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charmed_goddess87
Aug 11, 2006, 2:25 AM
10 Reasons Why Americans are crazy...

01. A pizza gets to our house faster than an ambulance.

02. There are handicap parking places in front of skating rinks.

03. 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.

04. People order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a DIET coke.

05. Banks leave two sets of front doors unlocked and open and then chain their pens to the counters.

06. We leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.

07. We use answering machines to screen calls and then have "call waiting" so we won't miss a call from someone we don't want to talk to in the first place.

08. We buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in package of eight.

09. We use the word "politics" to precisely describe our crazy process: "Poli" in Latin means "many" and "tics" means "bloodsucking creatures".

10. We have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.

ScifiBiJen
Aug 11, 2006, 2:52 AM
Hmm. Intended to be humorous, but I find some of those to be offensive and uninformed.

02. Not everyone with a handicap license has broken legs. Some people like to watch ice skating or they are handicapped but have fully capable children who like to skate.

04. Some people just like the Taste of Diet sodas. Doesn't mean they're trying to lose weight.

05. No one's going to take the doors home with them. If the doors were locked all the time, how're the customers going to get in? Every bank I know of has automatic locks that can be triggered from inside the bank. There are two sets of doors so that people can get locked in between them.

There are actual reasons for most of the things on this list. I'd look them up, but I've prolly sucked enough humor out of this for now.

Carry on!

Driver 8
Aug 11, 2006, 10:17 AM
Since someone else started the nitpicking, I'll add a few too ;)


04. People order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a DIET coke.
In addition to what Jen said, this menu has fewer calories and less sugar than ordering the regular Coke. It's not an all-or-nothing world, after all; what's so crazy about making one change in your habits?


08. We buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in package of eight.
There's a theory that this is because bakers do things in groups of four (http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_350.html), like dozens, which seems as good a reason as we're ever going to find..


10. We have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.
I know blind people who take cabs to the ATM. You can hardly ask them to give the cabbie their PIN number, can you?

(The drive-up ATMs are actually exempt from the US laws about wheelchair accessibility, but when there were proposals to exempt them from the Braille law as well, the manufacturers - and associations for the blind - showed that blind people were actually using these machines when Braille was available.)

littlerayofsunshine
Aug 11, 2006, 11:25 AM
A true "bakers dozen" has 13 in it, not 12. Believed to have been started in the 13 century. Info about Baker's Dozen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker's_dozen)

charmed_goddess87
Aug 11, 2006, 6:36 PM
Damn..was tryin to post someting funny n ya'll dont even laugh at it *sigh* oh well

the sacred night
Aug 11, 2006, 9:02 PM
Lol I found it funny! I often suck the fun out of things like this with my nitpicking too, but since everyone has already done that for me... I'll just laugh------> :cutelaugh

And I did actually learn some things from the nitpick-age.

citystyleguy
Aug 12, 2006, 12:35 AM
hell, thanks for a laugh; i enjoyed all of the jokes! everyone else lighten up!!!