Only In America


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I'm not sure this has been posted before but here goes...

1. Only in America......can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.

2. Only in America......are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.

3. Only in America......do 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.

4. Only in America......do people order double cheese burgers, large fries, and a diet Coke.

5. Only in America......do banks leave both doors to the vault open and then chain the pens to the counters.

6. Only in America......do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.

7. Only in America......do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to in the first place.

8. Only in America......do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.

9. Only in America......do we use the word "politics" to describe the process so well: "poli" in Latin meaning "many" and "tics" meaning "bloodsucking creatures."

10. Only in America......do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.

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Not only are some of those completely inaccurate or ignorant, but every one of those takes place in Canada as well. Only In American my ass.

The USA is not the only country in the Americas. :rolleyes:

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4. Only in America......do people order double cheese burgers, large fries, and a diet Coke.

got my Vote :D :D :D

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The hot dog bun one really makes me see red. I am a single guy living alone (my girlfriend lives at Uni still). I am caught in a loop I can never escape. Aaaaggggggghhhhh!

Maybe I have spent a little too long worrying about this :(

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The hot dog bun one really makes me see red. I am a single guy living alone (my girlfriend lives at Uni still). I am caught in a loop I can never escape. Aaaaggggggghhhhh!

Maybe I have spent a little too long worrying about this :(

five packs of buns and four packs of hotdogs..... :devil: :whistle:

scnr :D

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2. Only in America......are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.

4. Only in America......do people order double cheese burgers, large fries, and a diet Coke.

5. Only in America......do banks leave both doors to the vault open and then chain the pens to the counters.

2,4 and 5 r the best

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#2 is actually true in the Netherlands also. And they are used: handicapped people also use the ice-rink. Not on scates, but sledges...

Wich looks something like this!

Greetings,

Thekk

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8. Only in America......do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.

10. Only in America......do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.

Heh, even though I'm totally aware of the jokes, and hell, I think they're hilarious... hehe, but i'm going to be ignorant and tell you all that there is huge economic significance behind the aforementioned two quotes.

The reason why hot dogs come in ten and buns are in eight is because this dilemma between what to do with the last two hotdogs usually results in buying more buns to accomodate them, hence an increase in revenue for the bun company.

And, drive-up ATMs with braille lettering are around because it is actually cheaper to print every button pad for most ATMs from the same mold, which incidentally has braille dots in order to accomodate visually impared.

Hehe, it all comes down to economics my friends, and I'm sure most of the other quotes have some economic sence to them too, except the one with ordering at a fast food resturant, haha, thats just funny!

:happy:

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6. Only in America......do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.

This one ****es me off....I never understood why all of my friends' parents when I was still in high school did this. We never did. It's so gay.

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Not only are some of those completely inaccurate or ignorant, but every one of those takes place in Canada as well. Only In American my ass.

Hmmm...got some issues there, dontcha?

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