Reason10 · 70-79, M
@ArishMell I don't hate the world. I neither feel superior to or feel envious of other cultures, except to suggest I prefer the United States model. I never said the European model affects me. But I will respond to those who wag the finger of socialism in my face, citing examples of Scandinavian countries. Doesn't mean I dislike them or envy them.
By the way, this is YOUR problem, not mine and not Europe's. I doubt seriously if you are a member of the Chamber Of Commerce for any countries. You just don't like my political opinions on things, and this is just another left wing end run around facts and logic.
By the way, this is YOUR problem, not mine and not Europe's. I doubt seriously if you are a member of the Chamber Of Commerce for any countries. You just don't like my political opinions on things, and this is just another left wing end run around facts and logic.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@Reason10 I don't accept your left-right view of things, partly because there was nothing Left/Right in the OP nor much of the thread anyway.
Though I appreciate the US' political spectrum is generally rather to the right of most European countries'.
No do I see any relevance in Chambers of Commerce. As a matter of fact I have never owned or managed a business, and anyway, I retired nine years ago!
I did not comment on your political views, but I do not excuse xenophobic and utterly pointless writing off of entire collections of nations as "trash" - despite contradicting that by welcoming tourists from there.
Though I appreciate the US' political spectrum is generally rather to the right of most European countries'.
No do I see any relevance in Chambers of Commerce. As a matter of fact I have never owned or managed a business, and anyway, I retired nine years ago!
I did not comment on your political views, but I do not excuse xenophobic and utterly pointless writing off of entire collections of nations as "trash" - despite contradicting that by welcoming tourists from there.
Reason10 · 70-79, M
I don't like taking vacations, personally. But Florida's economy is largely based on snowbirds taking vacations. I like others taking vacations. We welcome Europeans taking vacations here.
I used to sell timeshare in Orlando. We were told (and I now wonder if any of this was true) that in Europe it is required by law to leave one's home for a month out of each year. And somehow that's how the concept of interval ownership (timeshare) was created.
It could all be a huge lie, but that's what our bosses wanted us to put into our pitches.
I know Europeans are big on vacations and always have been. They are basically a lazy, entitled group of folks who look to the United States to bail them out when one of their countries decides to attack the rest, militarily. They sometimes have the work ethic of our welfare bums.
These days, you couldn't pay me to go to Europe for any reason. That EuroTrash hates anything United States. Why spend a ton of money flying to the other side of the world just to be hated? My youngest daughter and her husband vacation in Japan, mostly because they DON'T hate America.
I used to sell timeshare in Orlando. We were told (and I now wonder if any of this was true) that in Europe it is required by law to leave one's home for a month out of each year. And somehow that's how the concept of interval ownership (timeshare) was created.
It could all be a huge lie, but that's what our bosses wanted us to put into our pitches.
I know Europeans are big on vacations and always have been. They are basically a lazy, entitled group of folks who look to the United States to bail them out when one of their countries decides to attack the rest, militarily. They sometimes have the work ethic of our welfare bums.
These days, you couldn't pay me to go to Europe for any reason. That EuroTrash hates anything United States. Why spend a ton of money flying to the other side of the world just to be hated? My youngest daughter and her husband vacation in Japan, mostly because they DON'T hate America.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@Reason10 I don't know what if any country outside of othe USA you have ever visited, but what you were told about time-share homes in "Europe" may means only in one country or some countries. Europe consists of nearly thirty countries.
Even so, it would seem strange to have a time-share agreement in which one part-owner does not leave the property for the other at some point, but I accept the laws and trace practices may differ from country to country.
Europeans as a rule don't hate Americans; but no-one in any country - from Iceland to Japan and back again - is likely to welcome foreigners being so wilfuly, childishly ignorant and rude as to call them "trash".
As for attacking European countries for their industries having the nerve to give employees holiday (don't they do that in the USA too?), that too shows your xenophobic ignorance. What counts is that the work is done, and calling people lazy for having holidays is plain foolish. Are your daughter and son-in-law lazy because they have holidays too? Of course not!
Even so, it would seem strange to have a time-share agreement in which one part-owner does not leave the property for the other at some point, but I accept the laws and trace practices may differ from country to country.
Europeans as a rule don't hate Americans; but no-one in any country - from Iceland to Japan and back again - is likely to welcome foreigners being so wilfuly, childishly ignorant and rude as to call them "trash".
As for attacking European countries for their industries having the nerve to give employees holiday (don't they do that in the USA too?), that too shows your xenophobic ignorance. What counts is that the work is done, and calling people lazy for having holidays is plain foolish. Are your daughter and son-in-law lazy because they have holidays too? Of course not!
Reason10 · 70-79, M
@ArishMell Nobody has attacked European countries for their industrial work ethic regulations. Personally, I don't care if all businesses in Europe require employees to work only an hour a day. My problem is the liberals wagging their fingers at American businesses and trying to suggest our employee relations are inferior to European ones. I haven't attacked anyone or any business for wanting to observe holidays and give employees the day off. I only hold myself personally to different standards. As far as Europeans hating Americans, my youngest daughter toured Europe (around the turn of the century) on the Student Ambassador group(People To People) . We got a call late at night that there had been an incident in Paris, concerning an angry mob that surrounded the PTP group and yelled obscenities and hate speech for about an hour. I'm not judging all of Europe by that action, but you can't find a similar incident happening in America, and we're the home base of the Democrat KKK. A few years later, my daughter rejoined PTP for a trip to China. She felt a lot safer, if you can imagine. She even got to meet Mary Eisenhower on that trip. I used to sell timeshare in Orlando. We were told the concept began in Europe, since they were more supportive of a person leaving his home for vacation. (No such thing as a StayCation in Europe.) I don't look down on Europe for that. If anything, the concept of timeshare has made a lot of Floridians rich in the real estate market. The countries I visited outside of America are the following: Ontario, Mexico, St. Thomas, Grand Cayman, Jamaica, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Bahamas. Out of all of them, I enjoyed Mexico the most. Friendliest locals there, for sure. At my age, the idea of traveling a long distance for a vacation has no appeal at all. The only exception might be driving to Port Everglades on the other side of the state and spending a week on what Jimmy Buffett refers to as a "Tacky Cruise Ship."
AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M
We hate when they call it a holiday
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AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M
@ArishMell um, you all sing like you are American . What’s the difference?
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@AthrillatheHunt Some pop-singers do, I admit that. That's been around since the early days of British acts taking up Rock-&-Roll, with the notable exception of The Beatles and others of "the Mersey sound". Punk singers shouted in their own Mancunian, London or wherever voices; Tom Jones always kept his Welsh accent.
I think they believe if they put on a generic American accent it improves their voice - a tough challenge - or more likely their commercial success; but it's pointless and just an affectation. Perhaps their managers told them to sound vaguely American!
Real singers don't do that. They may have to adopt something of an Italian or German accent if singing in those languages, to enunciate the words properly; but that's different.
I think they believe if they put on a generic American accent it improves their voice - a tough challenge - or more likely their commercial success; but it's pointless and just an affectation. Perhaps their managers told them to sound vaguely American!
Real singers don't do that. They may have to adopt something of an Italian or German accent if singing in those languages, to enunciate the words properly; but that's different.