Why US is not the greatest country in the world ...

[Rahul]

Just cause your mother-in-law is a bad cook doesn't mean fried okra is bad.

When I was in the military occasionally they would serve okra. As I would be standing in line to get chow there would always be at least one Northerner who would say, "What the hell is okra?"

I'd shoot back, "It's a vegetable you ignorant Yankee."

[Savannahw]

O chow chow. Who has had Chow Chow?

[Minimalist]

When she made cornbread it was pretty good. I've had cornbread in restaurants that tasted like wallpaper paste but her's was nice and moist.

If only she had stuck to the cornbread.

[Doubting Thomas]

If you went hunting after school, and brought your rifles to school, it was fine. It had to say in the truck was the only rule.

That's as it should be. This zero-tolerance nonsense where they're suspending kids just for pointing their finger like a gun is ridiculous, especially when that one school made a deaf child sign his name differently because part of it briefly required him to make a sign similar to a finger-gun since his name is Hunter.

When I was in high school in the 80's, one of my classmates brought in a shotgun and showed how to break it down & clean it in speech class where we had to demonstrate how to do something. Of course it was totally unloaded, and nobody panicked and kicked him out of school. How times have changed.

[Minimalist]

How times have changed.

Multiple school shootings will have that impact.

[NoraBrimstone]

Okra is one of the most disgusting foods in the universe. Only beaten by Lychees and Avocados.

[CapnAwesome]

The whole idea of a greatest country is dumb. On what variables do we judge this? What makes a country great for one person might make it a shit-hole for someone else. If your passion is firing semi-automatic weapons then the US is the greatest. If you love soccer probably not. No country is the greatest country.

[Cato]

Just cause your mother-in-law is a bad cook doesn't mean fried okra is bad.

When I was in the military occasionally they would serve okra. As I would be standing in line to get chow there would always be at least one Northerner who would say, "What the hell is okra?"

I'd shoot back, "It's a vegetable you ignorant Yankee."

I would then say, "And you intentionally put that shit in your mouth?"

I would then take a heaping bowl full only to throw it away to ensure I didn't see it again at midrats.

Truthfully, I can munch on fried okra. Traditionally prepared it has the consistency of snot.

[Faith No More]

The whole idea of a greatest country is dumb. On what variables do we judge this? What makes a country great for one person might make it a shit-hole for someone else. If your passion is firing semi-automatic weapons then the US is the greatest. If you love soccer probably not. No country is the greatest country.

That sounds like commie talk to me.

[Doubting Thomas]

On what variables do we judge this?

On the country we live in, son. Murica!