الرئيسية
المنتديات
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العمر : 
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نقاط التميز
Only in America:
(Begun as a fictional list, but the real
"Only in Americas" are funnier, or at least stranger)
Drive-through banks, pharmacies, and liquor stores.
Parking lots (car parks) larger than the buildings
they serve.
Sugar-frosted honey-coated deep-fat-fried cheese
sticks - and a Diet Coke.
Bumper stickers that say "Honk if you hate noise
pollution".
Creationists who insist that the pharmaceutical
drugs they use first be tested on monkeys and chimps.
Football in which the ball is carried or propelled
much more by hand than by foot.
People who argue that human life is so sacred that
abortion justifies capital punishment.
A country where the "Lower Forty-eight" states are
north of Hawaii, and where the "Continental U.S" doesn't include Alaska, which
is clearly on the same continent.
A country where everyone has time to mow their
three-acre lawn each week, but no one has time to cook their own food.
People who value equality so much that they think
discrimination should be used to create it.
Academic institutions known more for their athletes
than their scholars.
A country where the Big Ten has eleven schools, and
a fifth is four fifths of a quart.
A country where "evil-doer" and "do-gooder" are both
negative characterizations.
A country that claims to hate lawyers, and that
elects only lawyers to public office.
Prices of gasoline (petrol) prices that are a
fraction of the price of drinking water - and people complaining about the price
of gasoline.
A State Department that has nothing to do with the
states.
"In God We Trust" written on every piece of money of
a nation that alleges to separate church and state.
A country where only the well-to-do ride bicycles.
One of the world's most technologically advanced
countries, with the most antiquated system of weights and measures.
"The Land of the Free" with the world's second
highest incarceration rate.
[size=9]Explanation
[/size]
[size=9][size=12] A principled refusal to ratify the 1989 United
Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. (Somalia is the only other nation
with the same principles.)
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(Begun as a fictional list, but the real
"Only in Americas" are funnier, or at least stranger)
Drive-through banks, pharmacies, and liquor stores.
Parking lots (car parks) larger than the buildings
they serve.
Sugar-frosted honey-coated deep-fat-fried cheese
sticks - and a Diet Coke.
Bumper stickers that say "Honk if you hate noise
pollution".
Creationists who insist that the pharmaceutical
drugs they use first be tested on monkeys and chimps.
Football in which the ball is carried or propelled
much more by hand than by foot.
People who argue that human life is so sacred that
abortion justifies capital punishment.
A country where the "Lower Forty-eight" states are
north of Hawaii, and where the "Continental U.S" doesn't include Alaska, which
is clearly on the same continent.
A country where everyone has time to mow their
three-acre lawn each week, but no one has time to cook their own food.
People who value equality so much that they think
discrimination should be used to create it.
Academic institutions known more for their athletes
than their scholars.
A country where the Big Ten has eleven schools, and
a fifth is four fifths of a quart.
A country where "evil-doer" and "do-gooder" are both
negative characterizations.
A country that claims to hate lawyers, and that
elects only lawyers to public office.
Prices of gasoline (petrol) prices that are a
fraction of the price of drinking water - and people complaining about the price
of gasoline.
A State Department that has nothing to do with the
states.
"In God We Trust" written on every piece of money of
a nation that alleges to separate church and state.
A country where only the well-to-do ride bicycles.
One of the world's most technologically advanced
countries, with the most antiquated system of weights and measures.
"The Land of the Free" with the world's second
highest incarceration rate.
[size=9]Explanation
[/size]
[size=9][size=12] A principled refusal to ratify the 1989 United
Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. (Somalia is the only other nation
with the same principles.)
[/size][/size]
