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Little things you like about the US
Researcher U197087 Started conversation Feb 29, 2008
Just to redress the balance.
The accents, the movies, the people. The scenery.
Little things you like about the US
Crescent Posted Feb 29, 2008
little things - so people are out. Sorry! Sorry! Cheap shot I know (not to mention glass houses etc 
). Scenery, rollercoasters, professional wrestling, some films. Until later....
BCNU - Crescent
Little things you like about the US
Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune Posted Feb 29, 2008
Stingrays (the cars, not the fish)
A couple of inventions here and there...
DEFINITELY the scenery
Amusing cults (I'm deliberately ignoring the less amusing ones, there's enough doom and gloom around atm) to giggle about privately
Brad Pitt 
(although I swear he's actually the world's first cloned human bean... Him and Mr. Redford are getting more and more alike...)
Ben & Jerrys ice cream (they ARE american aren't they?)
Little things you like about the US
swl Posted Feb 29, 2008
The way young & old can party in the streets without any hint of violence.
The politeness of the people - (I'd been warned about NY. What a crock, couldn't have been nicer)
The civic pride of small towns.
Painted water towers.
Watching Little League baseball.
The conductor's uniforms on the trains haven't changed since the days of the Wild West.
Stars & Stripes and white picket fences at most houses.
The evocative wail of a train's horn in the night.
Little things you like about the US
Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune Posted Feb 29, 2008
Joss Whedon...
Little things you like about the US
Still Incognitas, Still Chairthingy, Still lurking, Still invisible, unnoticeable, missable, unseen, just haunting h2g2 Posted Feb 29, 2008
Is there a question in here somewhere?
Little things you like about the US
Secretly Not Here Any More Posted Feb 29, 2008
I'm beginning to see a pattern here...
Oh, but I like beef jerky, the NHL and those chocolates with peanut butter inside.
Little things you like about the US
DaveBlackeye Posted Feb 29, 2008
Music. I can count the bands I like that aren't from the US on the fingers of two-fifths of my hand.
Their politeness and ability to handle confrontation. I'll never forget seeing public screaming matches in NY that in the UK would've ended in someone being glassed, but in NY somehow ended in handshakes.
Little things you like about the US
swl Posted Feb 29, 2008
Decorated mailboxes
Screen doors
Welcome centers at State borders (with loads of "coupons")
The huge trucks lit up at night like Christmas Trees
Turning right on red
Little things you like about the US
Pinwheel Pearl, GURU, Post Book Reviewer, Muse of Japanese Maples and Owlatron's Thundercat Posted Mar 1, 2008
Deep South cuisine and houses with verandahs (sp?) round them.
Their huge interest in the domestic arts, they seem to make stuff fashionable again and then it takes off in Britain.
Little things you like about the US
Steve K. Posted Mar 1, 2008
A lot of coastline: " ... about half of the USA's 90,000 total miles of coastline is in Alaska." (Maybe not so little ...)
OK, but there is some in Texas, also:
http://www.jeffcrossart.com/nautical/Gulf_coast_shrimper_kemah.jpg
My wife & I sailed past these boats for many years, then bought shrimp on the way home.
Little things you like about the US
Just Bob aka Robert Thompson, plugging my film blog cinemainferno-blog.blogspot.co.uk Posted Mar 5, 2008
The fact that the very best of their media gets sifted from the dross and handed to us in Britain, unadulterated and usually pretty promptly.
Little things you like about the US
kuzushi Posted Mar 5, 2008
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Yes, that should be adopted in the UK.
Little things you like about the US
kuzushi Posted Mar 5, 2008
Except perhaps here it should be turning left on red.
Little things you like about the US
novosibirsk - as normal as I can be........ Posted Mar 5, 2008
The REALLY good TV
Hill Street Blues
ER
MASH
Little things you like about the US
Just Bob aka Robert Thompson, plugging my film blog cinemainferno-blog.blogspot.co.uk Posted Mar 5, 2008
DC, Marvel and Dark Horse
Little things you like about the US
Secretly Not Here Any More Posted Mar 11, 2008
Lost. Oh, and House. But then again the best bit in House is Hugh Laurie, and he's English...
Little things you like about the US
A Super Furry Animal Posted Mar 11, 2008
>> Music. I can count the bands I like that aren't from the US on the fingers of two-fifths of my hand. <<
OK, which two?
RF
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Little things you like about the US
- 1: Researcher U197087 (Feb 29, 2008)
- 2: Crescent (Feb 29, 2008)
- 3: Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune (Feb 29, 2008)
- 4: swl (Feb 29, 2008)
- 5: Steve K. (Feb 29, 2008)
- 6: Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune (Feb 29, 2008)
- 7: Ivan the Terribly Average (Feb 29, 2008)
- 8: Still Incognitas, Still Chairthingy, Still lurking, Still invisible, unnoticeable, missable, unseen, just haunting h2g2 (Feb 29, 2008)
- 9: Secretly Not Here Any More (Feb 29, 2008)
- 10: DaveBlackeye (Feb 29, 2008)
- 11: swl (Feb 29, 2008)
- 12: Pinwheel Pearl, GURU, Post Book Reviewer, Muse of Japanese Maples and Owlatron's Thundercat (Mar 1, 2008)
- 13: Steve K. (Mar 1, 2008)
- 14: Just Bob aka Robert Thompson, plugging my film blog cinemainferno-blog.blogspot.co.uk (Mar 5, 2008)
- 15: kuzushi (Mar 5, 2008)
- 16: kuzushi (Mar 5, 2008)
- 17: novosibirsk - as normal as I can be........ (Mar 5, 2008)
- 18: Just Bob aka Robert Thompson, plugging my film blog cinemainferno-blog.blogspot.co.uk (Mar 5, 2008)
- 19: Secretly Not Here Any More (Mar 11, 2008)
- 20: A Super Furry Animal (Mar 11, 2008)
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