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erronis

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1. "Americans think a lot of themselves"

Reply to Stellar (Original post)

Fri Aug 31, 2018, 05:51 PM

Aug 2018

Sounds like the best defense against being mediocre is making ourselves appear better than we are.

Intolerant.
Religious.
Better than everybody else.
Loud, obnoxious.
America thinks it is big, big, big.
Obese, fat, eat a lot.
Easy to manipulate. Dumb, ignorant.

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How the Dutch View Americans? Amsterdam [View all] Stellar Aug 2018 OP

"Americans think a lot of themselves" erronis Aug 2018 #1

Atrocious, jarring editing. Gave me a headache in 30 seconds. nt earthshine Aug 2018 #2

Interesting comments coming from people who wear wooden shoes and Sneederbunk Aug 2018 #3

I'm guessing that you've never been to Amsterdam. n/t Eyeball_Kid Aug 2018 #4

i have and i LOVED it!!! samnsara Aug 2018 #5

I saw this about a year ago. BigmanPigman Aug 2018 #6

I would agree with some of these, but I think the complaints about the smirkymonkey Sep 2018 #7

I think that view might come from the waiters/waitresses in restaurants being overly friendly, where OnDoutside Sep 2018 #8