Understanding the U.S.

ok i have a question

how come almost 80% of the weddings in the American movies are Jewish weddings?

the US population is over 290 millions and the jewish American are like 6 millions !! thats like 2% of the population.

 

This one really really puzzles me even though I've spent about 3 months a year in the US for nearly 20 years.

Why can you not get vitamin tablets that you drop in a glass of water and they go fizzy and taste like orange or lemon juice?

I've asked drugstore clerks but they just look at me in puzzlement.

And why can I only buy an electirc kettle that switches itself off when it boils by importing one from Canada?

And why don't restaurants (apart from the odd Chinese one) serve whole fish on the bone? I managed to track down a store that sold whole fish with the heads on, but it was tough going. (It was the International Farmers' Market just off Peachtree Industrial at Chamblee for anyone else near Atlanta who has the same problem.)

How can a country so deficient in these important matters claim to be the leader of the free world?

 

Originally posted by azimuth ok i have a question how come almost 80% of the weddings in the American movies are Jewish weddings? the US population is over 290 millions and the jewish American are like 6 millions !! thats like 2% of the population.

I think the 'Runaway Bride' proves that we actually do show down to earth American weddings on the big screen.

Originally posted by Cywr Yeah, and why don't you lock your cars, don't you have car crime over there, coming to think of it, in the movies they are always able to park the car downtown, on the street, right outside the building they happen to be visiting. No wonder you have crappy mass transit, when parking is that easy theres no need for it.

We don't lock our doors because thats an extra button to push upon reentry. Its not convenient. (This was a totally senseless attempt at a stupid answer)

Originally posted by gcle2003 And why don't restaurants (apart from the odd Chinese one) serve whole fish on the bone? I managed to track down a store that sold whole fish with the heads on, but it was tough going. (It was the International Farmers' Market just off Peachtree Industrial at Chamblee for anyone else near Atlanta who has the same problem.) How can a country so deficient in these important matters claim to be the leader of the free world?

Eating our fish sandwiches while we drive is hard enough. What do you expect us to do, choke on a bone in the process?

 

You guys should all be given warnings for turning this sensitive topic into a flame war. How dare you mock our society. Just wait till we critisize your mass transit. You. You. Fisheads!

 

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Originally posted by azimuth ok i have a question how come almost 80% of the weddings in the American movies are Jewish weddings? the US population is over 290 millions and the jewish American are like 6 millions !! thats like 2% of the population.

I've honestly only seen one movie with a Jewish wedding, and I think it was a comedy.

Originally posted by cywr Yeah, and why don't you lock your cars, don't you have car crime over there, coming to think of it, in the movies they are always able to park the car downtown, on the street, right outside the building they happen to be visiting. No wonder you have crappy mass transit, when parking is that easy theres no need for it.

I don't really know anyone who doesn't lock their doors. Atleast around here everyone does, can't trust to many people. Maybe I should get into the business of grand theft auto, make alot of money in that trade . So Seko where do you live, and where did you go in the US Cywr?

Originally posted by gcle2003 Why can you not get vitamin tablets that you drop in a glass of water and they go fizzy and taste like orange or lemon juice?

Is a vitamin pill to hard to swallow? They have chewables .

And why don't restaurants (apart from the odd Chinese one) serve whole fish on the bone? I managed to track down a store that sold whole fish with the heads on, but it was tough going. (It was the International Farmers' Market just off Peachtree Industrial at Chamblee for anyone else near Atlanta who has the same problem.)

Couldn't tell you, I only recently started eatting fish other then Tuna. And I prefer salmon over all the other ones. We just buy our wild salmon in frozen packages.

What is the annual budget/size/distribution of US armed forces.

This might give you a idea. This is from wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_power

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Thanks for the concern S&D.

If you did'nt figure it out already, my whole response was for fun and games. Pure jest.

Yeah, I definitely lock the doors to my car. Driving home sure beats walking!

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Originally posted by Cywr Yeah, and why don't you lock your cars, don't you have car crime over there, coming to think of it, in the movies they are always able to park the car downtown, on the street, right outside the building they happen to be visiting. No wonder you have crappy mass transit, when parking is that easy theres no need for it.

Remember, it is the movies. Hollywood plays with the fantasies of people; one of them is that they can find parking right away. Also, viewers may get tired of waiting for 30 minutes for the character to find parking

Besides, in certain areas, I actually don't lock my car.

 I know American people I worked with them in Baghdad International Airport  they are generous,helpful,humble and funny.

But I have a question an American private asked it to me and I ask you now.

Why America gives Israel 7 billions $ as awarding every year?

 

^ Any forces, really. I'm not aware which are involved, so I had to leave it open.

Originally posted by Ahmed The Fighter But I have a question an American private asked it to me and I ask you now. Why America gives Israel 7 billions $ as awarding every year?

Ok dokie!

  Ahmed, US gives Israel $7 million aid (a gift actually) because Israel is the only democracy in the middle east and they want to make sure that this democracy survive.

That is why they give that money, so Israelis can buy weapons that rock a whole house killing in each air strike over 19 palestinians while palestinians are working on Al Qassam I and Al Qassam II rockets (I call them firworks).

Israel receives $7 billion aid so they can protect their lives against Palestinian suicide bombers by building a wall that does not only go over Oslo agreement line, eats up whole terroritories and prementantly toward Israel, but also that wall has and must divide anything iin its way ncluding dividing a schools, villages, and sometimes a farmer from his farm!

Also in the war against Palestinian terrorist, those terrorists who like to punish Israeli civilians in a collective punishment for the atrocities of their military which those civilians have not participated in. Those terrorist will go and blow up a bus and restaurants! So the US gives Israel  $7 billion to enable them to prosecute those terrorist by demolishing houses of innocent palestinians, collective punishment by setting curfew to cities as long and painful as 120 consecutive days! Also so Israel can enhance security check points that shot a girl who run afraid 21 bullets, broke bones of kids throwing stones and and to shoot a kid between his father's arm as Ahmed Al Durah.

Israel receives $7 billion so they can compensate for Jewish settlers who evacuated "their homeland"! and the Jew citizens who suffered from Palestinian terrorist attacks, but not the Arab citizens of Israel who lost their relatives by a "mentally challenged" Israeli soldier who shot killed four Arab on a bus, including two teenage girls in the Arab town of  Shfaram.

Israel receives $7 billion so they can help the needy Russian jews who escape poverty and prosecution and bring them to settle in Israel, while 700,000 palestianians and their offsprings of 5 millions! have no right to return to their homes and towns they escaped as refugees in 1948 and 1967, neither they are entitled for any compensaton, Not even a penny!

Anyhow, American citizens are one of the most humble, funny, and life-enjoyer people I've seen.

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Originally posted by Mila ^ Any forces, really. I'm not aware which are involved, so I had to leave it open.

When the U.S. is stopped by external forces, it has to do with the very complex situations that lack an easy fix. I hope that there is someone who can answer this one in more detail.

Within the U.S. it has to do with how well the different countries can promote their problem, and if an organized American group adopts the issue as its own.

In many cases most of the U.S. population just doesn't know about international problems. It sounds strange to foreigners, but this is the truth.

Then there are the U.S. corporations who tend to have a great amount of influence in these matters, especially if oil is involved. If the country's leadership is working with the U.S., then the chances of the U.S. intervening are lowered.

A positive trend that is occurring within some corporations is to attempt to improve conditions with the governments of third world countries. So the chocolate industry tries to influence the government in African countries to end cocoa slavery as they keep buying the product instead of just pulling out of the market and making the economic situation worse for the whole country.