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CaptainDankness
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Don't forget the jellyfish that can kill you, along with the deadliest snakes, spiders.... platypus (wtff!!), crocodiles and a Dingo 8 my baby! M8.
Fuck knows what y'all's sharks are like, but the jellyfish are going to keep me from surfing. LolY'all do have a few upsides though. I seen one dude post pictures of kangaroo steak, it looked fucking delicious. Let's throw another shrimp on the barbie.
CaptainDankness
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All I have to say is, 'Murica!!!! Fuck yeah!!!
best place to experience the Winter Solstice.......
CaptainDankness
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troutman
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Brother Nature
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Everything in Australia can kill you, especially the beer. I haven't lived in America for quite a while now, couldn't live the style of life I want there cause I fucked up (badly) when I was young. My family still reside there and being away has given me a different perspective. Poverty, crime, mental illness, etc... none of it is worse there than any other country, the comparison to India made me laugh out loud for real, if you've ever been to the non-touristy parts of India there's no way you'd ever say quality of life is better there than the US. Perception is everything I guess though, if I only listened to what the media said about my home country, I'd be shit scared to go there.
From my perspective, the issue with America is the system is broken and has been for a long, long time. Our forefathers would be ashamed of what the United States has become. Capitalism has muddled the philosophy behind America, which was pretty unique and revolutionary. Republicans or democrats, they're both victims of the same system that's become about one thing, money. I'm also, in no way, saying something like socialism or communism is an alternative, we've seen that doesn't work either. What we need is a REAL change, something else new and revolutionary. I wish I knew what it was, but I suppose if I did, I wouldn't be talking about it on a cannabis based internet forum.
I haven't lived in America for quite a while now, couldn't live the style of life I want there cause I fucked up (badly) when I was young. My family still reside there and being away has given me a different perspective. Poverty, crime, mental illness, etc... none of it is worse there than any other country, the comparison to India made me laugh out loud for real, if you've ever been to the non-touristy parts of India there's no way you'd ever say quality of life is better there than the US. Perception is everything I guess though, if I only listened to what the media said about my home country, I'd be shit scared to go there.From my perspective, the issue with America is the system is broken and has been for a long, long time. Our forefathers would be ashamed of what the United States has become. Capitalism has muddled the philosophy behind America, which was pretty unique and revolutionary. Republicans or democrats, they're both victims of the same system that's become about one thing, money. I'm also, in no way, saying something like socialism or communism is an alternative, we've seen that doesn't work either. What we need is a REAL change, something else new and revolutionary. I wish I knew what it was, but I suppose if I did, I wouldn't be talking about it on a cannabis based internet forum.
dragongrower
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It does sound like the us could use some more unions, though..
Here where I live the unions are strong, so that you cant really get fucked by the employer as many has experienced here..
Here where I live the unions are strong, so that you cant really get fucked by the employer as many has experienced here..
have people ever found out what the fuck a platypuss is yet?is it a mammal?
Brother Nature
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It's a mammal with an identity crisis.
coconutcurry
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But what was first? The chicken or the egg? Are these people homeless because they are drug addicts or are they drug addicts because they can't stand their homeless life anymore?
troutman
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I lived in the USA for nearly 5 years during my late teens/early 20's, traveled extensively and I must say that even back then it was a very difficult place to stereotype as just one nation because there were so many different groups of people living in radically different societies/environments in may different states. It was as if the USA had a whole mess of different socio/economic micro-climates populated by just about every racial/cultural mix imaginable. I lived in barrio's and ghetto's (projects), cheap flop houses, and roach filled motels/hotels, couch serfed then finally earned enough to rent a room in an apartment, then it was all on the up and up from there mostly.
If you are prepared to work hard and use what intelligence was given you well, it is possible to find something good in the USA, lead a healthy lifestyle, and be successful.
Success brings its own problems to many who suddenly find they have the money to overindulge and become addicts, so bringing their success to a sharp halt, and many end up back on skid-row. Its as if success is the cause of many a failure.
I had many great life changing experiences during my time in the US, and managed to come out of it with quite a national perspective of that land. I found it distinctly feudal in many inner city areas, and saw more violence in the USA than I have seen anywhere else in those places, maybe it was my age and the fact that I spent a lot of time in night clubs/concerts and honky-tonks because I worked as a roadie/security bod. Or maybe its because violence seems to be a lot more near the surface in some areas of the US than what I had ever experienced before in the UK.
I guess that you could call it a nation of extremes. One day you could be driving down the road with the Amish in a horse and buggy, the next day hopping around in some Cholo's tricked-out Chevy Impala. The USA is just too big and full of such diverse people and places to be able to say exactly what its all about....so best not even try.
If you are prepared to work hard and use what intelligence was given you well, it is possible to find something good in the USA, lead a healthy lifestyle, and be successful.
Success brings its own problems to many who suddenly find they have the money to overindulge and become addicts, so bringing their success to a sharp halt, and many end up back on skid-row. Its as if success is the cause of many a failure.
I had many great life changing experiences during my time in the US, and managed to come out of it with quite a national perspective of that land. I found it distinctly feudal in many inner city areas, and saw more violence in the USA than I have seen anywhere else in those places, maybe it was my age and the fact that I spent a lot of time in night clubs/concerts and honky-tonks because I worked as a roadie/security bod. Or maybe its because violence seems to be a lot more near the surface in some areas of the US than what I had ever experienced before in the UK.
I guess that you could call it a nation of extremes. One day you could be driving down the road with the Amish in a horse and buggy, the next day hopping around in some Cholo's tricked-out Chevy Impala. The USA is just too big and full of such diverse people and places to be able to say exactly what its all about....so best not even try.
CaptainDankness
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For real the states are pretty much all different. You have the Yankees in the north east, hillbillies if you go too far north lol, MA is different even little RI so much different than MA. NYC fuck that place I was taking a bus to Florida stuck in NY for a couple hours early in the morning, just waves of people walking to work looked like fucking robots. Lol, it was pretty funny I just leaned back on the wall and watching nobody even made eye contact.
Florida is alright always something going on especially when I was a kid. We'd go fishing, surfing, play with scorpions and smoke weed. The next time Daytona way too many bums but it was fun hung we the Outlaws a bit got free coke just to prove I wasn't a cop. Lol
Tennessee was cool too up in the mountains it's a hillbilly paradise so many fucking deer, I would hardly ever buy food. Where I live you can only get 1 deer it's not too bad but it doesn't last too long.
Now Texas I want to move their too. Lol, mule deer, white tail and as many wild boar as you can kill. Never been there but I'd love it fuck the city though. I can hunt all year and plant a bunch of clones here and there everywhere probably even come across some peyote.
Skynyrd couldn't even choose. Lol
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SY63KTMrkTM
Florida is alright always something going on especially when I was a kid. We'd go fishing, surfing, play with scorpions and smoke weed. The next time Daytona way too many bums but it was fun hung we the Outlaws a bit got free coke just to prove I wasn't a cop. Lol
Tennessee was cool too up in the mountains it's a hillbilly paradise so many fucking deer, I would hardly ever buy food. Where I live you can only get 1 deer it's not too bad but it doesn't last too long.
Now Texas I want to move their too. Lol, mule deer, white tail and as many wild boar as you can kill.
Never been there but I'd love it fuck the city though. I can hunt all year and plant a bunch of clones here and there everywhere probably even come across some peyote.Skynyrd couldn't even choose. Lol
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SY63KTMrkTM
That is the true essence of the US and why I love it. The constitution allows every state to create their own micro-system of government.
Going beyond that, the importance of CHOICE reigns supreme here. You can choose to have a child at 16 and live in poverty, you can grow up in the ghetto and choose to join the military and lift yourself up and get free education, you can choose to live as a hill billy and work less and be poor, live off the land and have your time to yourself, you can choose to go to big cities and get wealthy or start a business. Shit, you can even choose to do drugs and be homeless.
That's the divide in our country right now playing out on live TV. You have one group that believes in responsible Choices that you live or die by, and the other group believes that bad choices should be endlessly insured by government. One group believes that with proper work ethic you can live a decent life, the other attributes bad choices to victimization.
examples on current events:
"drug war targets minorities"
group A: don't sell crack, go to college and leave your shitty neighborhood
group B: it is not the crack dealers fault he chose to sell crack instead of working for a company. it is systemic racist oppression that forced him to join a gang and not get a job. it is also racist that we arrest him for it.
"unmarried child bearing leading to poverty"
group A: have kids when you can afford them yourself. if you can't then buy condoms or abastain.
group B: no matter how many kids you keep popping out, we will pay for their health care, send you money for food at home, pay for their school lunches, and subsidize your housing because its not your fault you have 4 kids by 25 years old with 4 different guys who arent in the picture
"unemployed healthy people"
group A: if your job doesnt pay enough find a new trade or move to an area with a better economy
group B: no matter what you do you should get $15 an hour. it is not your fault that you didn't choose a good career path, it is "the corporations". so just stay put in your run-down area, the government will mail you checks to compensate for your lack of ambition.
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coconutcurry
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During medieval times in Europe the peasants were property of the gentry and had no rights, but they had the possibility to marry and have some children and found a family. They were able to feed the family and they had a roof over their head. The gentry cared about them, because they needed the next generation of workers.
But today the wages are so low that it is impossible for somebody to feed a family and pay rent and everything. In my eyes everybody can expect to be paid in a way that makes it possible to feed a small family under humble conditions. Yes, even a very simple worker must get this no matter how primitive his work is. Simply because we're men and no cattle.
Hard to say..Most don't want help at all.Thinking the city is ok with them being outside 24/7 even stealing electricity from the parking meters.
Shelters here are Christians and At night before everyone goes to bed,everyone prays or at least look like they are praying for a better life but most don't want to go through the routine every night and being told when to be at the Shelter at a certain time.
Alot of these problems is because no one in a Christian and think it's Slum time!! Well,Folks here are a little more disciplined by being Christians and being over run by Shithole countries peoples.
This is the result.
admittedly a country type person, so forgive my innocence
stealing electricity from a parking meter sounds kind of hard, and maybe dangerous
but it actually happens?
Yea,,puzzle me silly.Seen where they unscrew the meter or cut it to get to the 2 power wires.Must be Old Meters where it works.Running power stoves and flat screen tv's
The street itself has to be maintained but if it's skid row and that part of the city not taken care of when tax payers have to tell the idiots up in front to get busy with the tax payers money.
Out here by the Coast it seems we have Solar Meters.
No one sleeps out here around a pole.
We have some homeless that sleeps right in front of the Library of all places not wanting even to learn anything but sit on the ass and look spaced out.Best thing to do is water the ground everyday with Christian Holy Water since no one does it.
(Now try sitting in that ya Infidel!) Homeless are Infidels
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