What does the phrase "All american" Mean to you?

[HEyHEY]

I don't know my self, but I always get an image of some insincere, fake dipshit.

[Syrinx]

1. let's just say "not what it used to"

Unless, maybe, you're talking football players.

[tedoll78]

2. Whenever I hear that phrase..

I immediately think "meaningless advertising lingo."

[SOteric]

3. Hype. n/t

[bo44]

4. white people running around crowing about how superior they are compared

to all the poor unfortunates unlike themselves.

[HEyHEY]

5. ...t

there's a thread like that right now.....

[starroute]

6. Actually, I visualize a guy in one of those 1930's football uniforms

With a dippy leather helmet and a ball tucked under his elbow and a silly Dick Powell grin.

(Hey, so I've got a retro imagination. Not my fault.)

[Mick Knox]

7. hot dog nt

[foxy]

8. I'll try.

I would like to believe that it is or was one who truly believe(s)(d) in our country and would back it up to no avail. But seeing as this country this government is not living up to being believed in I guess there’s no since in even trying to be all American.

Because now days it obviously means to go into other people’s lives and try to make them live the lives they think they should live. Without even knowing or understanding what makes them live the way they do.

This is just my humble opinion.

I still believe in this country just not in the governing bodies running it.

[DemWitch]

10. Very, very well put Foxy...

:yourock:

[JVS]

9. Unpolluted by Canadians. Canadians infiltrate and undermine our culture

If you watch TV you're watching Canadians.

BTW I'm just razzing you :-)

[Spider Jerusalem]

11. My mental image...

(and I'm an American, mind you)

someone who lives in a suburb filled with essentially identical houses, occupied by essentially identical people who work the same sorts of jobs, drive the same cars, plan to send their children to the same schools, and mostly think the same thoughts. Someone who thinks happiness is measured by the size of one's bank account and the shininess of one's toys. Someone who happens to be mildly xenophobic, utterly disinterested in or else actively hostile to the world outside the borders of the US. The smug, self-centred, stupid product of a failed society and a broken culture. It's a shame that my perception of the term has come to this...I may be somewhat prejudiced in my views, I admit, but I don't think I'm entirely wrong, either.

[JSJ]

12. it's a marketing term- denotes white, sterile, muscular over mindful n/t

[Placebo]

13. It's like pornography, you can't define it, but you KNOW IT...

when you SEE IT. :smoke:

[foxy]

14. kick for those who missed this

[Endangered Specie]

15. either "Probably Not made very well" or "High in Fat Carbs and Calories"