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RE: Soul-searching question
March 14, 2012 at 11:55 am
That might have to do with knocking at the door being a better device for a sitcom RS.
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RE: Soul-searching question
March 14, 2012 at 11:56 am
(March 14, 2012 at 11:49 am)Rokcet Scientist Wrote: In 'Friends' they had no doorbells. In '90210' they had no doorbells. In 'All in the family' they had no doorbells. In the 'Cosby show' they had no doorbells. In 'Lucy' they had no doorbells...
Need I go on?
I have no idea. They also never went to take a shit on those shows. Do you think Americans don't shit? I mean, we don't shit, but when we do we ring a little bell.
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RE: Soul-searching question
March 14, 2012 at 11:56 am
How american of me would it be to learn to spell RS, not very, that shit sounds downright un-american.
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RE: Soul-searching question
March 14, 2012 at 11:57 am
(March 14, 2012 at 11:53 am)aleialoura Wrote: Then they would ask for tea, and look at me all crazy when I brought them a tall glass of tea, packed with ice and a straw.
"I wanted HOT tea." Yeah that would confuse the hell out of us.
(March 14, 2012 at 11:53 am)aleialoura Wrote: Well, then why didn't you say so? And I know for a fact they tell you about tipping on the way over here, and just because our money doesn't have Darwin on it, I still want it, please!
/rant. Tipping? What is this madness? Extra money? For cold tea?
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RE: Soul-searching question
March 14, 2012 at 12:00 pm
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In America, servers are only paid $2.13 an hour. The servers here literally live on tips, the hourly money goes all to taxes. Sometimes I would get a check for 8 bucks, and sometimes I would get a check that said "THIS IS NOT A CHECK".
Hot tea is available upon request 
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RE: Soul-searching question
March 14, 2012 at 12:03 pm
(March 14, 2012 at 12:00 pm)aleialoura Wrote: In America, servers are only paid $2.13 an hour. The servers here literally live on tips, the hourly money goes all to taxes. Sometimes I would get a check for 8 bucks, and sometimes I would get a check that said "THIS IS NOT A CHECK".
Hot tea is available upon request
Yeah here we barely tip. I think I once gave the pizza guy like 30p cos he ran out of change. But if I ever go to the US I know what to do 
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RE: Soul-searching question
March 14, 2012 at 12:04 pm
(March 14, 2012 at 11:49 am)Rokcet Scientist Wrote: In 'Friends' they had no doorbells. In '90210' they had no doorbells. In 'All in the family' they had no doorbells. In the 'Cosby show' they had no doorbells. In 'Lucy' they had no doorbells...
Need I go on?
TV =/= reality. Even "reality" TV.
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RE: Soul-searching question
March 14, 2012 at 12:05 pm
(March 14, 2012 at 12:04 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: TV =/= reality. Even "reality" TV.
Your saying there is a difference between TV and reality? I doubt this.
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RE: Soul-searching question
March 14, 2012 at 12:10 pm
I don't have a doorbell. But I also don't answer the door when people knock either. This has nothing to do with my roommate and I being American and everything to do with us hating the seething mass of humanity that surrounds our little house.
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RE: Soul-searching question
March 14, 2012 at 12:12 pm
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(March 14, 2012 at 11:53 am)aleialoura Wrote: Why don't Europeans like ice in their beverages? I know when I worked downtown, I served a lot of Brits, and they never wanted ice in shit, which is really fucking weird.
Hellooo! Brits ain't Europeans! As they themselves will be the first to tell you (of course they can't read maps).
Quote:I would tell them it was free and everything,
FYI: something being free is important to Americans, Scots, Swiss, and Dutch. Not to Brits. 'Stiff upper lip' and all.
Quote:and they just turned up their little noses, and said, "No, no. That's quite alright. No ice for me, than you."
WTF? Ice makes shit cold, and it's better cold. Everyone knows that!
Sure, you ice stuff to numb the atrocious taste in its natural state...
Quote:Then they would ask for tea, and look at me all crazy when I brought them a tall glass of tea, packed with ice and a straw.
"I wanted HOT tea."
Well, then why didn't you say so?
They did! They asked for tea. Tea in its natural state is steamingly hot.
If they want ice tea they would ask for ice tea. But you assumed they wanted ice tea because it's a knee-jerk American reflex to kill all taste with ice. You yanks chuck ice in everything. Regardless! You don't even know what the real taste of stuff is.
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