come from to pay for the Nurses, machines and medicine. It comes from our taxes we pay the government.
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Post by Jay24092 on Jan 4, 2012 21:17:44 GMT
yeah one thing england have is Me
also only in england do you have the best Football Soccer players in the world
Our goverment is a bunch of clowns who could not lead a dog and we have a royal family that dont do anything
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Post by Stove on Jan 4, 2012 21:22:57 GMT
yeah one thing england have is Me also only in england do you have the best Football Soccer players in the world Our goverment is a bunch of clowns who could not lead a dog and we have a royal family that dont do anything That last one reminds me of Obama, the useless little-  |
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Post by Jay24092 on Jan 4, 2012 21:23:46 GMT
I vote we kill all politisions
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Post by Stove on Jan 4, 2012 21:25:40 GMT
Just like Bokkie said:
Politics = Many blood sucking creatures.
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Post by Jay24092 on Jan 4, 2012 21:27:16 GMT
yeah
one thing that is different is that there is more different accents in the UK than in America
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Post by Badog Vi Britania on Jan 5, 2012 3:32:54 GMT
only in americe: where illeagle aliens and criminals have more rights then the regular citizen
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Post by Death Eye on Jan 5, 2012 5:01:14 GMT
Don't even get me started on the government; I'll inevitably go into an obscenely long diatribe about how it should all be destroyed and rebuilt from the ground up, and I'm too busy trying to come up with a grammatically correct translation of some transliterated Japanese to do that at the moment.
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Post by Jay24092 on Jan 5, 2012 19:32:13 GMT
England has Greggs
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Post by Commander Brutus on Jan 12, 2012 23:27:22 GMT
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That's awesome! I wish America had that.
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