I DESTROYED MY TELEVISION SET.

(sigh) sounds like the american way - use of gratuitous force and violence. And spam.

-B.

Don't blame America. His own email address describes him as a yahoo.

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So much for it being the American way?

That's nice.

You really should take your meds like you should.

Or.....you should quit self medicating.

right, you looked at it with your evil eyes.

Gotta love that German potato salad...

Rob

Not me. Any type of potato salad induces projectile vomiting.

(sigh ...again)...Read it properly. it says ' SOUNDS LIKE the american way ', not IS the american way! .

SIGH! Read it for yourself (even though you wrote it). It is just another backhanded slur from Spain, against the US.

please explain. what are the others, if this is 'another' and 'backhanded'?? how?

Read usenet for a while. There are a number of Europeans and a couple Canadians who Damn the US at every chance, even if they have to make up the whole story, rather than just twist a few facts. Its quite common on the sci.electronics.* hierarchy.

Backhanded as in, they don't come right out and say what they mean. Instead they try to turn it into a sick little joke so they can claim innocence when called on their comments.

Names like Eeyore, Homer J Simpson, Bill Sloman top the list, but there are dozens of others. Do a little digging and you'll see what I mean.

why would anyone want to criticize the US?

Jealousy, or ignorance, is my guess. Either that, or they just love telling lies.

what lies etc. have you encountered? I'm intrigued. Can't say I've noticed a great deal on this NG, perhaps you could point me in the direction of the relevant threads.

A lot of it is on news:alt.binaries.schematics which isn't archived. Look for the names I mentioned in the Google groups archives, in the sci.electronics and alt.electronics groups. For instance, Bill Sloman made a claim that the US kept changing their food safety standards so his relatives couldn't export beef to the US. Others rant about nuclear power, the vehicles we drive, health care, food safety and any other garbage you can come up with. It would be easier for you to take a look at the archives with the names I gave, than for me to post pages of links. Add US or United States to your search to help filter out other posts.

In fact Michael A. Terrell, like a number of the regulars on sci.electronics.design, seems to have been brainwashed early on to believe

a) that the U.S.A. is perfect.

b) that anybody criticising any aspect of the U.S.A. - no matter how imperfect - is a lying, jealous, crypto-terrorist.

I'm inclined to blame the civics courses in primary school - a friend of ours spent a couple of years working in the U.S while his children were going to primary school. When they came home from school with strange ideas about the perfection of the U.S. system, their parents set them right - they were Australians, after all - which prompted the teacher involved to try to persuade the children that the parents were ignorant and misguided people. Since the parents were university educated, and very smart, this didn't work, but the parents were not well pleased.

For reference, one of the "lies" that we tell on sci.electronics.design is that the U.S. medical system produces remarkably poor public health statistics

This is mainly due to inadequate support for the poor qand minority groups.

Go figure. I guess it is a lot cheaper for the American government to brainwash its kids than it is to set up a comprehensive medical system.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

and

Exhibit "A". Need I say more?

They didn't change the food safety standards. Rather, they insisted that the slaughterhouses in Australia conformed - in every detail - to the regulations applying to slaughterhouses in the U.S. This meant that the Australians had to build special slaughter houses for the beef they wanted to export to the U.S.A. and they had to be inspected, and approved by U.S. inspectors before the exports could go ahead.

The inspections were very thorough - to the point of being quite unreasonably thorough - and it proved strangely difficult for anybody in Australia to build an acceptable slaughter house. Anything that did pass would fail a subsequent reinspection and have to be torn down and rebuilt.

This is usually described as "a non-tariff barrier to trade", though the word "cheating" is often used as well.

The relative involved was one of the daughters of my father-in-law's third wife. My father-in-law was not the father of the daughter involved, so the relationship was pretty remote. I originally got to hear of the scam from the farmers kids that I went to school with in Tasmania in the 1950's - it ran for many years.

U.S. health care is remarkably poor for such a rich country. Child mortality is about the same as Cuba's, and significanty worse that France, Germany, the U.K., the Netherlands or Sweden. Afro-Americans, Red Indians and the Inuit do a lot worse than WASPs.

Check out "The Omnivore's Dilemma" for a US-written take on US food safety

None of mine are garbage. Mike Terrell just doesn't like being reminded that the U.S.A. hasn't yet solved every social problem, and

- in some areas - could learn something from other countries.

The electoral system is about due for an update ....

And you'd avoid the distortions introduced by Mike Terrell's brainwashed perceptions.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen