What Makes America Great?

[GoVegan]

OK so I watched the Doug Stanhope video and the guy is hilarious. I was enjoying the videos on his webpage until I found this one. Although it is humorous, it is also a bit scary to me that some people actually fell for this prank and gave the guy a buck. What the hell is wrong with some people?

[GoVegan]

While browsing youtube for Doug Stanhope stuff I found this and just about died when I watched it! See if you can spot Frosted towards the end of the clip!

[BlueSaint]

All restaurants and stores you have, everything else sucks.

*Ragemachine wakes up*

[dpete]

Calvin and Hobbes

[squeezyjohn]

Saying to themselves over and over again that they are great until they believe it

[squeezyjohn]

Actually strike that - it comes across as xenophobic from a Brit and you know I'm not that bad - you guys just don't have enough genuine cynicism for my tastes - I love you all anyway. However - Sesame Street used to be brilliant in the 70s and 80s. I've been showing my kids clips on youtube.

Take this for example. Genius. Funny. American. Total family entertainment which I get as comedy and so do my 5 and 3 year olds. If people in America made this then that makes America great.

[Ansel]

Actually strike that - it comes across as xenophobic from a Brit and you know I'm not that bad - you guys just don't have enough genuine cynicism for my tastes - I love you all anyway.

We'd probably call it Pretty Good America.

[dpete]

Saying to themselves over and over again that they are great until they believe it

Actually strike that - it comes across as xenophobic from a Brit and you know I'm not that bad - you guys just don't have enough genuine cynicism for my tastes - I love you all anyway. However - Sesame Street used to be brilliant in the 70s and 80s. I've been showing my kids clips on youtube.

Take this for example. Genius. Funny. American. Total family entertainment which I get as comedy and so do my 5 and 3 year olds. If people in America made this then that makes America great.

Actually, speaking as one looking at all this from the inside, your first point is much more appropriate than not.

[squeezyjohn]

OK I remembered another thing I think makes America great:

American football - any nation that can take the basic premis of getting to a goal with a ball and invent so many rules that it becomes more stilted and complicated than a chess match yet still give the Superbowl so much pomp and ceremony deserves a medal. Canadians - you don't get out of this one; Canadian football is just American Football with enough changes to say you made some changes - the game is the same boring charade.

Take a look at this clip to see what American Football might be like if you just showed some thinking outside the box. We call it rugby and it's an exciting game.

If you want real manly excitement see Aussie rules - they know what to do with a football type sport - keep it open and it becomes truly exciting.

[Ansel]

Fleetwood Mac

[deadohsky]

Despite how it seems to be going more recently, I think the inherent freedom that the country was founded on to be the best thing about it.

[Bigblue1]

Despite how it seems to be going more recently, I think the inherit freedom that the country was founded on to be the best thing about it.

Yeah the inherent everything was great, but sadly No longer is...... I still like fireworks tho.......

[EricHill78]

Yeah the inherent everything was great, but sadly No longer is...... I still like fireworks tho.......

I'm like a little kid when it comes to fireworks no lie. Down in South Florida where I was born and raised in Nash country we would go to the beach and they would shoot them off barges. Now I lived in F'ed up San Antonio where there will be no shows due to a fireworks ban.. Not enough rain yada yada. I miss home sometimes.

[deadohsky]

Fireworks are great. I'll never forget riding my bike to the stalls as a kid and getting as many as i could.

[RobsanX]

Fireworks are great. I'll never forget riding my bike to the stalls as a kid and getting as many as i could.

I used to love buying fireworks when I was a kid! I would always buy Black Cats, and pop them one at a time to make them last as long as I could!