Why does everyone treat America as a joke?

yes this is it, I always try and learn basic terms if we do travel so at least I can be a little armed :) but knowing someone is always useful, I learnt a lot of Spanish phrases from a work friend :)

but yeh that's it, there will always be a culture shock, with anything that you are not used to. @DeWayfarer

@Gangstress I had two years of grade school Spanish. It didn't prepare me enough for Mexico City! Not even Germany did enough to prepare me. 🤣

@DeWayfarer haha I had the same problem

@plungesponge Way worse actually. A monkey can pick the right stocks by accident. The spread of a virus under given conditions in a pandemic is a mathematical certainty.😷

@newjaninev2 Actually the problem was much older that that.. However, in the land of unintended consequences, Trump was so blatent and excessive in his behaviour that he held a mirror up to Americans of his own outrageousness that even they had to face in shame. Without 4 years of him a lot more Americans would still be believers.😷

@DoubleRings And they will breed from her.........😷

@DoubleRings Lovely example of word salad

@nedkelly This is the problem with most of the US Media. There is little journalism. Just commentators. And I take this opportunity to apologise to America and the world generally for Rupert Murdoch.😷

@bookerdana I get that he is as genuine as the wrestling. But he is tolerated by the public to the extent that he still has employment and value to advertisers. "All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" Activism, complaint and boycotts of channels that show his crap- and sponsers that support him is the least you can actually in the basis that only then will you get the bar raised. Until then America WILL be judged on him. But lets get real. Its not just him. Cruz..DeSantos, Abbott, Kardashian, Giuliani, Trump himself? We are not just talking about flawed people here. We are talking about Parodies of humans.. Thats the America the world sees.😷

@MethDozer I agree. Neither is the road tar served in most places. My benchmark for having been too long in America was when starbucks started to taste drinkable. 😷

@whowasthatmaskedman You just went to the wrong places for coffee. Roadside diners my homie.

@MethDozer I did those as well. Mostly boiled bitumen with (shudder) UHT milk pods. I love the food generally and the generous serves that a person can go a whole day on. But here even McDonalds does much better Coffee than the best I found in the US. They had to or the mothers wouldnt bring the kids there.😷