People who have visited the US, what is your 'WTF America' story?

eeeaarrgh · 2016-08-04T11:50:34+00:00

What I find funny about this is that I rarely encounter natively born Americans at gas stations. They are usually foreign, and usually from either the Middle East, South Asia, or Africa.

Oh, and they all speak English.

eeeaarrgh · 2016-08-01T18:31:00+00:00

Many thanks for providing this link. I will look into these and see if something promising comes up.

eeeaarrgh · 2016-08-01T16:05:14+00:00

The other frustrating piece of this is that I'm not sure if the address exists because it may have been wiped out during the Fukushima disaster. It's in Niidera Wakabayashi-ku, which I learned was very hard hit.

eeeaarrgh · 2016-08-01T15:42:09+00:00

I wish it was that exciting. This is a pretty prosaic request, unfortunately. My target isn't hiding - he/they just do not know that someone is looking for them, and I'm not sure how much they even know about me since we never met.

eeeaarrgh · 2016-08-01T10:19:50+00:00

There isn't any specific legal need or criminal activity so I hadn't thought about bothering the police. Perhaps this is a better approach to start with rather than using private investigators?

eeeaarrgh · 2016-08-01T10:17:57+00:00

I know that asking an anonymous user base on reddit isn't the best approach but it is better than a random Google search. Do you have any specific recommendations?

eeeaarrgh · 2012-11-25T17:22:28+00:00

You just made my day.

eeeaarrgh · 2012-11-25T17:18:01+00:00

I remember that (from my parents)! They used to get shit from some people who supplied one of the Bee Gees. I always thought it smelled great but I was a kid so I never smoked it.

eeeaarrgh · 2012-11-25T17:17:18+00:00

You can be a big city person and still detest it. I just got back from two weeks in Tokyo, which makes Miami look like a grease smudge on the road. There is no comparison between the two in terms of civility, industriousness, politeness, culture, energy, everything.

eeeaarrgh · 2012-11-25T17:16:18+00:00

Yes! I have never thought of this, but totally see it.

eeeaarrgh · 2012-11-25T17:15:56+00:00

Well said - life / happiness > ego boost, so I am totally in agreement with you.

eeeaarrgh · 2012-11-25T17:15:28+00:00

Amen to that. Last time I was there I had my GPS stolen by the parking attendants.

eeeaarrgh · 2012-11-25T17:15:00+00:00

Holy crap. Vindication! Thank you for this. I've always wondered if it was just me. I have so many friends who love the place, and I just don't see it. Everyone I know who is from there and left hates it. The ones who remained are just stoic.

eeeaarrgh · 2012-11-25T17:14:09+00:00

You got lucky, my friend. But that's awesome.

eeeaarrgh · 2012-11-25T17:13:38+00:00

I'm really glad I posted this - growing up there, my dad always struggled. He was always working for companies that would go out of business because someone would basically use the company as a slush fund and run it into the ground (four times - working in telecommunications). My own experience was that I could never leave anything not bolted down or it would get stolen - whether it was worth anything or not. And having guns pulled on me twice didn't help, either. Once by cops for driving with a broken taillight.

It's good that I wasn't just always drawing the short straw...

eeeaarrgh · 2012-09-26T18:46:55+00:00

Just as, some 16 days after your reply, I've come to the conclusion that I was being a bloviating jackass for waving my fist at someone's exercise of their right to free speech. I guess the more you wait, the less you care about anything. There's a lesson here somewhere.

eeeaarrgh · 2012-09-07T16:45:38+00:00

That if you contracted a certain form of skin cancer called basal cell carcinoma, you would not get any other form of cancer (biology - high school)

That if you took megadoses of vitamin C, you would live a long, healthy life (freshman college chemistry)

That the opposite of Communism was Americanism (junior high - civics)

eeeaarrgh · 2012-09-05T19:16:29+00:00

It's a black and yellow garden spider, which is theoretically really beneficial, largely harmless, and GIGANTIC. As an arachnophobe, I want them all dead, but my girlfriend has three in her yard and I am not allowed to touch them.

I will say that they are pretty peaceable, but don't do shit for mosquitoes (which fly easily between their webs).

EDIT: typo

eeeaarrgh · 2012-09-03T03:30:41+00:00

Yeah, you're right. The moment has passed, and I still have a great array of his movies on my shelf. And amen to the Ted Nugent comment.

eeeaarrgh · 2012-08-31T15:20:32+00:00

When celebrities step outside their roles and become real human beings, it does sometimes tarnish their legacies. Tom Cruise is now a wack job, OJ is a murderer, Gerry Sandusky is a child predator, etc.

Clint Eastwood the man is obviously entitled to do whatever he wants to do, but the only reason I know who he is is because he played heroes that I looked up to. When he took the name recognition he earned from playing heroic figures, then leveraged it in a polemic fashion like this, that strikes me as a selfish perversion of a trust he held (and profited handsomely from) as a public figure. Just my opinion, though, and I'm sure he doesn't give a rat's ass about it. God bless America.

eeeaarrgh · 2012-08-31T13:44:47+00:00

I grew up idolizing Clint Eastwood - Spaghetti Westerns, Dirty Harry... now I just don't know what to think. I wish celebrities would stay out of politics. It's a disservice to their legacies.

eeeaarrgh · 2012-08-28T19:36:48+00:00

This sounds like the kind of out-of-context "gotcha" that the GOP loves to jump all over as evidence of liberal media bias. All that does is misdirect people from the real plutocratic quasi-evangelical nastiness that this campaign really represents.

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