Europeans Visiting the US for the World Cup Have Been Marveling At American Plenty, So the Left-Wing Bitter Widow Vanity Magazine "The Atlantic" Tries to Prove It's All a Right-Wing Psyop

This has been going on for a couple of weeks. Europeans are posting videos (mostly TikToks) showing themselves astounded by the portion sizes at American restaurants, enjoying American conveniences, delighting in America's unique cuisine (such as barbecue and chicken and waffles), and generally enjoying the American way of life.

Emanuel Quiñones
@EQuinones6310
Jun 19
The World Cup has turned America into a discovery channel for the rest of the world.
And they are not handling it well.
In the best possible way.
Here is what they are discovering:
Free public restrooms. Europeans pay every time.
Free water at every restaurant. Just appears.
Free refills. Coffee. Sodas. Iced tea. Unlimited.
Free chips and salsa before you even order.
Free warm bread with dinner.
Ice in drinks like civilized people.
Air conditioning everywhere. Not a moral debate. A fact.
Parking lots attached to the actual place you are going.
Drive throughs where the food comes to the car while you sit in it.
Ranch dressing by the gallon.
Tex-Mex that cannot be explained only experienced.
Dental care that actually works.
Buccee's. There are no words for Buccee's.
Then they found the grocery stores.
Five of them within one mile.
Each one the size of an aircraft hangar.
Burgers. Steaks. Brisket. Ribs. Pulled pork. Lamb. Veal. Every cut of every animal ever domesticated by human civilization available in one refrigerated aisle at ten in the morning on a Tuesday.
The Germans stood in the meat section for forty five minutes.
In silence.
Processing.
They finally understand why we do not have trains.
We have roads wide enough for the cars we actually drive.
Parking lots the size of small European countries.
Airports in every city worth visiting.
Why would we need trains.
The Germans are taking ranch home by the bottle.
The Dutch found queso and briefly lost the ability to speak.
The Japanese are photographing HEB like it is the Louvre.
The Czechs are weeping in West, Texas.
Welcome to America!
The greatest country on earth.

Some video examples:

Europeans in the USA pic.twitter.com/TmCu8SAQvn
— Karli Bonne’ 🇺🇸 (@KarluskaP) June 21, 2026

More examples. There are some are repeats from the last one in the beginning, but it's mostly all new:

Europeans visiting the USA for the World Cup are enjoying the experience 😭 pic.twitter.com/uAxspW6Dwm
— kira 👾 (@kirawontmiss) June 18, 2026

And marveling at American suburbs and high schools:

Europeans discovering America is some of the best content of the internet right now: pic.twitter.com/4iOREgOGzM
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 14, 2026

So it's a nice story. It's a trend that reminds us in America to not take our plenty for granted, but to be grateful for it.

The left, on the other hand, doesn't think it's a nice story at all. They hate America for its riches and simultaneously curse it for having so much poverty. Choose a lane, guys.

So Steve Jobs' useless widow's Rich White Karen Needs a Hobby vanity magazine The Atlantic tried to debunk this "trend," as it's called, of Europeans appreciating America. They tried to prove it was inorganic. Fake. A right-wing op.

Note that he failed to find any evidence of this, but The Atlantic still claims, in its headline, that the videos are "not what they seem." Lack of evidence for the conspiracy is just further evidence of the conspiracy.

Justine Bateman read their attempt to #TakeDown this #ReichWingOp so that you don't have to.

Justine Bateman
@JustineBateman
It's sad that someone would feel compelled to write an article like this.
Within this Atlantic article, the writer strains against the joy that's been expressed by our foreign World Cup guests, and tries to find evidence of its falseness.
He is unable to.
I have saved you the trouble of reading the article. Enjoy all the happy videos instead.
And @TheAtlantic, you would gain many subscribers if you were to instead print the obvious piece about the joy being expressed. And also pull some happiness to yourself in associating with this joy.

It’s sad that someone would feel compelled to write an article like this.

Within this Atlantic article, the writer strains against the joy that’s been expressed by our foreign World Cup guests, and tries to find evidence of its falseness.
He is unable to.

I have saved you… pic.twitter.com/3sH07biZNK
— Justine Bateman (@JustineBateman) June 22, 2026

"Joy" is a dirty word to communists. They are anhedonic, unable to take pleasure in the joys of life, so out of spite they seek to deny joy to others.

Communists, as you know, are the most miserable people who have ever infested the earth. They look at people enjoying food they never had before, like barbecue, and get angry to see people showing pleasure.

There is only one kind of pleasure allowed on earth, and that is to agitate for communism and "critique" -- meaning "relentlessly attack with invective both fair and fictitious until it collapses due to the sheer weight of hate heaped upon it" -- any functional, working capitalist system.

If successful, this "culture of critique" results, deliberately, in the immiseration of all people it is inflicted upon.

Now it just so happens that I saw someone post on Twitter a letter to Karl Marx from his father. Marx's writings created the "culture of critique" and he announced the scheme to engage in never-ending denunciation of the bourgeois comfort he was born into, with the idea that if enough communists engage in this coordinated Satanic rite of mass denunciation, it will bring civilized society down, dying from a million cuts from angry, spiteful, bitter, mentally-ill communists.

I thought maybe the letter was a fugazy but no, it's entirely real.

Karl Marx's father scolded him for not replying to any of his letters, except in a "fragmentary" "embittered" rant. He then scolded Marx for being permanently bitter about his state, despite having grown up in material comfort with all of the advantages in life.

I've bolded the key part but I'm including all of it. Skip to the bold if you're impatient.

Have you still your headquarters in Stralow? At this time of year and in the land where no lemon trees are in bloom, can this be thinkable? But where are you then? That is the question, and for a practical man the first requirement for correspondence is to know an address. Therefore, I have to take advantage of the kindness of others.

In other words, Karl Marx is a transient with no fixed abode and does not update his father on his current whereabouts. But he "takes advantage of the kindness of others," which I assume means he gave this letter to a mutual friend to deliver to the itinerant communist dipshit.

An address, however, is form, and precisely that seems to be your weak side. Things may well be different as regards material?

His father's kind of witty. He's mocking the idea that Marx has no "material" to write to him about.

At least, one should suppose so, if one bears in mind: 1) that you have no lack of subject-matter, 2) that your situation is serious enough to arouse great interest, 3) that your father is perhaps somewhat partial in his attachment to you, etc., etc., etc., and yet after an interval of two months, the second of which caused me some unpleasant hours full of anxiety, I received a letter without form or content, a torn fragment saying nothing, which stood in no relation to what went before it and had no connection with the future!
If a correspondence is to be of interest and value, it must have consistency, and the writer must necessarily have his last letter before his eyes, as also the last reply. Your last letter but one contained much that excited my expectation. I had written a number of letters which asked for information on my points. And instead of all that, I received a letter of bits and fragments, and, what is much worse, an embittered letter.

Marx was a manic-depressive lunatic, as one could gather from his Exclamation-Point-Riddled-Rants!!!, and I imagine the last fragmentary letter to his father was written in his style of deranged excitement and denunciation, which caused the poor dad to worry.

Frankly speaking, my dear Karl, I do not like this modern word ["embittered"], which all weaklings use to cloak their feelings when they quarrel with the world because they do not possess, without labour or trouble, well-furnished palaces with vast sums of money and elegant carriages. This embitterment disgusts me and you are the last person from whom I would expect it. What grounds can you have for it? Has not everything smiled on you ever since your cradle? Has not nature endowed you with magnificent talents? Have not your parents lavished affection on you? Have you ever up to now been unable to satisfy your reasonable wishes? And have you not carried away in the most incomprehensible fashion the heart of a girl whom thousands envy you? Yet the first untoward event, the first disappointed wish, evokes embitterment! Is that strength? Is that a manly character?

FUCKING GO OFF KING!

You yourself had declared, in dry words, that you would be satisfied with assurances for the future, and because of them renounce all outward signs for the present. Did you not make that renunciation word for word in writing? And only children complain about the word they have given when they begin to feel pressure.

I don't know what this means but the sense I get is that Marx has pestered his father relentlessly for money, writing only when he needed some, and at some point angrily declared he would trouble him no further for it, and now the father is asking: Did you not tell me directly that you would no longer make demands on my wallet? Are you a "child" who now regrets that declaration and seeks to undo it?

Yet here too your luck holds. Your good mother, who has a softer heart than I have and to whom it still very often occurs that we too were once the plaything of the little blind rogue, sounded the alarm, and the all too good parents of your Jenny could hardly wait for the moment when the poor, wounded heart would be consoled, and the recipe is undoubtedly already in your hands, if a defective address has not caused the epistle to go astray.
Time is limited, for Sophie is to take the letter before the post to the von Westphalens, who now live far away, and this good opportunity also was announced to me only today, so that I must conclude. As a matter of fact, at present I would not know what to say, at most I could only put questions to you, and I do not like to be importunate. Only one thing more my Herr Son will still allow me, namely, to express my surprise that I have still not received any request for money! Or do you perhaps want already now to make up for it from the too great amount taken? It's a little too early for that.

I think the means "I am surprised I have not received a demand for money since your last one," as he goes on to mention "too great amount [of money already] taken."

Your dear mother refused to reconcile herself entirely to the fact that you did not come home in the autumn as the others did. If it is too long for you and dear mother until next autumn, you could come for the Easter vacation.

What a shock, a spoiled communist, refusing to pay his parents any kindness, only writing when he needs more money to continue loafing around without contributing anything to society (and indeed, as the fullness of time will reveal, doing a great deal to destroy it.)

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:43 PM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 03:42 PM (2YhKe)

2 The people will demand Barbeque and Buc-Ee's when they return to Europe.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 03:43 PM (2YhKe)

3 LOLGF, Atlantic.

AMERICA, F$?&@ YEAH!!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 22, 2026 03:44 PM (4KUe5)

4 One thing that struck me in Italy: all their stores are tiny. Now granted this is Rome where you do not exactly have a ton of space unless you want to demolish a 2000 year old building, but come on.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 22, 2026 03:44 PM (zZu0s)

5 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at June 22, 2026 03:46 PM (Lx4gz)

6 We're rich, have good tasting food, and are generally kind of happy outside the cities.

But they have public transport and single payer healthcare queues to make them feel better when they get home.

Also, it takes as long to drive across Texas as it does to get halfway across Western Europe.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 03:46 PM (Zn6QU)

7 One thing not mentioned by the Atlantic?

We didn’t have to build any stadiums like past host countries have done.
Why?
Because we had so many FOOTBALL stadiums, both NFL and SEC that could easily host an international event.

Because… America is awesome!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 22, 2026 03:47 PM (4KUe5)

8 The left, on the other hand, doesn't think it's a nice story at all. They hate America for its riches and simultaneously curse it for having so much poverty. Choose a lane, guys.

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I've said it before, and I'll say it again.

The American left's critique of America is not actually a critique of America. It's a critique of Democrat-run urban existence extrapolated out to the rest of the country.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 03:47 PM (Zn6QU)

9 They are doing the same thing on YouTube. It's an obvious concerted effort to lessen the positivity being displayed by foreigners.

And, while I'd initially put it into the category of individual "Karens" ...I think there might be some intelligence agencies orchestrating the current onslaught of disagreement and negativity. I'd be curious how many bots are active on some of those video comments.

Posted by: Orson at June 22, 2026 03:47 PM (dIske)

10 7 One thing not mentioned by the Atlantic?

We didn’t have to build any stadiums like past host countries have done.
Why?
Because we had so many FOOTBALL stadiums, both NFL and SEC that could easily host an international event.

Because… America is awesome!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 22, 2026 03:47 PM (4KUe5)

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But it's not their preferred sport of soccer, so it doesn't count.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 03:48 PM (Zn6QU)

11 From now on it's football. I will never use the word soccer again. Ever.

Why? To piss off the NFL.

Posted by: ... at June 22, 2026 03:48 PM (22ggK)

12 HEB is the greatest grocery store ever! I'm lucky to live close to two of them, and to have a Buccee's just down the road a bit.

Also lucky to have a ranch in far west Texas where I can visit anytime. It's God's country and it's beautiful. It makes we weep with joy, too.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 22, 2026 03:48 PM (k9OZB)

13 Karl Marx's father scolded him for not replying to any of his letters, except in a "fragmentary" "embittered" rant. He then scolded Marx for being permanently bitter about his state, despite having grown up in material comfort with all of the advantages in life.

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Get in time machine.
Give Papa Marx a gun.
"Nothing good is coming of this bastard of yours. Just put him out of his misery."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 03:49 PM (Zn6QU)

14 This is a mighty fine punchbowl...
... for me to POOP in

Posted by: the Atlantic at June 22, 2026 03:49 PM (gKWVE)

15 Boston ran out of beer. All they had left is some Bud Lite
How could Boston run out of beer? It even sounds strange to say it.

Posted by: Case at June 22, 2026 03:50 PM (IY9No)

16
14 This is a mighty fine punchbowl...
... for me to POOP in

Posted by: the Atlantic at June 22, 2026 03:49 PM (gKWVE)

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WAY too witty and pithy for The Atlantic.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 03:50 PM (Zn6QU)

17
That "one pancake" is sus to this American!

It must have been Pancake Tower or something.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 22, 2026 03:50 PM (XJ22o)

18 don't skip out on the Karl Marx letter from his father!

It's so perfect you'd think it had to be right-wing op itself!

Posted by: Lamont the Big Dummy at June 22, 2026 03:50 PM (1wjle)

19 The funniest ones I saw were the Euros marveling that the yellow school buses were real. Most of them just thought that was from cartoons.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 22, 2026 03:50 PM (n5tGW)

20 lol
"Milk, bread, and an air rifle!"

Posted by: wth at June 22, 2026 03:50 PM (UjdFS)

21 Don’t take anhedonic if you are allergic to anhedonic, or to any of its ingredients.

Posted by: Bulg at June 22, 2026 03:50 PM (77rzZ)

22 I saw an internet rumor that TSA had to issue a public statement reminding Euros that bottles of ranch must be packed in checked luggage, not carry-ons. Too beaucoup.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 22, 2026 03:51 PM (w/O5Q)

23 Posted by: Lamont the Big Dummy at June 22, 2026 03:50 PM (1wjle)

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Why Lamont today?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 03:51 PM (Zn6QU)

24 Videos of Brits discovering Buc-ee's and Texas BBQ are outright delightful. Breaks their minds in the absolute best possible ways. Whats also interesting is how ignorant and propagandized they are about America once they first arrive. Some man on the street interviews of various furriners of what they think America is like or American food is like (before they've yet experienced it) are astonishing. It's like they've been getting their knowledge about it America third-hand from North Korean government or something.

Posted by: Walmart and Target make them swoon at June 22, 2026 03:51 PM (TbWk/)

25 I've really enjoyed all the "World Cup fans experience America" videos.

I have to laugh though. American food portions are big. Too Big?

Posted by: WisRich at June 22, 2026 03:51 PM (G0vdT)

26 Every cut of every animal ever domesticated by human civilization available in one refrigerated aisle

we're eating the dogs
we're eating the cats
we're eating the pets of the people that live here

Posted by: anachronda at June 22, 2026 03:51 PM (sGtp+)

27 Parents really knew how to write letters back then...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 22, 2026 03:51 PM (gnNyN)

28 America is objectively great! Suck it, lefties!

Posted by: LASue at June 22, 2026 03:52 PM (bOS38)

29 We didn’t have to build any stadiums like past host countries have done.
Why?
Because we had so many FOOTBALL stadiums, both NFL and SEC that could easily host an international event.

Because… America is awesome!

Posted by: Lizzy

If we still had women's lingerie football, they'd never go home. Women's roller derby also.

Just saying.

Posted by: Buttigig at June 22, 2026 03:52 PM (ItpVy)

30 The other joy has been the American people!
Again and again, these visitors report kindness and friendships. The “Tartan Army” declared Bostonians friendly, for Pete’s sake! Freddy has gotten so many presents and offers for free travel/accommodations he short-circuited, lol.

We are not dumb bigots and jerks, dear Atlantic writer. In fact, based on social media accounts, we normie Americans in flyover states are pretty dang fabulous.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 22, 2026 03:53 PM (4KUe5)

31 Isn't there a statue of Marx in Seattle? Or is that Mussolini? I forget.

Communist f*cktards.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 03:53 PM (2YhKe)

32 Some hotties in those vids. The Blade can show them some things, ya know. Things not meant for TikTok. Trust The Blade. He aims to please.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 22, 2026 03:53 PM (iFTx/)

33 "Europeans Visiting the US for the World Cup Have Been Marveling At American Plenty, So the Left-Wing Bitter Widow Vanity Magazine "The Atlantic" Tries to Prove It's All a Right-Wing Psyop"

Why? That's a serious question. Are they trying to keep their 200 readers from jumping ship or something? Because their audience is limited to the most diehard leftists and this article is not reaching anyone else.

Maybe it's just a reflex response to anything that shows America is a good country.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 22, 2026 03:53 PM (0N4FZ)

34 Also, it takes as long to drive across Texas as it does to get halfway across Western Europe."

Scotland to Northern Italy. It's amazing.

American tourists ride shiny trains and walk thru pretty museums. Those of us who have worked in European countries have sat in endless traffic jams, lived with minimal choices, paid insane prices for simple goods, been packed in with more people in less space...

I'm in Texas. They can have uurup

Posted by: man at June 22, 2026 03:53 PM (XuXeR)

35 Tourists are bringing back ranch dressing as a souvenir ??
OK, fine..as long as they are going back.

Posted by: runner at June 22, 2026 03:54 PM (GD0B3)

36 >>>31 Isn't there a statue of Marx in Seattle? Or is that Mussolini? I forget.

there's a Lenin one in NYC (obvi)

Posted by: Lamont the Big Dummy at June 22, 2026 03:54 PM (1wjle)

37 "Joy" is a dirty word to communists. They are anhedonic, unable to take pleasure in the joys of life, so out of spite they seek to deny joy to others.

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Au contraire, mon frere. They know joy and pleasure - the sadistic glee of dominance for its own sake. It requires the infliction of misery on everyone they behold, that's all.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 22, 2026 03:54 PM (BI5O2)

38 Said to be shot dead by mistake by a female officer.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

Video.

https://tinyurl.com/ykfz4cxe

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 22, 2026 03:54 PM (ndZc7)

39 Another factor someone brought up is that the fanbases coming tend to be more...working class. Less averagely wealthy than people like those who travel for the Olympics.

So, you get working class Germans and Brits driving through rural parts of America, and it feels a bit like home but, you know, with more trees, bigger parking lots, and more to buy in the stores.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 03:54 PM (Zn6QU)

40 Isn't there a statue of Marx in Seattle? Or is that Mussolini? I forget.

Communist f*cktards.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 03:53 PM (2YhKe)
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Lenin.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 22, 2026 03:54 PM (amcLV)

41 Marx is buried in London. Just saying.

Posted by: runner at June 22, 2026 03:55 PM (GD0B3)

42 "We're rich"

We're $40T in debt. We live rich. We aren't rich-rich.

Posted by: gp at June 22, 2026 03:55 PM (Jr5Lq)

43
Why Lamont today?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 03:51 PM (Zn6QU)

He shit the bed a LOT last week.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 03:55 PM (2YhKe)

44 There is honest to God poverty in this country - I've seen it on certain tribal areas, for instance - but by and large it is not what people think it is. It is certainly not what the Leftists claim it is. Like everything else, it's just a propaganda tool to be used against us.

If adults have cars to drive and a roof over their heads, and every black child I see is walking around with a smart phone, then you know, we're not quite the third world, yet. Politically perhaps, but otherwise...

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at June 22, 2026 03:55 PM (QaH55)

45 It is actually heartening to see how much the World Cup travelers are enjoying the USA. Their amazement, humor (Norwegians rowing), and even putting snooty Boston Irishmen to shame by outdrinking them. All the while picking up after themselves and not leaving trash everywhere. After all these many years hearing MSM and politicians telling us how much America sucks and how evil we are, seeing these fans revel in all that the USA has to offer is very refreshing.

Posted by: Martha Stewart at June 22, 2026 03:55 PM (N39Ws)

46 43
Why Lamont today?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 03:51 PM (Zn6QU)

He shit the bed a LOT last week.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 03:55 PM (2YhKe)

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Depends?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 03:55 PM (Zn6QU)

47 Off Gay, incompetent sock!!

Posted by: Tonypete at June 22, 2026 03:55 PM (ItpVy)

48 Who is buried in Marx's Tomb?

Posted by: ... at June 22, 2026 03:56 PM (22ggK)

49 ---------
Lenin.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 22, 2026 03:54 PM (amcLV)

So much better.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 03:56 PM (2YhKe)

50 Saw a funny one on TV this morning: Some Brit guy:
"Now I know why Americans like their big trucks!"

Posted by: wth at June 22, 2026 03:56 PM (UjdFS)

51 I read that the beer consumption in Boston by the tartan army was four times more than on St Patrick’s day. The bars were getting emergency deliveries to keep up, heh.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 22, 2026 03:56 PM (4KUe5)

52 35 Tourists are bringing back ranch dressing as a souvenir ??
OK, fine..as long as they are going back.
Posted by: runner at June 22, 2026 03:54 PM (GD0B3)
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I saw one European explain that although a lot of "American" food has made it over to Europe, Ranch Dressing is one food item that hasn't. Weird.

Posted by: WisRich at June 22, 2026 03:56 PM (G0vdT)

53 >>>He shit the bed a LOT last week.....

yup. Lamont needs to be shamed for a few more days.

Posted by: Lamont the Big Dummy at June 22, 2026 03:56 PM (1wjle)

54
Depends?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 03:55 PM (Zn6QU)

I mean, he had open HTML tags in something like 4 threads in a ROW one day. Then removed an entire post for 20 minutes, after it was up for 30, to fix it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 03:56 PM (2YhKe)

55 Twenty-five years ago, the American and European Union economies were about the same size.

Thist is no longer true. The Europeans have focused on the pursuit "Net-Zero", regulation, and importing even more basically unproductive people than the United States has.

Just imagine what it will be like in another twenty-five years...

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 22, 2026 03:57 PM (aD4fx)

56 I thought the US was still pretty darn good even when Obama and Biden were fucking it over. To the left, the US can't possibly be good under any Republican president. I hate the left.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 22, 2026 03:57 PM (Dv3i1)

57
The American left's critique of America is not actually a critique of America. It's a critique of Democrat-run urban existence extrapolated out to the rest of the country.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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I've watched a LOT of "We fled Trump's America" videos on social media. Invariably, these people take their 2 large dogs and 3 kids to... the whitest possible area of The Netherlands, the quaintest areas of Italy, the touristic coasts of Mexico, areas of Spain or Portugal that specifically serve expats, etc. And a running theme is, "It's safe here, no guns, no street crime."

Do these people know why those things happen in America, and WHERE they happen? All they ever had to do was leave the big blue city in the blue state and move to some high-trust Republican suburb.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 22, 2026 03:57 PM (XJ22o)

58 This reminds me of Russians visiting the US in the 80s and they would start crying in the grocery store.

Our poor people are fat. That really tells you everything you need to know about America.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 22, 2026 03:57 PM (fr+Kt)

59 Another factor someone brought up is that the fanbases coming tend to be more...working class. Less averagely wealthy than people like those who travel for the Olympics.

So, you get working class Germans and Brits driving through rural parts of America, and it feels a bit like home but, you know, with more trees, bigger parking lots, and more to buy in the stores.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 03:54 PM (Zn6QU)
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Yea. Also, they are travelling to the USA for the first time for a sports game. USA has some of the most popular international destinations in the world. But these people have never been here before. Suggests they aren't part of the affluent classes.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 22, 2026 03:57 PM (iFTx/)

60 Joy, beauty, goodness all are uber bad words in democratic-communism. Expect them to be banned if another democratic-communist cheats their way to the presidency.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 22, 2026 03:57 PM (xvV+O)

61 Don't get many third world illegals making videos about how great America is.

Posted by: ... at June 22, 2026 03:57 PM (22ggK)

62 So, I guess all those Scots invading Boston was just my imagination?

Posted by: Diogenes at June 22, 2026 03:58 PM (2WIwB)

63 "We have roads wide enough for the cars we actually drive."

I took a trip with my family via cruise to Greece and Turkey. We spent some time in Athens before we left. Apparently a "3 lane" highway in Athens is really a 5-land highway with the cycles using the white lines as their own lanes. I was also amazed at all the tagged surfaces in Athens, although I didn't know what most of them read other than the anti-IDF and "free Gaza/Palestine" nonsense.

Posted by: Thrawn at June 22, 2026 03:58 PM (KKMoa)

64
yup. Lamont needs to be shamed for a few more days.
Posted by: Lamont the Big Dummy at June 22, 2026 03:56 PM (1wjle)

We appreciate your self-deprecation efforts.

Seems "learn to code" should actually be a thing, especially if you run your own blog.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 03:58 PM (2YhKe)

65 "Now I know why Americans like their big trucks!"
Posted by: wth

I like big trucks and I cannot lie.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 22, 2026 03:58 PM (ndZc7)

66 “ There is only one kind of pleasure allowed on earth, and that is to agitate for communism and "critique" -- meaning "relentlessly attack with invective both fair and fictitious until it collapses due to the sheer weight of hate heaped upon it" -- any functional, working capitalist system.”

There’s one more kind of pleasure the commies like: getting rodgered up the squeak hole.

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at June 22, 2026 03:59 PM (6A7dD)

67 I'm...gonna set myself up for massive flaming, but I think a lot of these videos are just people making them because they are popular and will get lots of clicks. Sure, some of them are genuine, but most are "look at this hamburger". I'm pretty sure they have hamburgers in Europe.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 22, 2026 03:59 PM (Riz8t)

68 I saw one European explain that although a lot of "American" food has made it over to Europe, Ranch Dressing is one food item that hasn't. Weird.
Posted by: WisRich at June 22, 2026 03:56 PM (G0vdT)
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I'm still waiting to see German Spezi show up in the soft-drink aisle at Walmart.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 22, 2026 03:59 PM (gnNyN)

69 59
Yea. Also, they are travelling to the USA for the first time for a sports game. USA has some of the most popular international destinations in the world. But these people have never been here before. Suggests they aren't part of the affluent classes.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 22, 2026 03:57 PM (iFTx/)

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The average European thinks that New York City and Los Angeles are a few hours apart by car, and that the only thing to see outside of them is Chicago (maybe Miami).

Their thinking of America is very urban and very centered on the largest urban areas.

Learning that there are countries of people and things to do in between has got to be eye-opening to them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 03:59 PM (Zn6QU)

70 "If adults have cars to drive and a roof over their heads" [and the insurance required for both]

That's progressively more difficult to do.

Posted by: gp at June 22, 2026 03:59 PM (Jr5Lq)

71 Hating America (under Republicans) is actually the truth. The lie is when they say they like it under a Democrat.

Posted by: ... at June 22, 2026 03:59 PM (22ggK)

72 Au contraire, mon frere. They know joy and pleasure - the sadistic glee of dominance for its own sake.

“But always – do not forget this, Winston – always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.”

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 22, 2026 03:59 PM (aD4fx)

73 Of all the many foreigners I've met abroad, the English have the most grossly distorted view of our country, oddly enough. They think every American schoolchild has been shot before they're old enough for their first orgy.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 22, 2026 04:00 PM (BI5O2)

74 What used to be critical thinking is now a skinsuit for the application of critical theory.
And the schools teach it as critical thinking, when it is in fact deconstruction by dialectic.
And they all come out of school mentally ill, on meds, angry, and hundreds of thousands in debt for the "privilege".

Posted by: barbarausa at June 22, 2026 04:00 PM (enw9G)

75 Ranch is one of my least-favorite dressings. Odd that the Euros would be so excited about it.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 22, 2026 04:00 PM (iFTx/)

76 68 I'm still waiting to see German Spezi show up in the soft-drink aisle at Walmart.

i'm right here, you know

Posted by: orange coke at June 22, 2026 04:00 PM (sGtp+)

77 Better a statue of a dead commie in the square than a live one in office.Oh....

Posted by: steevy at June 22, 2026 04:01 PM (YwEeS)

78 Yeah, … , saw a twywith two pictures from Boston.
The first one was the Haiti fans marching with demands we do more for Haiti, the second was the happy Scots marching with their bagpipes and that they raised $30k for some local charity.

Gee, could it be more obvious?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 22, 2026 04:01 PM (4KUe5)

79
It's like they've been getting their knowledge about it America third-hand from North Korean government or something.
Posted by: Walmart and Target make them swoon

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Effectively, they have. The "or something" is the MSM. Same the world over.

In a few of those videos, the Europeans flat-out say "We were lied to."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 22, 2026 04:01 PM (XJ22o)

80 71 Hating America (under Republicans) is actually the truth. The lie is when they say they like it under a Democrat.

Posted by: ... at June 22, 2026 03:59 PM (22ggK)

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"I respected America when Biden was president. I understood that he was trying to fix the situation of the homeless man outside my hotel in New York who kept masturbating on my as I walked past. But I can't respect America under Trump. I drove from Nashville to Chattanooga. Sure, I didn't get accosted by a homeless person, but I feared for my life because I knew that ICE was going to assassinate me the second I fell asleep. I haven't slept in 8 days!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 04:01 PM (Zn6QU)

81 68 I'm still waiting to see German Spezi show up in the soft-drink aisle at Walmart.

i'm right here, you know
Posted by: orange coke at June 22, 2026 04:00 PM (sGtp+)
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It's not the same...but I may give it a try.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 22, 2026 04:01 PM (gnNyN)

82 75 Ranch is one of my least-favorite dressings. Odd that the Euros would be so excited about it.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 22, 2026 04:00 PM (iFTx/)

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They've never had mayonnaise flavored before.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 04:01 PM (Zn6QU)

83 >>>Ranch is one of my least-favorite dressings. Odd that the Euros would be so excited about it.

It's okay. I don't get why some people love it but it's okay.

Though I get angry if get wings and they include ranch instead of blue cheese. At that point, I do hate ranch.

Posted by: Lamont the Big Dummy at June 22, 2026 04:01 PM (1wjle)

84 73 Their media only reports the worst.

Posted by: steevy at June 22, 2026 04:02 PM (YwEeS)

85 One of the compelling aspects of the videos I’ve seen are the surprise at the lack of bollards, that products outside of supermarkets are often not locked up—including products Europe would consider very dangerous, and would in fact be dangerous, in Europe.

I don’t think we can emphasize too strongly that this aspect of Europe is where the left wants to lead us today, where terrorism is a right of terrorists, and every part of the landscape is designed with that in mind.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 22, 2026 04:02 PM (kYmoU)

86 70 "If adults have cars to drive and a roof over their heads" [and the insurance required for both]

That's progressively more difficult to do.

but even a caveman can do it!

Posted by: anachronda at June 22, 2026 04:02 PM (sGtp+)

87 'Murica, Fuck Yeah!

Now for foreign visitors too.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at June 22, 2026 04:02 PM (Q/FnY)

88 On the flip side, you don't see many overweight Europeans in those videos.

*shrugs* It is what it is.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 22, 2026 04:02 PM (jehhT)

89 I sure hope some of the visitors mosey into an area where individuals can light off some fireworks. I'm guessing that's generally frowned upon at home.

(I'm also thinking they have hit upon the source of our obesity issue... really Olive Garden was the best pasta she's ever had?)

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at June 22, 2026 04:02 PM (z/ed7)

90 83 It's okay. I don't get why some people love it but it's okay.

Though I get angry if get wings and they include ranch instead of blue cheese. At that point, I do hate ranch.

Posted by: Lamont the Big Dummy at June 22, 2026 04:01 PM (1wjle)

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I also prefer the blue cheese.

But ranch gets Second Junior to snack on carrots, so it's a net positive.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 04:02 PM (Zn6QU)

91 75 Ranch is one of my least-favorite dressings. Odd that the Euros would be so excited about it.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 22, 2026 04:00 PM (iFTx/)

Same, I don't really like it. I will eat it but I wouldn't choose it.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 22, 2026 04:02 PM (fr+Kt)

92 Bleu cheese is too French ace.

Posted by: steevy at June 22, 2026 04:03 PM (YwEeS)

93 84 73 Their media only reports the worst.

Posted by: steevy at June 22, 2026 04:02 PM (YwEeS)

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It'd be like if any of us traveled to England and then spent 9/10 of the time outside London.

We'd probably have a great time talking about how nice the people are and how beautiful the countryside is.

Wouldn't be praising the food, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 04:03 PM (Zn6QU)

94 75 Ranch is one of my least-favorite dressings.

you know what you never see anymore? french dressing. used to be everyone had it. now all they have is ranch and italian.

Posted by: anachronda at June 22, 2026 04:03 PM (sGtp+)

95 Blue cheese is ranch with nasty, moldy rotten chunks in it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 04:03 PM (2YhKe)

96 Yea. Also, they are travelling to the USA for the first time for a sports game. USA has some of the most popular international destinations in the world. But these people have never been here before. Suggests they aren't part of the affluent classes.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 22, 2026 03:57 PM (iFTx/)

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The average European thinks that New York City and Los Angeles are a few hours apart by car, and that the only thing to see outside of them is Chicago (maybe Miami).

Their thinking of America is very urban and very centered on the largest urban areas.

Learning that there are countries of people and things to do in between has got to be eye-opening to them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 03:59 PM (Zn6QU)
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Yuge European (and Australian) tourism to much more rural USA areas like ski resorts, Yellowstone, Glacier, etc. These are mostly more affluent Euros, though.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 22, 2026 04:04 PM (iFTx/)

97 6 We're rich, have good tasting food, and are generally kind of happy outside the cities.

But they have public transport and single payer healthcare queues to make them feel better when they get home.

Also, it takes as long to drive across Texas as it does to get halfway across Western Europe.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 03:46 PM (Zn6QU)

The majority of Americans don't have passports. In 2008, only about 30% of Americans had them - it's gone up significantly since then. Most of the world scoffed at us because of this, wondering why we were so insular. Wouldn't it be great to see the rest of the world?

It is great to see the world. I think this World Cup is showing the world, however, that if we have our little slice of heaven right here, what's the point of going elsewhere?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 22, 2026 04:04 PM (eShkR)

98
I'm...gonna set myself up for massive flaming, but I think a lot of these videos are just people making them because they are popular and will get lots of clicks. Sure, some of them are genuine, but most are "look at this hamburger". I'm pretty sure they have hamburgers in Europe.
Posted by: Archimedes

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Nahh, they could just as easily get clicks by taking video of awful scenes in America and saying "Yup, this place is shit all right." Milk is watery, vegetables are all fiber, coffee is hot water with a brown crayon dipped in it, etc. (Hey, that last sentence is true!)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 22, 2026 04:04 PM (XJ22o)

99 The Chipotle-eating Aussie in the video is welcome to stay. Her and her twin peaks.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at June 22, 2026 04:04 PM (bNf8H)

100 Thousand Island is the king of dressings.

Posted by: steevy at June 22, 2026 04:05 PM (YwEeS)

101 Ranch is one of my least-favorite dressings. Odd that the Euros would be so excited about it.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 22, 2026 04:00 PM (iFTx/)

Blech, ranch. Blue cheese all the way, extra chunky!!

Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 22, 2026 04:05 PM (k9OZB)

102 Also, it takes as long to drive across Texas as it does to get halfway across Western Europe.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 03:46 PM (Zn6QU)

They really don't get the scope of the US until they get here and travel around. You can cross multiple national borders in Western Yurp in the time it would take you to drive from the southern end of Florida to Pensacola, and that's not including the Keys. It's funny that they think of us as being provincial.

Posted by: It's a big damn country at June 22, 2026 04:05 PM (TbWk/)

103 I'm pretty sure they have hamburgers in Europe"

Well...kinda. Not really. Sorta. It's the blend of meats and the cheeses. And the size. The idea of a mound of tasty food requiring a big mouthful....

Posted by: man at June 22, 2026 04:05 PM (XuXeR)

104 85 that products outside of supermarkets are often not locked up—including products Europe would consider very dangerous, and would in fact be dangerous, in Europe.

this is about ranch dressing, isn't it?

Posted by: anachronda at June 22, 2026 04:05 PM (sGtp+)

105 Nahh, they could just as easily get clicks by taking video of awful scenes in America and saying "Yup, this place is shit all right." Milk is watery, vegetables are all fiber, coffee is hot water with a brown crayon dipped in it, etc. (Hey, that last sentence is true!)

Fair point.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 22, 2026 04:06 PM (Riz8t)

106 If you have kids you know how popular ranch is, gallons and gallons until they graduate high school.

But yeah, it's blue cheese or die if wings are involved.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 22, 2026 04:06 PM (n5tGW)

107 95 Blue cheese is ranch with nasty, moldy rotten chunks in it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 04:03 PM (2YhKe)

The steakhouse I worked at used to make all their dressings and for some reason they baked a big tray of Roquefort in the oven prior to mixing in with the other ingredients. That was the worst smell I think I've ever had the misfortune of smelling. Indoors.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 22, 2026 04:06 PM (fr+Kt)

108 They're hosting World Cup games at Gillette.

I'd like to see videos of Euros there. If they're waxing eloquent about the excellence of Boston, you know they're just farming for clicks.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 22, 2026 04:06 PM (BI5O2)

109 I count myself very lucky to have lived in America's most prosperous and highest quality-of-life era.

Posted by: gp at June 22, 2026 04:06 PM (Jr5Lq)

110 I've been saying it for a few decades now. If a country wants to do something, they need to make it where Americans want to defect to there.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 04:06 PM (2YhKe)

111 That's progressively more difficult to do.

but even a caveman can do it!
Posted by: anachronda

You just know there were more than a few serious claims of racism regarding how the cavemen were portrayed.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 22, 2026 04:06 PM (ItpVy)

112 100 Thousand Island is the king of dressings.

you'd think that if it rules a thousand islands it would be an emperor.

Posted by: anachronda at June 22, 2026 04:06 PM (sGtp+)

113 I got a tickle out of one kickball tourist being gobsmacked at the high school football stadium.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 22, 2026 04:06 PM (wVcYX)

114 Ranch is one of my least-favorite dressings. Odd that the Euros would be so excited about it.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Same, I don't really like it. I will eat it but I wouldn't choose it.
Posted by: CaliGirl
......

We have so many options. They would probably orgasm over some good BBQ sauce.

Posted by: wth at June 22, 2026 04:06 PM (UjdFS)

115 We love these Euro-videos. And, also the videos of Japanese fans cleaning their area of a stadium after a game. Those guys rock.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 22, 2026 04:06 PM (4nevv)

116 Dems hate it when 100,000 people march through a city cheering and singing, and not a single bus is burned, a single woman raped, or a single store looted.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 22, 2026 04:06 PM (2WIwB)

117 Plenty of fatties in old blighty.

Posted by: steevy at June 22, 2026 04:07 PM (YwEeS)

118 Here in God's country, we can afford more than one salad dressing. My favorites are thousand island, Vidalia onion, honey mustard, and French.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 22, 2026 04:07 PM (ndZc7)

119 97 The majority of Americans don't have passports. In 2008, only about 30% of Americans had them - it's gone up significantly since then. Most of the world scoffed at us because of this, wondering why we were so insular. Wouldn't it be great to see the rest of the world?

It is great to see the world. I think this World Cup is showing the world, however, that if we have our little slice of heaven right here, what's the point of going elsewhere?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 22, 2026 04:04 PM (eShkR)

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Latest I saw was that it's not 51% of Americans who have passports.

But, yeah, we live in a huge country with so much to see and do. There's often little need to go to another country to "see the world". I can live in Florida, go see new mountains in Colorado, old mountains in Virginia, buildings older than what's standing in Vienna by going to New England, housing older than the vast majority of Europe in Arizona, and wilds like they can't believe in Alaska.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 04:07 PM (Zn6QU)

120
How do you get a sorority girl to suck your dick?

Put ranch on it

Posted by: the dandy at June 22, 2026 04:07 PM (8l8nW)

121 The majority of Americans don't have passports. In 2008, only about 30% of Americans had them - it's gone up significantly since then. Most of the world scoffed at us because of this, wondering why we were so insular. Wouldn't it be great to see the rest of the world?

It is great to see the world. I think this World Cup is showing the world, however, that if we have our little slice of heaven right here, what's the point of going elsewhere?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 22, 2026 04:04 PM (eShkR)

I think because we don't need passports to get to different climates or geographically different areas.

We have mountains, oceans,rivers, beaches,volcanoes, plains, and deserts. I don't think any European nation has the same.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, preparing for The Reckoning at June 22, 2026 04:07 PM (p8HMw)

122 On the subject of ranch dressing, as I said above I'm not a big fan, but try Chic-fil-A branded "Avocado Lime Ranch" dressing. It's really good. Sounds like something dripping out of James Talarico's anus, but it's really good. Can get it in the refrigerated sections of supermarkets.

My fav go-to is ceasar, but this ALR is now in my main rotation.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 22, 2026 04:08 PM (iFTx/)

123 Remember the concern lefties have with Americans having so much is because NORMAL Americans have it so good.

They want you to live "sustainably" while they take your tax dollars to fly all over the world to attend global warming seminars...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 22, 2026 04:08 PM (sKqQm)

124 I grew up in America. I've felt the same way those Europeans do every day of my life.

Posted by: huerfano at June 22, 2026 04:08 PM (VJX5o)

125 >>>@22 I saw an internet rumor that TSA had to issue a public statement reminding Euros that bottles of ranch
must be packed in checked luggage, not carry-ons. Too beaucoup ... Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls,
I'm starvin' over here at June 22, 2026 03:51 PM (w/O5Q)
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Below is a recipe I posted late in yesterday's Food Thread ... Free free to share it with any and all of your European friends ... Only two challenges I foresee are finding
mayonnaise comparable to Hellman's, and packages of powdered pectic which do not include sugar (might need to shop at health food stores or pharmacies).
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RANCH DRESSING: Hidden Valley clone -- makes 2 cups

1 cup mayonnaise (Hellman's or Duke's, not MiracleWhip)
1 cup store-bought buttermilk* OR
*1 cup whole milk + 1 tsp. cream of tartar
1 tsp. dried parsley
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. ground black pepper
1/4 tsp. garlic powder
1/4 tsp. onion powder
1/8 tsp. dried thyme powder

Combine all ingredients in a bowl ... Stir, chill, then stir again until uniform ... To thicken, gradually add Sure-Jell powdered pectin in 1/8 tsp. increments until the dressing is as thick as you want it to be.

Posted by: Kathy at June 22, 2026 04:08 PM (MOK4W)

126 Their thinking of America is very urban and very centered on the largest urban areas.

Learning that there are countries of people and things to do in between has got to be eye-opening to them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 03:59 PM (Zn6QU)
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Yep, the fact the put a lot of these matches in middle America and the South is giving the tourists a fresh perspective on the USA and our hospitality.

Posted by: WisRich at June 22, 2026 04:08 PM (G0vdT)

127 95 Blue cheese is ranch with nasty, moldy rotten chunks in it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 04:03 PM (2YhKe)
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That's another one of those "dare foods". Oh, look. The cheese has mold on it. I dare you to eat that.

This is the common process for about 90% of out current diet. Two drunk guys making bets on whether the other one will eat it. Oysters, clams, Ox tongue, blood pie, sausage.

Every single one of those was a drunk infused dare.

Posted by: Orson at June 22, 2026 04:08 PM (dIske)

128 I'm pretty sure they have hamburgers in Europe.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 22, 2026 03:59 PM (Riz8t)

Probably not in the 5 lb. chubs though.

Per a German I know, the stores started losing variety of products about 15 years ago, and a lot of the variety of brands, and even then options of the sizes available for the same item.
Stores are also smaller, focused on a single type of food with fewer general stores. Storage is also a thing, so there is a tendency to buy only for the week or a few days.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 22, 2026 04:08 PM (rbvCR)

129 99 Which video is the Aussie chick with the twin peaks in? I haven’t got all day.

Posted by: Bulg at June 22, 2026 04:08 PM (77rzZ)

130 Expect many more "journalism" pieces explaining that living in a 500 square foot apartment completely dependent on public transportation and having to wait six months for a "free" doctor's appointment means that you are infinitely richer than an American who lives in a 3000 square foot house on a quarter-acre lot who has to drive ten minutes to a Costco.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 22, 2026 04:09 PM (aD4fx)

131 112 100 Thousand Island is the king of dressings.

I invented the One Thousand and One Island dressing!

Posted by: Topper at June 22, 2026 04:09 PM (n9eFH)

132 "If adults have cars to drive and a roof over their heads" [and the insurance required for both]

That's progressively more difficult to do.
Posted by: gp at June 22, 2026

***
Not for us!
( -- Flo's Bros)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2026 04:09 PM (wzUl9)

133 That was the worst smell I think I've ever had the misfortune of smelling. Indoors.
Posted by: CaliGirl

Nah - Tuxes that were returned on Tuesday afternoon after spending a few days all balled up in the back of the car stewing in sweat, beer, cig and weed smoke, body fluids (men and women's) and rejection.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 22, 2026 04:09 PM (ItpVy)

134 I've been expecting the promotion of social media accounts of visitors that aren't having a good time. Can't the media find any?

Posted by: fozzy at June 22, 2026 04:09 PM (zH2yS)

135 126
Yep, the fact the put a lot of these matches in middle America and the South is giving the tourists a fresh perspective on the USA and our hospitality.

Posted by: WisRich at June 22, 2026 04:08 PM (G0vdT)

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Hopefully some end up at gun ranges and see the ease and comfort some of us Americans have with arms.

As they wish they had some themselves.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 04:09 PM (Zn6QU)

136 We are truly the most lucky people, being American. Thank you to all those who fought over there in Europe to protect our country.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 22, 2026 04:09 PM (4nevv)

137
Every single one of those was a drunk infused dare.
Posted by: Orson at June 22, 2026 04:08 PM (dIske)

Agreed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 04:10 PM (2YhKe)

138 130 Expect many more "journalism" pieces explaining that living in a 500 square foot apartment completely dependent on public transportation and having to wait six months for a "free" doctor's appointment means that you are infinitely richer than an American who lives in a 3000 square foot house on a quarter-acre lot who has to drive ten minutes to a Costco.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 22, 2026 04:09 PM (aD4fx)

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"That Costco hot dog will murder you, unlike single payer healthcare."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 04:10 PM (Zn6QU)

139 Ranch is one of my least-favorite dressings.

you know what you never see anymore? french dressing. used to be everyone had it. now all they have is ranch and italian.
Posted by: anachronda at June 22, 2026 04:03 PM (sGtp+)
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You wanna know why? Because French dressing is crap. I also remember it all over the place back in the day. Then it disappeared. Then I saw it at the supermarket and said "hey, here it is, let me try it!"

Mistake. It was much better as myth.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 22, 2026 04:10 PM (iFTx/)

140 Darrell Harris, I’ve seen Europeans on X making that exact point: we used to think you guys we uncultured because so many have never traveled outside the US, but now we get it. You have every possible option here in your giant country, like 50 different cultures, etc., we would never leave, either.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 22, 2026 04:10 PM (4KUe5)

141 I've been expecting the promotion of social media accounts of visitors that aren't having a good time. Can't the media find any?
Posted by: fozzy at June 22, 2026 04:09 PM (zH2yS)

Those are coming from the people visiting Canada.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 04:10 PM (2YhKe)

142 139 Mistake. It was much better as myth.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 22, 2026 04:10 PM (iFTx/)

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Like when Ace finally made friends with a crow?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 04:10 PM (Zn6QU)

143 Just for a bit of contrast, it's worth rereading the classic James Lileks piece on a Brit reporter at Olive Garden. It's hilarious.

https://blogrecord.blogspot.com/2002_02_24_archive.html

Posted by: Archimedes at June 22, 2026 04:11 PM (Riz8t)

144 "The Atlantic" is an embarrassment.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 22, 2026 04:11 PM (7RYym)

145 The woman who said that Olive Garden's Fettuccine Alfredo was the best pasta she'd ever had in her life... so sad.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 22, 2026 04:11 PM (ExV1e)

146 104 85 that products outside of supermarkets are often not locked up—including products Europe would consider very dangerous, and would in fact be dangerous, in Europe.

Propane and propane accessories?

Otherwise I'm not sure what you can do with wiper fluid other than poison dogs ... so, maybe, yeah that would be dangerous in Europe

Posted by: the dandy at June 22, 2026 04:11 PM (8l8nW)

147 Great story break. Thanks ace.

Go USA soccer team. I just want them to win while President Trump is in office. Spread the joy.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 22, 2026 04:11 PM (Sco7b)

148 Ranch dressing is proof that people are stupid and have the palate of a 6 year old. See also, tattoos and wearing their ball caps backwards.

Posted by: Adulting Is Hard Work at June 22, 2026 04:11 PM (9gT2V)

149
>>>That's another one of those "dare foods". Oh, look. The cheese has mold on it. I dare you to eat that.

all cheese has mold on it.

Posted by: Lamont the Big Dummy at June 22, 2026 04:11 PM (1wjle)

150
Nah - Tuxes that were returned on Tuesday afternoon after spending a few days all balled up in the back of the car stewing in sweat, beer, cig and weed smoke, body fluids (men and women's) and rejection.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 22, 2026 04:09 PM

Okay that's awful and no thank you.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 22, 2026 04:12 PM (fr+Kt)

151 Bleu cheese is too French ace.
Posted by: steevy at June 22, 2026 04:03 PM (YwEeS)

I always ask for the Fromage blue

Posted by: Kindltot at June 22, 2026 04:12 PM (rbvCR)

152 RANCH DRESSING ... I suspect many of the Europeans raving about ranch dressing were introduced to it via buffalo wings, rather than salads.

Posted by: Kathy at June 22, 2026 04:12 PM (MOK4W)

153 Mistake. It was much better as myth.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 22, 2026 04:10 PM (iFTx/)

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Like when Ace finally made friends with a crow?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 04:10 PM (Zn6QU)
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Yea, I continue to believe it ain't a great idea to actively encourage crows to seek you out.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 22, 2026 04:12 PM (iFTx/)

154 I tried ranch Doritos once.

Took me a while to get over it. Until I had some regular Doritos, that is.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2026 04:12 PM (wzUl9)

155 63 "We have roads wide enough for the cars we actually drive."

I took a trip with my family via cruise to Greece and Turkey.

i lived in italy about '75. fiat 500s everywhere. we lived on a one-way street, but the italians didn't care; the 500s could zip past each other with room to spare. and then we'd take up the whole road with our oldsmobile vista cruiser and they'd get upset.

Posted by: anachronda at June 22, 2026 04:12 PM (sGtp+)

156 >>>
You wanna know why? Because French dressing is crap. I also remember it all over the place back in the day. Then it disappeared. Then I saw it at the supermarket and said "hey, here it is, let me try it!"

i loved french dressing as a kid because it's practically just sugar. It turns salad into a dessert.

Posted by: Lamont the Big Dummy at June 22, 2026 04:12 PM (1wjle)

157 This is the common process for about 90% of out current diet. Two drunk guys making bets on whether the other one will eat it. Oysters, clams, Ox tongue, blood pie, sausage.

Every single one of those was a drunk infused dare.
Posted by: Orson

Consider the first guy that drank goat's milk.

[X] Perv
[ ] Not Perv

Posted by: Tonypete at June 22, 2026 04:13 PM (ItpVy)

158 you know what you never see anymore? french dressing. used to be everyone had it. now all they have is ranch and italian.
Posted by: anachronda at June 22, 2026 04:03 PM (sGtp+)[/]

It is the work of Big Mayonnaise. Operation Best.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 22, 2026 04:13 PM (rbvCR)

159 "You don’t necessarily need a choice of 23 salad dressings when children are hungry in this country."

Posted by: Bernie Sanders, Socialist - VT at June 22, 2026 04:13 PM (wVcYX)

160 Stores are also smaller, focused on a single type of food with fewer general stores. Storage is also a thing, so there is a tendency to buy only for the week or a few days.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 22, 2026 04:08 PM (rbvCR)
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Yep.

They have tiny fridges in small apartments over there. Just isn't a lot of room to store vast quantities of food in a pantry/fridge/freezer.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 22, 2026 04:13 PM (gnNyN)

161 145 The woman who said that Olive Garden's Fettuccine Alfredo was the best pasta she'd ever had in her life... so sad.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 22, 2026 04:11 PM (ExV1e)

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There's a small restaurant in Trastevere in Rome that I made sure we went back to when I took the family to Italy last year.

Their signature dish is Rigatoni Democratici (it's how I google the place, I can never remember the restaurant's actual name).

I'd eaten it a couple of times when I lived there 16 years ago, and I'd always loved it. Took the family there, and I definitely got it again. Still a banger of a dish.

Italy makes good food in just random restaurants. The rest? I'm always...whelmed. German sausages? Fine. English breakfasts? Okay. Anything in France outside fancy restaurants? Essentially middling peasant food.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 04:14 PM (Zn6QU)

162 I'm glad all these tourists are spending lots of money at our local establishments.

Posted by: wth at June 22, 2026 04:14 PM (UjdFS)

163 World cup tourists in America celebrating the things we utterly take for granted has been my fave content. White pilled me beyond belief.

Many have been noting that the propaganda arm of the world and American media — Americans are terrible and their country is dangerous and trash and you should avoid them — is crumbling. Too many people came here and saw it with their own eyes. What has seen, in person and then on X/TikTok, cannot be unseen. Can't stop the signal.

It also shows us the freedoms and abundance we need to preserve and defend at all costs!

As a plus, the Canadians have been acting the way Europeans THOUGHT we would behave — surly, unfriendly, stingy. (Sorry Canadian Morons! But I'm getting schadenfreude from it.)

Posted by: LizLem at June 22, 2026 04:14 PM (gWBY1)

164 We have mountains, oceans,rivers, beaches,volcanoes, plains, and deserts. I don't think any European nation has the same.

My wife used to say you could see all the things in the US in Iceland, but in a single island. Maybe not a tropical or subtropical climate. Unless you're a friend of Jules Verne's.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 22, 2026 04:14 PM (Riz8t)

165 79
It's like they've been getting their knowledge about it America third-hand from North Korean government or something.
Posted by: Walmart and Target make them swoon

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Effectively, they have. The "or something" is the MSM. Same the world over.

In a few of those videos, the Europeans flat-out say "We were lied to."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 22, 2026 04:01 PM (XJ22o)

Keep that up and we'll tell the Bobbies you committed a racism.

Posted by: BBC - we're not just a PornHub category! at June 22, 2026 04:14 PM (w/O5Q)

166 I tried ranch Doritos once.

Took me a while to get over it. Until I had some regular Doritos, that is.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2026 04:12 PM (wzUl9)
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Worst. Doritos. Ever.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 22, 2026 04:14 PM (gnNyN)

167 74 What used to be critical thinking is now a skinsuit for the application of critical theory.
And the schools teach it as critical thinking, when it is in fact deconstruction by dialectic.
And they all come out of school mentally ill, on meds, angry, and hundreds of thousands in debt for the "privilege".

Posted by: barbarausa at June 22, 2026 04:00 PM (enw9G)

Worth repeating.

Hell, it's worth framing.

Posted by: ... at June 22, 2026 04:14 PM (22ggK)

168 Speaking of Doritos: Wasn't there once a snack chip from Frito-Lay called "Fiesta," later replaced by Doritos? Because for some reason, the word "fiesta," whether applied to a Latin American celebration or to a compact Ford, makes me think of corn chips.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2026 04:15 PM (wzUl9)

169 On Reddit they’re still convinced the stadiums are empty because Trump and ICE are arresting foreigners. Even though virtually every game, even between no name teams, are sell outs.

They live in their own make believe world.

Posted by: Heroq at June 22, 2026 04:15 PM (YO3Ap)

170 158 you know what you never see anymore? french dressing. used to be everyone had it. now all they have is ranch and italian.
Posted by: anachronda at June 22, 2026 04:03 PM (sGtp+)[/]

It is the work of Big Mayonnaise. Operation Best.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 22, 2026 04:13 PM (rbvCR)

I'm just happy to see Russian back in the stores. Getting rid of that was characteristically Canadian level retarded.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 22, 2026 04:15 PM (Sco7b)

171 This is one of the things I can't stand about snotty liberals who travel elsewhere and then endlessly lecture, nose in air, about how superior everywhere they parked their scrawny asses for 15 minutes is.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That might fly for a lot of Americans who haven't traveled. For those of us who have, we know better, and know that you do, too, and that's why you're sniffing your own farts in the Acela Corridor instead of the 4th Arrondissemente de Paris.

All of it ranges somewhere between "broadly acceptable, strictly speaking" to "9th ring of Hell." None of it exceeds us, setting aside our horrible megacities.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 22, 2026 04:15 PM (BI5O2)

172 166 I tried ranch Doritos once.

Took me a while to get over it. Until I had some regular Doritos, that is.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2026 04:12 PM (wzUl9)
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Worst. Doritos. Ever.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 22, 2026 04:14 PM (gnNyN)

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Not liking Cool Ranch Doritos?

Who are you people? Communists?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 04:15 PM (Zn6QU)

173 I liked the videos

Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2026 04:15 PM (Ia/+0)

174 Which video is the Aussie chick with the twin peaks in? I haven’t got all day."

Last one. And worth it.

Yowza

Posted by: man at June 22, 2026 04:15 PM (XuXeR)

175 I took a trip with my family via cruise to Greece and Turkey. We spent some time in Athens before we left. Apparently a "3 lane" highway in Athens is really a 5-land highway with the cycles using the white lines as their own lanes.
Posted by: Thrawn at June 22, 2026 03:58 PM (KKMoa)

I thought traffic in Rome was bad, until... I went to Athens. Maybe it's recency bias. At least they drive fast in Rome.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at June 22, 2026 04:15 PM (QaH55)

176 I had a pretty good burger in Europe a few years back. It was sort of like an In and Out burger. The Chef had been in the US for a while where he learned to cook but they were interested in my take.

Supposedly this was THE best burger in the city I was in and honestly I make better ones.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 22, 2026 04:16 PM (sKqQm)

177 Critical Theory as Critical Thought is a wild assertion. And a bullseye.

Posted by: ... at June 22, 2026 04:16 PM (22ggK)

178 You wanna know why? Because French dressing is crap. I also remember it all over the place back in the day. Then it disappeared. Then I saw it at the supermarket and said "hey, here it is, let me try it!"

i loved french dressing as a kid because it's practically just sugar. It turns salad into a dessert.
Posted by: Lamont the Big Dummy at June 22, 2026 04:12 PM (1wjle)
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Yea, that and thousand island. My tastes have changed a lot since I was a kid. I used to hate Bleu Cheese dressing, while my dad always got it. Now I like BC, but it has to be the "fresh" BC you get in the refrigerated section. Not the chalky paste from the normal "condiment" aisle that has a sell-by date of July 7, 2057.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 22, 2026 04:16 PM (iFTx/)

179 While all these Brits are over in the US having their eyes opened, Nick Freitas is over in the UK busting on them in every video he posts....It's funny.

Posted by: Orson at June 22, 2026 04:16 PM (dIske)

180 Not liking Cool Ranch Doritos?

Who are you people? Communists?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 04:15 PM (Zn6QU)
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Communists invented Cool Ranch Doritos.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 22, 2026 04:16 PM (gnNyN)

181 "Of all the many foreigners I've met abroad, the English have the most grossly distorted view of our country, oddly enough."

Not so sure about that. I met several Brits at the airport going home after the Masters, and they all raved about the US and lamented how the UK has fallen.

I love these Euros enjoying America too, but what I love even more is how hospitable the Americans have been to them. This happens when you're not in New York City with its teeming hordes of predatory foreigners and passive aggressive assholes. I was in Ireland once and thought the Irish people were some of the warmest, friendliest people I had ever met. It makes me proud to see us Yanks return the favor.

Posted by: UGAdawg at June 22, 2026 04:16 PM (xnH3S)

182
Not liking Cool Ranch Doritos?

Who are you people? Communists?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 04:15

I don't like Doritos. I've never had any of the flavored Doritos.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 22, 2026 04:17 PM (fr+Kt)

183
180 Not liking Cool Ranch Doritos?

Who are you people? Communists?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 04:15 PM (Zn6QU)
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Communists invented Cool Ranch Doritos.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 22, 2026 04:16 PM (gnNyN)

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This is obviously untrue. Communists only make tasteless, bland things like shredded wheat.

Well, communists or the British. Hard to keep track sometimes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 04:17 PM (Zn6QU)

184 The people will demand Barbeque and Buc-Ee's when they return to Europe.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 03:43 PM (2YhKe)

Can't have BBQ in Europe. Even assuming that they'd permit a smoker, the pitmaster would be required to go on government mandated time off before the briskets were done. And, if they did anything other than Texas BBQ, the muslims would riot.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 22, 2026 04:17 PM (ExV1e)

185 People are noticing this content because of the World Cup, but videos of foreign visitors discovering the pleasures of America have been popular on YouTube for years. There are influencers who dedicate half their lives to traveling around the U.S. and enjoying the wonders of barbecue, In-N-Out, Walmart, Costco and American hospitality. (And marveling at our nation's sheer size and diversity.)

It's all good fun, and millions of people were watching these videos before anyone started calling them "political."

Posted by: TR at June 22, 2026 04:17 PM (hazdd)

186 I H8 Cool Ranch Duritos until have 1 chip, then the bag is gone. Then I really H8 them

Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2026 04:17 PM (Ia/+0)

187 I think Queer Stalin resigned.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 22, 2026 04:18 PM (sasms)

188 I don't like Doritos. I've never had any of the flavored Doritos.
Posted by: CaliGirl at June 22, 2026 04:17 PM (fr+Kt)

Aren't they all flavored?

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at June 22, 2026 04:18 PM (QaH55)

189 Propane and propane accessories?

I believe that was one of the items mentioned, but I didn’t feel like tracking down the video.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 22, 2026 04:18 PM (kYmoU)

190 Discovered Lay's Pickle chips. Those get a "more, please"

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 22, 2026 04:18 PM (n5tGW)

191 Glad you Euros are enjoying liberty and capitalism. Now pack up your sissy foreign kickball and Birkenstoks and go home to your gulag.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 22, 2026 04:18 PM (wBaIH)

192 Fight for your birthright, European, Australians, Asians. Stop being serfs.

You don't have to live like a refugee. Tom Petty gave you permission to rise up and take what is ypurs.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 22, 2026 04:18 PM (dK+Kv)

193 112 100 Thousand Island is the king of dressings.

I invented the One Thousand and One Island dressing!
Posted by: Topper at June 22, 2026 04:09 PM (n9eFH)

Anyone for Infinity Island salad dressing?

Posted by: Zombie Stan Lee at June 22, 2026 04:19 PM (wVcYX)

194 81 "Of all the many foreigners I've met abroad, the English have the most grossly distorted view of our country, oddly enough."

My BIL and sister have seen more of the U.S. than I have and they rave about it. He is particularly interested in the American West

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 22, 2026 04:19 PM (7RYym)

195 Also, will someone PLEASE tell europeans they can buy ranch in PACKETS! Take it home in powder form, with all the herbs, and add your own buttermilk or milk or whatever.

But yeah, we drink our milk and Arizona tea by the gallon, over here and I love seeing them crash out over it. Wholesomest content besides the sweet animals on the cafe threads, bar none.

Posted by: LizLem at June 22, 2026 04:19 PM (gWBY1)

196 191 Glad you Euros are enjoying liberty and capitalism. Now pack up your sissy foreign kickball and Birkenstoks and go home to your gulag.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 22, 2026 04:18 PM (wBaIH)

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I want to live in a universe where some European chud's first taste of Ranch dressing is the first domino in some kind of massive populist revolution in Europe.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 04:19 PM (Zn6QU)

197 It may have changed, but when I was in Germany, the food was laughably bad, except for extremely expensive restaurants.

My favorite was a fairly fancy """Chinese""" restaurant in Berlin. It had glass floors with a fredhwater aquarium underneath, and pork lo mein with bratwurst in it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 22, 2026 04:19 PM (BI5O2)

198 The USA is always ready to give asylum to women with big ol titties.God Bless America.

Posted by: steevy at June 22, 2026 04:19 PM (YwEeS)

199 Madison may have shit taste in movies but he knows his snacks. Cool Ranch is gold.

Posted by: ... at June 22, 2026 04:19 PM (22ggK)

200
Italy makes good food in just random restaurants. The rest? I'm always...whelmed. German sausages? Fine. English breakfasts? Okay. Anything in France outside fancy restaurants? Essentially middling peasant food.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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Italy has good food at their highest rest areas

Posted by: 2009Refugee at June 22, 2026 04:20 PM (uH26z)

201 Videos were nice. Good to see something positive for a change.

Really glad to see that thots have finally got a new venue and subject to get their funbags out there on display.

"I like Chipotle, and whoopsie my mams are falling out..."

Come on girls, you aint foolin nobody.
GD I'm getting old.

I'm at peace with it. I'll allow it.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 22, 2026 04:20 PM (vWPIR)

202 You wanna know why? Because French dressing is crap. I also remember it all over the place back in the day. Then it disappeared. Then I saw it at the supermarket and said "hey, here it is, let me try it!"

i loved french dressing as a kid because it's practically just sugar. It turns salad into a dessert.
Posted by: Lamont the Big Dummy at June 22, 2026 04:12 PM (1wjle)
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Plenty of it available where I am. Have to be about 6 or 7 different brands. I don't use it on salads. I baste chicken with it...when I grill.

Posted by: Orson at June 22, 2026 04:20 PM (dIske)

203 Oops. Old news.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 22, 2026 04:20 PM (sasms)

204 * throws note in the door* I like ranch dressing

Posted by: Ben Had at June 22, 2026 04:20 PM (afJtY)

205 This is obviously untrue. Communists only make tasteless, bland things like shredded wheat.

Is next. Gruel. Vyery nice.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 22, 2026 04:20 PM (Riz8t)

206 >>Which video is the Aussie chick with the twin peaks in? I haven’t got all day.
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Last video at :40.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at June 22, 2026 04:20 PM (bNf8H)

207 How could Boston run out of beer? It even sounds strange to say it.
Posted by: Case at June 22, 2026 03:50 PM (IY9No)

How? An Irishman has a hollow leg. A Scotsman has two.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at June 22, 2026 04:21 PM (QkytP)

208 Europe sucks.

Posted by: ballistic at June 22, 2026 04:21 PM (oqH4h)

209 I have been watching these videos the past couple weeks like it's my JOB. I am living for this.

My son was just up in Boston visiting his sister and he rode in on a train with Scots and he said they are just like the videos you've been seeing. They are truly all over Boston. Such fun.

Posted by: bluebell at June 22, 2026 04:21 PM (afFes)

210 I thought traffic in Rome was bad, until... I went to Athens. Maybe it's recency bias. At least they drive fast in Rome."

The old east. Yikes. Ladas everywhere...

Posted by: man at June 22, 2026 04:21 PM (XuXeR)

211 Wait until Europeons finally get to visit Wakanda. They'll forget all about us.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 22, 2026 04:21 PM (vWPIR)

212 sissy foreign kickball

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 22, 2026 04:18 PM (wBaIH)

Football. It's FOOTBALL. The one and only. Gonna get all my rowdy friends to come watch some.

Posted by: ... at June 22, 2026 04:21 PM (22ggK)

213 I've always wanted to see England and Scotland. Of course, that was before their current enslavement by the Mozzies.

Australia and New Zealand were next on my list. Then they bowed and scraped before the WuFlu hoax. Imagine if you'd been trapped there on a vacation in 2020-21.

There are really no other foreign countries I'd like to see enough to spend the money. Individual points of interest, yes, like Antarctica and the southern tips of South America and Africa, and the part of Saskatchewan where my mother grew up. But seeing those would require going to the countries they are in.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2026 04:21 PM (wzUl9)

214 America has the best food in the world because we took all the best things from elsewhere and perfected it here.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 22, 2026 04:21 PM (sKqQm)

215 Tourists are bringing back ranch dressing as a souvenir ??
OK, fine..as long as they are going back.
Posted by: runner at June 22, 2026 03:54 PM (GD0B3)

I'd rather have a lot of these tourists as my fellow countrymen than at least a third of those I'm actually stuck with.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 22, 2026 04:21 PM (ExV1e)

216 Glad you Euros are enjoying liberty and capitalism. Now pack up your sissy foreign kickball and Birkenstoks and go home to your gulag.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov
.......

I have a feeling some of them may be "missing their flights".

Posted by: wth at June 22, 2026 04:22 PM (UjdFS)

217 There's two sisters that defected from North Korea that travel the US and record their impressions on Youtube. Sweet gals. They had to leave a sister behind, so tragic. But I'm glad they got free.

Posted by: LizLem at June 22, 2026 04:22 PM (gWBY1)

218 I like they are enjoying their time here.
I saw one saying the washing machine isn’t in the kitchen as usual in Europe but has its own room and there is a huge washer and dryer!
The crowds marching and singing with no violence has been a delight to see.
Love the left is losing it- what a bunch of sour people.

Posted by: Hyacinth at June 22, 2026 04:22 PM (/2pqF)

219 i loved french dressing as a kid because it's practically just sugar.
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Most cheap dressings have high fructose corn syrup as one of the lead ingredients. If you don't mind spending a bit more you can find better.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 22, 2026 04:22 PM (Dv3i1)

220 is the common process for about 90% of out current diet. Two drunk guys making bets on whether the other one will eat it. Oysters, clams, Ox tongue, blood pie, sausage.

Every single one of those was a drunk infused dare.
Posted by: Orson

That would explain jellied eels.

Posted by: putting the UK in YUCK at June 22, 2026 04:23 PM (TbWk/)

221 218 I like they are enjoying their time here.
I saw one saying the washing machine isn’t in the kitchen as usual in Europe but has its own room and there is a huge washer and dryer!
The crowds marching and singing with no violence has been a delight to see.
Love the left is losing it- what a bunch of sour people.

Posted by: Hyacinth at June 22, 2026 04:22 PM (/2pqF)

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Washers in Europe are...awful.

Like, I don't know how they exist as technology they're so bad.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 04:23 PM (Zn6QU)

222 English breakfasts? Okay."

Hey, who doesn't want canned beans at breakfast?

Frankly, no.

Posted by: man at June 22, 2026 04:23 PM (XuXeR)

223 140 Darrell Harris, I’ve seen Europeans on X making that exact point: we used to think you guys we uncultured because so many have never traveled outside the US, but now we get it. You have every possible option here in your giant country, like 50 different cultures, etc., we would never leave, either.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 22, 2026 04:10 PM (4KUe5)

Yup - and (pretty much) everyone speaks the same language, to boot. Why leave?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 22, 2026 04:23 PM (eShkR)

224 My older brother, and expert in French cuisine, flatly states that Northern Italy is better at cooking, period, end of story. I barely visited France, so I can't say. But Italy is a real good place if you wanna get as fat as a pig and really enjoy doing it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 22, 2026 04:23 PM (BI5O2)

225 delighting in America's unique cuisine (such as barbecue

There was one of a Japanese kid eating a rib that, with the meat, was the size of a forearm. After one bite, couldn't believe how well his life had just turned out.

Posted by: t-bird at June 22, 2026 04:23 PM (ReYtg)

226 My DiL's mom visited from Tokyo. She fell hard for Wegman's.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 22, 2026 04:23 PM (wBaIH)

227 Supposedly this was THE best burger in the city I was in and honestly I make better ones.
Posted by: 18-1

I’m No bbq savant or anything. But I’d say the burgers I make at home are better than 75% of any restaurant burgers I’ve had.

Burgers aren’t hard. The key is ingredients. And most restaurants these days bit cheap shit from Sysco.

Posted by: Heroq at June 22, 2026 04:23 PM (YO3Ap)

228 America has the best food in the world because we took all the best things from elsewhere and perfected it here.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 22, 2026 04:21 PM (sKqQm)
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We also are curious enough to combine flavors from other cultures just to see what would happen.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 22, 2026 04:23 PM (gnNyN)

229 Somebody needs to get these folks some Sweet Baby Ray's. I don't gas about the soccer but I've spent hours enjoying their reactions to our country and, especially, our cuisine. But I remember the first time I had the Sweet Baby Ray's - in my 60s!! - and it was a revelation.

Posted by: Peaches at June 22, 2026 04:23 PM (7MXBW)

230 >>> We have mountains, oceans,rivers, beaches,volcanoes, plains, and deserts. I don't think any European nation has the same.

It has been pointed out they make fun of us for not having passports. Why get a passport when you can see so much in one country? You don't HAVE To leave here to see the beauty of the world.

We are beyond spoiled here. Very blessed, always.

Posted by: LizLem at June 22, 2026 04:23 PM (gWBY1)

231 180 Not liking Cool Ranch Doritos?

Who are you people? Communists?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 04:15 PM (Zn6QU)
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Communists invented Cool Ranch Doritos.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 22, 2026 04:16 PM (gnNyN)

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This is obviously untrue. Communists only make tasteless, bland things like shredded wheat.

Well, communists or the British. Hard to keep track sometimes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 04:17 PM (Zn6QU)

Who made rice cakes?

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 22, 2026 04:23 PM (wVcYX)

232 My understanding was the Engels supported this piece of shit for years. What a world.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 22, 2026 04:23 PM (fkjGs)

233 How could Boston run out of beer? It even sounds strange to say it.

They stocked up on Zima expecting Euros to not like beer.

And the Euros are gay...but not Zima gay

Posted by: 18-1 at June 22, 2026 04:24 PM (sKqQm)

234 222 English breakfasts? Okay."

Hey, who doesn't want canned beans at breakfast?

Frankly, no.

Posted by: man at June 22, 2026 04:23 PM (XuXeR)

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It's odd, but it's fine. It's the fact that no one gives any care to the food itself that really hurts.

I mean, the average cook at Waffle House puts more care into making the bacon than anyone in England gives to a sausage.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 04:24 PM (Zn6QU)

235 Madison may have shit taste in movies but he knows his snacks. Cool Ranch is gold.

Posted by: ... at June 22, 2026 04:19 PM (22ggK)

I found the chink in your armor.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 22, 2026 04:24 PM (dK+Kv)

236

Not me this time.

Posted by: Lamont the Big Dummy at June 22, 2026 04:24 PM (1wjle)

237 Freaking Italics.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 22, 2026 04:24 PM (sasms)

238 Really glad to see that thots have finally got a new venue and subject to get their funbags out there on display.

"I like Chipotle, and whoopsie my mams are falling out..."

Come on girls, you aint foolin nobody.

Too subtle?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 22, 2026 04:24 PM (Riz8t)

239 Not me with an open tag this time... /fewwwwwww

Posted by: 18-1 at June 22, 2026 04:24 PM (sKqQm)

240 224 My older brother, and expert in French cuisine, flatly states that Northern Italy is better at cooking, period, end of story. I barely visited France, so I can't say. But Italy is a real good place if you wanna get as fat as a pig and really enjoy doing it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 22, 2026 04:23 PM (BI5O2)

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Northern Italy could make me fall in love with polenta.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 04:25 PM (Zn6QU)

241 Chipotle + boobs > Chipotle

Posted by: 18-1 at June 22, 2026 04:25 PM (sKqQm)

242 It's nice that the Traveling Euros are surprised and delighted at all things American. But the spell will be broken if they visit any of our world famous urban shitholes.

Posted by: Don Black at June 22, 2026 04:25 PM (vu/LI)

243 Cool Ranch Doritos are actually better than ranch.

Some of you are on dope.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 04:25 PM (2YhKe)

244 I always found it funny with the Yellow School Busses, they really thought it was just a movie thing and not real.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at June 22, 2026 04:25 PM (zMUto)

245 217 There's two sisters that defected from North Korea that travel the US and record their impressions on Youtube. Sweet gals. They had to leave a sister behind, so tragic. But I'm glad they got free.
Posted by: LizLem at June 22, 2026 04:22 PM (gWBY1)
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I think I stumbled across one of their videos. Two Koreans that hardly speak English using their phone translator to ask a firefighter in New Orleans if they could tour their facility...and the dude gave them the royal tour and gave them a challenge medal before they left.

Posted by: Orson at June 22, 2026 04:25 PM (dIske)

246 Liberals are miserable because their entire worldview is fake and demonstrably untruthful. It’s why they want to control every ounce of information you digest, every liberty you can experience and the government, so they can coerce and force you to live their lives.

The truth is always peeking around the corner. They can’t hide from it and every time it rears its head it’s a reminder of their lies, failures l, vulnerability and mendacity. It’s the thing under the bed, and their worst dreams all rolled into one big pile of the truth coming straight at them.

Posted by: Vengeance at June 22, 2026 04:25 PM (h9A1n)

247

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2026 04:26 PM (wzUl9)

248 Just came back from trip to Vienna (with side trip to Bratislava), Budapest and one other capital city that is in a country that borders on both Austria and Hungary. But I won't name it because it is so awesome I don't want it to be overrun (even by such fine people as yourselves). Food was fantastic everywhere.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 22, 2026 04:26 PM (Dv3i1)

249 I saw one saying the washing machine isn’t in the kitchen as usual in Europe but has its own room and there is a huge washer and dryer!"

The most amazing thing to our friends' Brit relatives was... that we have twin 50 gallon water heaters. I thought the guy was gonna stroke out over that. And then they found out it was actually hot...

Posted by: man at June 22, 2026 04:26 PM (XuXeR)

250 207 How could Boston run out of beer? It even sounds strange to say it.
Posted by: Case at June 22, 2026 03:50 PM (IY9No)

How? An Irishman has a hollow leg. A Scotsman has two.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at June 22, 2026 04:21 PM (QkytP)

The NY Post this weekend had an article about how Boston could see a baby boom in 9 months, because of all the Scots who showed up in local bars over there. Little William Wallaces hoovering up all the single lasses. What the heck are the hometown boys doing over there?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 22, 2026 04:26 PM (eShkR)

251 2pqF)

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Washers in Europe are...awful.

Like, I don't know how they exist as technology they're so bad.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 04:23 PM (Zn6QU)

Our kids lived in Europe and I watched the little ones while parents went on a trip. The combo washer dryer was terrible. They didn’t have a place to line dry things and no idea how many cycles to dry anything! They did have a small heated towel rack which also became a dryer. Normal US family wouldnt last with euro sized laundry machines. But that is what the left wants for us.

Posted by: Hyacinth at June 22, 2026 04:27 PM (/2pqF)

252 Here we are, mere weeks before our 250th July 4th, and Europeans parading through our bars, our stores, and our eateries is the greatest, most unexpected celebration of this country that no one ever imagined..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 22, 2026 04:27 PM (nbLIj)

253 I suspect the reason the leftists hate it is because it's mostly whites and the japanese that are having a great time. They prefer the SA criminals and those living on the streets as our visitors.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 22, 2026 04:27 PM (n5tGW)

254
Ranch is one of my least-favorite dressings.

you know what you never see anymore? french dressing. used to be everyone had it. now all they have is ranch and italian.
Posted by: anachronda at June 22, 2026 04:03 PM (sGtp+)

I usually stick with vinegar and oil. But I really have to watch myself to avoid ordering "vinegar and water".

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 22, 2026 04:27 PM (y9nCu)

255 Just came back from trip to Vienna (with side trip to Bratislava), Budapest and one other capital city that is in a country that borders on both Austria and Hungary

What do you think of Wiener schnitzell?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 22, 2026 04:27 PM (sKqQm)

256
I mean, the average cook at Waffle House puts more care into making the bacon than anyone in England gives to a sausage.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 04:24 PM (Zn6QU)

If you haven't, check out Kay's Cooking on YT.

It's a shoo-in for the next streaming-based big screen horror movie.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 22, 2026 04:27 PM (BI5O2)

257 I never cared much for Europeans. They are just so, I don't know, foreign. And they talk funny. It's bad enough going to New England. Now I don't mind going to Mexico cause I can habla some Espanol.

Posted by: Case at June 22, 2026 04:27 PM (IY9No)

258 Armie's movie Citizen Vigilante is looking good, didn't realize it's been banned in parts of Europe.

paseq
@xpaseqx
·
20h
Most savage moment in the entire movie:

“The laws are meant to protect the victims… not the perpetrators.”

Then he looks the judge who let six boys walk after gang-raping a 14-year-old in the eyes and says:

“You are the cancer that is killing society.”

This clip is why Citizen Vigilante was banned in parts of Europe.

Too close to the truth?

Posted by: beckster at June 22, 2026 04:27 PM (kX27y)

259 First summer weekend in Chicago:

6 dead, 39 wounded.

Posted by: Don Black at June 22, 2026 04:27 PM (vu/LI)

260 Also, did we get confirmation that Mannix is older than YD?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 04:27 PM (Zn6QU)

261 Who made rice cakes?"

Grape nuts...

Posted by: man at June 22, 2026 04:28 PM (XuXeR)

262 I wonder if these tourists are embracing the age old American tradition of trashing rental cars.

Posted by: wth at June 22, 2026 04:28 PM (UjdFS)

263 America has the best food in the world because we took all the best things from elsewhere and perfected it here.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 22, 2026 04:21 PM (sKqQm)
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We also are curious enough to combine flavors from other cultures just to see what would happen.

What other country would produce deep-fried Mars bars?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 22, 2026 04:28 PM (Riz8t)

264 The NY Post this weekend had an article about how Boston could see a baby boom in 9 months, because of all the Scots who showed up in local bars over there. Little William Wallaces hoovering up all the single lasses. What the heck are the hometown boys doing over there?

Its the gay state. Unless a bunch of those scottish girls brought turkey basters there will not be a baby boom

Posted by: 18-1 at June 22, 2026 04:28 PM (sKqQm)

265 Legalinsurrection.com has a article up on this as well, very nice blonde yound lady says she could be a American, sure a young guy could make that happen if she wants to.

Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2026 04:28 PM (Ia/+0)

266 256 If you haven't, check out Kay's Cooking on YT.

It's a shoo-in for the next streaming-based big screen horror movie.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 22, 2026 04:27 PM (BI5O2)

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*weeps at her subscriber count*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 04:28 PM (Zn6QU)

267
I mean, the average cook at Waffle House puts more care into making the bacon than anyone in England gives to a sausage.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026

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Ian Fleming had Bond tell M that "the best English cooking is the best in the world, especially at this time of year" (spring, I think it was; in a club scene in Moonraker).

On the other hand, that was seventy years ago.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2026 04:29 PM (wzUl9)

268 What I hate about Europe is paying to use the bathroom, reststop or even when we were at an amusement park you had to pay 1 euro to use it.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at June 22, 2026 04:29 PM (zMUto)

269 252 Here we are, mere weeks before our 250th July 4th, and Europeans parading through our bars, our stores, and our eateries is the greatest, most unexpected celebration of this country that no one ever imagined..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 22, 2026 04:27 PM (nbLIj)

That's my favorite part of it!!!

Posted by: Peaches at June 22, 2026 04:29 PM (7MXBW)

270 wow, thanks ellipsis!
I do repeat it.
It has resulted in the inversion of Maslow, and it is the weak men creating hard times.

Posted by: barbarausa at June 22, 2026 04:29 PM (enw9G)

271 248 Just came back from trip to Vienna (with side trip to Bratislava), Budapest and one other capital city that is in a country that borders on both Austria and Hungary. But I won't name it because it is so awesome I don't want it to be overrun (even by such fine people as yourselves). Food was fantastic everywhere.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 22, 2026 04:26 PM (Dv3i1)
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I did Innsbruk last year. Ended up staying at a place that was only accessible via cable car, and stayed about 8,000 feet up in the Alps. Lot's of Edelweiss pale ale (which still had the barley floating around in it)....and the disturbing taxidermy practices of Autrians. Antlers on a squirrel is distrubing.

Posted by: Orson at June 22, 2026 04:29 PM (dIske)

272 What other country would produce deep-fried Mars bars?
Posted by: Archimedes at June 22, 2026 04:28 PM (Riz8t)
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We deep-fry bacon (and other things) at the TXMOME just because we can.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 22, 2026 04:29 PM (gnNyN)

273 Guys, I have to share how much I'm enjoying the way that WordWeb added a little discreet (and discrete) AI.

"AI suggestions:
This is a slang term, likely a misspelling of *fugazi*, which means something fake, counterfeit, or phony."

If you're not familiar, WordWeb is a handy lightweight dictionary/thesaurus app where you don't have open a browser (or switch tabs if you're in one), just highlight a word and ctrl-alt-w (or ctrl-right-click) and up it pops. They had already added a Wiktionary tab, which I use all the time, for richer details than the built-in database can provide. But now it can handle foreign words and slang at the first glance!

https://wordweb.info/free/

Posted by: SciVo at June 22, 2026 04:29 PM (Sy6m/)

274 Yeah that Boston running out of beer thing sounds bullshit. There are a few thousand Scot fans in a Metro metro area of 5M people with 60 colleges for crying out loud and a place that has a ton of tourists all the time.

Makes for a fun story but yeah I call bullshit.

Posted by: Heroq at June 22, 2026 04:29 PM (YO3Ap)

275 267 Ian Fleming had Bond tell M that "the best English cooking is the best in the world, especially at this time of year" (spring, I think it was; in a club scene in Moonraker).

On the other hand, that was seventy years ago.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2026 04:29 PM (wzUl9)

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Loyalty to his tribe. Have to admire it.

Even if it leads him to such idiotic assertions.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 04:29 PM (Zn6QU)

276 mere weeks before our 250th July 4th, and Europeans parading through our bars, our stores, and our eateries is the greatest, most unexpected celebration of this country that no one ever imagined"

"Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations"

Posted by: man at June 22, 2026 04:30 PM (XuXeR)

277 Arkansas gas station deep fryer food. Casey's pizza. The things you can't get in the Benelux.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 22, 2026 04:30 PM (gm9Sb)

278
Makes for a fun story but yeah I call bullshit.

Posted by: Heroq at June 22, 2026 04:29 PM (YO3Ap)

Shocking largely no one.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 04:30 PM (2YhKe)

279 How could Boston run out of beer? It even sounds strange to say it.
Posted by: Case at June 22, 2026 03:50 PM (IY9No)

How? An Irishman has a hollow leg. A Scotsman has two.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at June 22, 2026 04:21 PM (QkytP)

The NY Post this weekend had an article about how Boston could see a baby boom in 9 months, because of all the Scots who showed up in local bars over there. Little William Wallaces hoovering up all the single lasses. What the heck are the hometown boys doing over there?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 22, 2026 04:26 PM (eShkR)
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I'm pretty sure if one drunken scotsman fucks another drunken scotsman, a baby won't result.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 22, 2026 04:30 PM (iFTx/)

280 I find it hilarious. These Euros and Brits (back the day, the Brits NEVER considered themselves European) love America. Costco, Buc-ees, etc. How friendly we are to strangers.

The Atlantic was always Commie propaganda organ.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 22, 2026 04:30 PM (qFwJc)

281 272 What other country would produce deep-fried Mars bars?
Posted by: Archimedes at June 22, 2026 04:28 PM (Riz8t)
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We deep-fry bacon (and other things) at the TXMOME just because we can.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 22, 2026 04:29 PM (gnNyN)

Terducken.

Why? Why not, that's why.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 22, 2026 04:31 PM (eShkR)

282 I liked the YT of Brit school-boy lads trying biscuits and (sausage) gravy.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 22, 2026 04:31 PM (wVcYX)

283 What do you think of Wiener schnitzell?
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I had Figlemuller's and Dom Schnitzel. Each was perfection. Bonus was the potato salad with pumpkin oil and lingonberries on the side.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 22, 2026 04:31 PM (Dv3i1)

284 If they're waxing eloquent about the excellence of Boston, you know they're just farming for clicks.

They drank the city out of beer. They were in an alcoholic haze the whole time.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 22, 2026 04:31 PM (ExV1e)

285 What I hate about Europe is paying to use the bathroom, reststop or even when we were at an amusement park you had to pay 1 euro to use it.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at June 22, 2026

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I last saw a pay toilet in America at a mall in 1967.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2026 04:31 PM (wzUl9)

286 Notthebee had a story about reduced auto breaking in Oakland costing jobs.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 22, 2026 04:31 PM (sasms)

287 274 Yeah that Boston running out of beer thing sounds bullshit. There are a few thousand Scot fans in a Metro metro area of 5M people with 60 colleges for crying out loud and a place that has a ton of tourists all the time.

Makes for a fun story but yeah I call bullshit.
Posted by: Heroq at June 22, 2026 04:29 PM (YO3Ap)

They didn't run out... They still had Bud Lite...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 22, 2026 04:31 PM (afi9t)

288 Makes you feel proud, doesn't it?

We take so much for granted and these UK and Europeans act as if Costco was a museum or historical artifact!

The one couple I've seen, James and Siana (he's the bearded guy with muscles and she's the gorgeous blonde from London) started this love of the USA in the past year on their youtube. Have visited over 20 states. Invited by a Southern family for Thanksgiving, which blew their minds and included hunting. They are trying to come to America to live.

The shock of someone, a stranger, saying hello. Sort of sad, as I thought this normal.

Why can't these people invade illegally and we deport the Somolians and those who rip us off and rape our women?

I want to keep these people as they love the USA.

Good for Justine to call out the bs. Thanks, Ace.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 22, 2026 04:32 PM (hzuYO)

289 259 First summer weekend in Chicago:

6 dead, 39 wounded.

Posted by: Don Black at June 22, 2026 04:27 PM (vu/LI)

You left out the part where it was at their Juneteenth celebration.

Posted by: Peaches at June 22, 2026 04:32 PM (7MXBW)

290 286 Notthebee had a story about reduced auto breaking in Oakland costing jobs.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 22, 2026 04:31 PM (sasms)

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"THIS IS NOT WHY I WROTE!"
-Frederic Bastiat

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 04:32 PM (Zn6QU)

291 Yes, Peaches. I too have an affinity for Sweet Baby Ray's.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 22, 2026 04:32 PM (n5tGW)

292 One thing that surprised me about France is their love for Nutella. Never would have guessed but it’s everywhere including restaurant as part of desert offerings.

Posted by: Heroq at June 22, 2026 04:32 PM (YO3Ap)

293 The NY Post this weekend had an article about how Boston could see a baby boom in 9 months, because of all the Scots who showed up in local bars over there. Little William Wallaces hoovering up all the single lasses. What the heck are the hometown boys doing over there?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 22, 2026 04:26 PM (eShkR)

Putting from the rough.

Posted by: Plundering the basement at June 22, 2026 04:32 PM (TbWk/)

294 >>>Ian Fleming had Bond tell M that "the best English cooking is the best in the world, especially at this time of year" (spring, I think it was; in a club scene in Moonraker).

On the other hand, that was seventy years ago.

top british chefs have been attempting to create an "authentic" british high cuisine using typically british ingredients (like leeks and lamb) precisely because there is no great british cooking tradition.

Posted by: Lamont the Big Dummy at June 22, 2026 04:32 PM (1wjle)

295
I'm pretty sure if one drunken scotsman fucks another drunken scotsman, a baby won't result.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 22, 2026

***
"Ah dinna know where ye been, man, but Ah see ye won first prize!"
(-- punch line of joke and song)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2026 04:32 PM (wzUl9)

296 America has the best food in the world because we took all the best things from elsewhere and perfected it here.
Posted by: 18-1

Two words. Cultural. Appropriation.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 22, 2026 04:32 PM (ndZc7)

297 Wow the Montreal police give new meaning to the phrase "clown car cops."

Posted by: J.D. Vance over the weekend at June 22, 2026 04:32 PM (mWKAz)

298 Terducken.

Why? Why not, that's why.

I like your can do attitude.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 22, 2026 04:32 PM (Riz8t)

299 248 Just came back from trip to Vienna (with side trip to Bratislava), Budapest and one other capital city that is in a country that borders on both Austria and Hungary. But I won't name it because it is so awesome I don't want it to be overrun (even by such fine people as yourselves). Food was fantastic everywhere.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 22, 2026 04:26 PM (Dv3i1)

We did the same type of trip but its a Family River cruise thru TAUCK, Eastern Europe is still safe and they really hate the Commies.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at June 22, 2026 04:33 PM (zMUto)

300 They didn't run out... They still had Bud Lite...

As long as you have overly hydrated hobos you never run out of Bud light...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 22, 2026 04:33 PM (sKqQm)

301 lol
"Milk, bread, and an air rifle!"

Stay and get yer green card, mate. Then you can go to Walmart and get milk, bread, and a real rifle.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 22, 2026 04:33 PM (vTZFs)

302 Yeah that Boston running out of beer thing sounds bullshit. There are a few thousand Scot fans in a Metro metro area of 5M people with 60 colleges for crying out loud and a place that has a ton of tourists all the time.

Makes for a fun story but yeah I call bullshit.
Posted by: Heroq at June 22, 2026 04:29 PM (YO3Ap)
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Surely overblown, but I think a few individual bars got overrun with Scots and drained out. That's probably what fueled the story. There are apparently a few bars that are very popular with the Scots, including one who's name translated into Scottish means "shit."

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 22, 2026 04:33 PM (iFTx/)

303 the first time I was in a Costco I was pretty amazed, tbf.

Posted by: Lamont the Big Dummy at June 22, 2026 04:33 PM (1wjle)

304
What I hate about Europe is paying to use the bathroom, reststop or even when we were at an amusement park you had to pay 1 euro to use it.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at June 22, 2026 04:29 PM (zMUto)

I mean really, the sink is RIGHT THERE IN THE OPEN.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 22, 2026 04:33 PM (y9nCu)

305 Two words. Cultural. Appropriation.

Indeed. Its a good thing.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 22, 2026 04:33 PM (sKqQm)

306 294 On the other hand, that was seventy years ago.

top british chefs have been attempting to create an "authentic" british high cuisine using typically british ingredients (like leeks and lamb) precisely because there is no great british cooking tradition.

Posted by: Lamont the Big Dummy at June 22, 2026 04:32 PM (1wjle)

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Still, I do enjoy The Great British Bake Off.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 04:33 PM (Zn6QU)

307 USAid was funding the red tide in South America which increased cocaine production.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 22, 2026 04:34 PM (sasms)

308 This is just social media influencer crap. smells like a campaign to polish the US' image and increase tourism from european countries.

When I saw the guy picked up the crappy muffins… if he was actually excited, he won’t be as soon as it gets in his mouth.

Americans gobbling up this "never seen a supermarket" grift. American culture shock is apparently just unbridled consumerism and Walmart...

Everybody will come back home with +10kg at the belly (thats's about 18 freedom eagles)

Just wait until the Americans go to Europe and see free healthcare and education….

You know most are fake or parody right? But the free water is needed in Europe. Greedy ass continent charging 4 euros for a bottle of water every time you go out.

I like america. Wish it would embrace free healthcare, increase the minimum wage, get money out of politics and stop electing anyone who says the word "jesus" in a semi coherent sentence. Then we could have a country where we get these little things, and are able to live well.

Other people might like the place too.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 22, 2026 04:34 PM (Lb0vX)

309 Americans will eat practically anything, like raccoons. Soda Shaq? No problem, give us a 2-liter. We think hotdogs are food, for Pete's sake. But we still wouldn't stoop to eating Englush animal feed.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 22, 2026 04:34 PM (BI5O2)

310 Bidet Light.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 22, 2026 04:35 PM (sasms)

311 The one couple I've seen, James and Siana (he's the bearded guy with muscles and she's the gorgeous blonde from London) started this love of the USA in the past year on their youtube. Have visited over 20 states. Invited by a Southern family for Thanksgiving, which blew their minds and included hunting. They are trying to come to America to live.

I saw one of their videos, and they were begging for money to come over here. Some of these folks are just frauds, taking advantage of some American's desire to be liked by Europeans. Sorry, I'm feeling cynical today.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 22, 2026 04:35 PM (Riz8t)

312 If Europeans start to realize they've been lied to by their media about the people and places of America, imagine if they start wondering what else they've been lied to about.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 22, 2026 04:35 PM (viF8m)

313 Hopefully some end up at gun ranges and see the ease and comfort some of us Americans have with arms.

One guy said that the only guns he saw were at a range some nice people took him to where he was able to do some shooting and it was fun.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 22, 2026 04:35 PM (ExV1e)

314 259 First summer weekend in Chicago:

6 dead, 39 wounded.

Posted by: Don Black at June 22, 2026 04:27 PM (vu/LI)

Rookie numbers.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 22, 2026 04:35 PM (wVcYX)

315 Cont.from my comment above

James and Siana said before their first (of several) trips to the USA that they were warned how dangerous it was here.

They did get robbed in California but otherwise love the USA, the food, the sites, the people.

I think these people go back and tell their countries the media propaganda is bs. Good!

No wonder the commies are upset that their dystopian hallucinations are bs.

I don't watch the World Cup but I do love the hurrah America videos.

We have it very good, y'all.

Get ready to celebrate the 250th birthday!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 22, 2026 04:35 PM (hzuYO)

316 Antlers on a squirrel is distrubing.
Posted by: Orson at June 22, 2026 04:29 PM (dIske)

We have jackalopes here. At Reagan's ranch in the bar area he had one and he would tell foriegn visitors they were dangerous and everywhere here.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 22, 2026 04:35 PM (fr+Kt)

317 I mean really, the sink is RIGHT THERE IN THE OPEN.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 22, 2026 04:33 PM (y9nCu)

If you're Muslim "migrant" they'll let you wash your ass right in the public fountain.

Posted by: No others need apply though at June 22, 2026 04:36 PM (TbWk/)

318 The Atlantic owned by Loureen Jobs uber Karen lefty widow of Steve. BFF of Ghislaine Maxwell.
You'd think with all that cash she'd ask for happy stories.
But noooo.
She wants to change the world

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 22, 2026 04:36 PM (Iurxt)

319 Everybody will come back home with +10kg at the belly (thats's about 18 freedom eagles)

Would love to push this redditor to answer whether being 10kg overweight is a morally bad thing or not, especially with a few Healthy at Any Size Redditors in the thread...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 22, 2026 04:36 PM (sKqQm)

320 top british chefs have been attempting to create an "authentic" british high cuisine using typically british ingredients (like leeks and lamb) precisely because there is no great british cooking tradition.

Do you mean to tell me the Brits didn't invent vindaloo? Ridiculous!

Posted by: Archimedes at June 22, 2026 04:36 PM (Riz8t)

321 Just wait until the Americans go to Europe and see free healthcare and education…

LOL.. Yeah.. Just wait....

Posted by: It's me donna at June 22, 2026 04:36 PM (afi9t)

322 Ian Fleming had Bond tell M that "the best English cooking is the best in the world, especially at this time of year" (spring, I think it was; in a club scene in Moonraker).

On the other hand, that was seventy years ago.

top british chefs have been attempting to create an "authentic" british high cuisine using typically british ingredients (like leeks and lamb) precisely because there is no great british cooking tradition.
Posted by: Lamont the Big Dummy at June 22, 2026 04:32 PM (1wjle)
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Fish and chips is awesome. So is beef wellington. I also like shepards pie, although the Brits and Irish fight over that one.

I don't get all the negativity towards British food. Some of it is quite good.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 22, 2026 04:36 PM (iFTx/)

323 In 1996, there was a pay toilet in a Newberry's story. I was eleven and crawled under the door.

There was a law in California, back in the day, that if you served food you had to have a public toilet. I worked in a Baskin-Robbins in High School. If a customer requested use of it, we were gracious. Not a clean as a Buc-ees, but served its purpose.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 22, 2026 04:36 PM (qFwJc)

324 Maybe all those immigrants aren't doctors and engineers.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 22, 2026 04:36 PM (sasms)

325 318 The Atlantic owned by Loureen Jobs uber Karen lefty widow of Steve. BFF of Ghislaine Maxwell.
You'd think with all that cash she'd ask for happy stories.
But noooo.
She wants to change the world

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 22, 2026 04:36 PM (Iurxt)

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The Epstein crowd is super serious because they've all boycotted The Atlantic.

However, it's impossible to actually see because The Atlantic's subscriber base was so small already.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 04:36 PM (Zn6QU)

326 313 the only guns he saw were at a range. Witness the beauty of concealed carry.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 22, 2026 04:37 PM (gm9Sb)

327 1966. Not 1996.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 22, 2026 04:37 PM (qFwJc)

328 The Fidelity people tell me that my check for my long-ago pension plan may not arrive until next Monday -- seven months after I started their process to get it. They told me seven to ten business days from June 13. They don't count Saturdays -- even though the Post Office delivers on Saturday.

A letter I got from them, today, was dated June 3. It took 19 frickin' days to get here from New Mexico. Not south Africa, but from Albuquerque. If that's any indication, I may not see that check for two more weeks.

I shall heartily recommend Fidelity Investments to all my enemies.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2026 04:37 PM (wzUl9)

329 I honestly can't decide which I've loved more. Seeing the genuine expressions of joy from our European cousins (and visitors from around the world) marveling at our food, our vehicles, our stores, our customs and our kindness....

...or seeing the panic-riddled, angry, angst-ridden responses from the American Left, predictably shrieking, "Propaganda! Right-wing psy-op! These people are NOT really enjoying themselves!"....

...quickly followed by their six-paragraph denunciations of America, Donald Trump, capitalism, white people, etc., etc., etc.

When you meet us in person, in our lands, and you come to see firsthand our ways, we're actually pretty damned likeable. God bless America.

Posted by: Sam Adams at June 22, 2026 04:37 PM (X+xvk)

330 My first time in Europe (West Germany) was where I discovered, quite to my dismay, that refills were NOT free. That Saturday morning at the cafe was very instructional.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at June 22, 2026 04:37 PM (bufu1)

331 saw one of their videos, and they were begging for money to come over here. Some of these folks are just frauds, taking advantage of some American's desire to be liked by Europeans. Sorry, I'm feeling cynical today.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 22, 2026 04:35 PM (Riz8t)
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Haven't seen that one. They seem lovely to me.

Of course I also once went on a snipe hunt, if that tells you anything. Granted I was only 9yrs old but a believer.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 22, 2026 04:37 PM (hzuYO)

332 >>Just wait until the Americans go to Europe and see free healthcare and education….

Been there. There's no such thing as free healthcare you idiot and the healthcare in Europe sucks.

The education is obviously worse. Also not free.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 22, 2026 04:37 PM (viF8m)

333 321 Just wait until the Americans go to Europe and see free healthcare and education…

LOL.. Yeah.. Just wait....

Posted by: It's me donna at June 22, 2026 04:36 PM (afi9t)

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Why would an American tourist be amazed by a healthcare system they don't interact with and a university system they don't attend?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 04:37 PM (Zn6QU)

334 I saw an internet rumor that TSA had to issue a public statement reminding Euros that bottles of ranch must be packed in checked luggage, not carry-ons. Too beaucoup.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 22, 2026 03:51 PM (w/O5Q)
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Hey, Euros, leave the buttermilk ranch. That's OURS!

Posted by: mrp at June 22, 2026 04:37 PM (rj6Yv)

335 Just wait until the Americans go to Europe and see free healthcare and education….

Or, they could just go to Canada. Have you noticed that Americans DON'T go to Canada for education and healthcare? Imbecile.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 22, 2026 04:38 PM (Riz8t)

336 Two words. Cultural. Appropriation.

Indeed. Its a good thing.
Posted by: 18-1

Consider the wonder of the food court.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 22, 2026 04:38 PM (ndZc7)

337 what's funny is at the Start of the World Cup, I saw nothing but complaining from the English about the Soccer tourny coming here and we would ruin it, our Fields are crap and they can't drain, Then Orlando turned on the Drainage system and they could play their tuneup game, then they got upset about people eating and Drinking Beer next to the Field, I pointed out that the English are too poor to afford those seats and They can't handle drinking a beer and watching a game because it's banned in England.
then all the good posts started to pour in, and it stopped

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at June 22, 2026 04:38 PM (zMUto)

338 303 the first time I was in a Costco I was pretty amazed, tbf.

Posted by: Lamont the Big Dummy at June 22, 2026 04:33 PM (1wjle)
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We knew a young French family from church, from near Paris no less. One day I ran into the wife at Costco with her parents who had come to visit. I thought oh no, what must they think of this place and of us.

The next time I saw her I asked what they thought - were they horrified? Nope! She beamed at me, "Zey thought eet was GREAT!"

Posted by: bluebell at June 22, 2026 04:38 PM (afFes)

339 I remember once driving across Texas from El Paso to the Louisiana border. I thought I was going to die in Texas. God I love this country!

Posted by: The guy that says nothing will happen (again) at June 22, 2026 04:39 PM (LNVkW)

340 (VIDEO) Los Angeles Warehouse Fire Rages Into SIXTH Day as Newsom Declares State of Emergency and Shelter-in-Place Orders

WTF ???
Dipshit gonna make grocery store aisles one-way too?

Posted by: Operator Error at June 22, 2026 04:39 PM (vr1/1)

341 Jones GoodAss Barbecue and Foot Massage will deep-fry anything you want

https://youtu.be/uNpFh4k-YW8

Posted by: Don Black at June 22, 2026 04:39 PM (vu/LI)

342 On Reddit they’re still convinced the stadiums are empty because Trump and ICE are arresting foreigners. Even though virtually every game, even between no name teams, are sell outs.

And televised.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 22, 2026 04:39 PM (ExV1e)

343 Armie's movie Citizen Vigilante is looking good, didn't realize it's been banned in parts of Europe.

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I watched it last night. It's a Uwe Boll movie. It's a bad movie.

People will still enjoy it, based on what it has to say and the fact that it's willing to say it. No judgement. I like plenty of bad movies myself, I just didn't like this one.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at June 22, 2026 04:39 PM (yFLFB)

344 You know what's really tragic about this? It never happened with all those teeming hordes that Biden invited in. All that crowd does is complain, not enough free shit. And you know they have phones, cause those were free, too.

Posted by: Peaches at June 22, 2026 04:39 PM (7MXBW)

345
I like the N Korean sisters' vids. Their enthusiasm is genuine and heartwarming. And their stuff predates the World Cup tourists.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 22, 2026 04:39 PM (y9nCu)

346 lol
"Milk, bread, and an air rifle!"

Stay and get yer green card, mate. Then you can go to Walmart and get milk, bread, and a real rifle.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 22, 2026 04:33 PM (vTZFs)

An official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot range model air rifle! With a compass in the stock and the thing that goes up.

Posted by: Ralphie Parker at June 22, 2026 04:39 PM (wVcYX)

347 "Otherwise I'm not sure what you can do with wiper fluid other than poison dogs ... so, maybe, yeah that would be dangerous in Europe"

No, poisoning dogs is good way to show obedience to their future (current?) rulers.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at June 22, 2026 04:40 PM (Vpqw1)

348 Oh man, the leftists going on and on about free healthcare. There is nothing more expensive or deadly as free healthcare.

But these haters just won't leave to their ideal countries with free healthcare. Europe is taking all comers, go!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 22, 2026 04:40 PM (n5tGW)

349 Every time hear some leftist talk about free dictation in Europe I want to slap them.

First off we have next to free Wattoo. Here. Go to in state and live at home, get a china ship or two and it’s free. Very doable.

But the part they miss is what “free” gets you. Like everything govt gives away for “free” it’s rationed and shitty. It’s hard to get into college in Europe. And there’s no $30M library or gym on campus. Everything is old and run down. There are the exceptions like Oxford but that is NOT free, even for UK students.

Posted by: Heroq at June 22, 2026 04:40 PM (YO3Ap)

350 Why would an American tourist be amazed by a healthcare system they don't interact with and a university system they don't attend?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 04:37 PM (Zn6QU)

I got pretty sick in Prague. Turned out ok, but my buddy was thinking I should go to a doctor in Berlin. "Hell no," I said, "if I don't get better soon I'm flying back home and going to an American-trained Jewish doctor."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 22, 2026 04:40 PM (BI5O2)

351 343 I watched it last night. It's a Uwe Boll movie. It's a bad movie.

People will still enjoy it, based on what it has to say and the fact that it's willing to say it. No judgement. I like plenty of bad movies myself, I just didn't like this one.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at June 22, 2026 04:39 PM (yFLFB)

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Uwe Boll's absolute best movie is...okay. Rampage. It's not good. It's okay.

But people want to support art with messages they like. So, have fun, I guess.

The original Death Wish is actually good, everyone.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 04:40 PM (Zn6QU)

352 Sounds like a job for the fire department. Station 51?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 22, 2026 04:40 PM (sasms)

353 321 Just wait until the Americans go to Europe and see free healthcare and education…

LOL.. Yeah.. Just wait....
Posted by: It's me donna at June 22, 2026 04:36 PM (afi9t)
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Funny you should say that. There is a video of this Scotish guy whose wife had a medical emergency so he took her to a hospital emergency room and she was in and out in less than and hour, and they couldn't stop talking about how well they were treated, and how professional everyone was.

Then the kicker: He said that if this occured in the UK he would have had to wait for hours, and then likely told to come back in 3 weeks time.

His total bill was about $700 most of which will be absorbed by the Brit system.

Posted by: Orson at June 22, 2026 04:41 PM (dIske)

354 Wolfus Aurelius, be patient. And stop wasting money on stupid shit. Why are you still a renter? Washing your car, going out to diners, etc. Miss Linda?

Man up and learn how to cook. Wash your own car. Stop buying coffee unless you brew it yourself.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 22, 2026 04:41 PM (qFwJc)

355 $10 gas , 20% VAT and 50% income tax rates for middle class incomes. But yeah man healthcare is freeeeeeee.

Posted by: Heroq at June 22, 2026 04:41 PM (YO3Ap)

356 No Uwe Boll for me, TYVM, ever.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 22, 2026 04:41 PM (BI5O2)

357 This is disgusting !!!!!!!!!!!!!

I demand that Obama and the Commie-Crats put out videos everywhere to tell these people America Sucks and is Evil immediately before these spreads worldwide !!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson K. at June 22, 2026 04:41 PM (jzqpX)

358 342 On Reddit they’re still convinced the stadiums are empty because Trump and ICE are arresting foreigners. Even though virtually every game, even between no name teams, are sell outs.

And televised.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Who are going to believe? Reddit, or your lying eyes?

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 22, 2026 04:41 PM (Lb0vX)

359 >>>What I hate about Europe is paying to use the bathroom, reststop or even when we were at an amusement park you had to pay 1 euro to use it.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio

>Last time I was driving down the freeway and had to take a piss, a state trooper pulled up and hilarity ensued. Asshole insisted I take a breathalyzer. Now can you shake my dick?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 22, 2026 04:41 PM (fkjGs)

360 I was watching some British cooking competition and they had a Mexican food themed segment. It was so funny. 90% of the contestants had never even heard of the foods they were trying to recreate. They were literally just guessing what might go into the dish based on the name.

I get they don't have much of a tradition, but you've never even seen a taco on TV?

Posted by: bonhomme at June 22, 2026 04:42 PM (mkw2N)

361 Also, will someone PLEASE tell europeans they can buy ranch in PACKETS! Take it home in powder form, with all the herbs, and add your own buttermilk or milk or whatever.

It would take a whole family's ration of dairy for a decade to make a cup of Ranch.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 22, 2026 04:42 PM (ExV1e)

362 France restricts public alcohol consumption.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 22, 2026 04:42 PM (sasms)

363 the first time I was in a Costco I was pretty amazed, tbf.

I had a lovely Father's Day yesterday, but the cherry on top was that all but one of my kids (the single one, go figure) are now Costco members. They can't mock me anymore!

Posted by: Archimedes at June 22, 2026 04:42 PM (Riz8t)

364 >> I saw an internet rumor that TSA had to issue a public statement reminding Euros that bottles of ranch must be packed in checked luggage, not carry-ons. Too beaucoup.

Boston enjoyed the Brits so much they sent a cart full of food and drinks to an airport gate where a Scottish group was waiting for a flight to go to Miami for the next round.

People can say it's fake all they want and I'm sure there are some doing it for clicks but what happened in Boston over the last couple of weeks was not fake. Both Bostonians and Scottish visitors had a great party.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 22, 2026 04:42 PM (viF8m)

365
Europe sucks.

Posted by: ballistic

Especially The Final Countdown!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 22, 2026 04:42 PM (Cqx++)

366 An official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot range model air rifle! With a compass in the stock and the thing that goes up.

Posted by: Ralphie Parker

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"With a compass in the stock and this thing that tells time."

Posted by: Sam Adams at June 22, 2026 04:42 PM (X+xvk)

367 I remember once driving across Texas from El Paso to the Louisiana border. I thought I was going to die in Texas. God I love this country!
Posted by: The guy that says nothing will happen (again) at June 22, 2026

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Took me two days to get across TX from the Guadalupe Mountains to Lousy-ana in '93. Dwight Yoakam's "Thousand Miles from Nowhere" was recent then, and I played the tape as I drove through the western section toward San Antonio. Perfect words.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2026 04:42 PM (wzUl9)

368 Has anyone seen the videos where Brits are freaking out at seeing a school bus?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 22, 2026 04:42 PM (ExV1e)

369 America is the shining city on the hill.
Life is precious and sacred not to be snuffed out for profit and convenience. If you’re loaded with sexually transmitted diseases you were misinformed.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 22, 2026 04:42 PM (NTTgh)

370 His total bill was about $700 most of which will be absorbed by the Brit system.
Posted by: Orson at June 22, 2026 04:41 PM (dIske)

Liar!!

Everyone knows every American goes bankrupt if they break a leg or have their tonsils removed.
- The left

Posted by: Heroq at June 22, 2026 04:43 PM (YO3Ap)

371 Pravda and Izvestia called, they want their propaganda back.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 22, 2026 04:43 PM (LNXuK)

372 What do you call it when when you have to pay for all the free stuff?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 22, 2026 04:43 PM (sasms)

373 > What I hate about Europe is paying to use the bathroom, reststop or even when we were at an amusement park you had to pay 1 euro to use it.

And in many places you're not even paying for the maintenance of the facilities. They often look like they were last cleaned when Churchill was on the radio.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 22, 2026 04:43 PM (mkw2N)

374 Have to admit, the videos with Europeans showing shock at the prospect of buying ten pounds of ground beef and a gallon of ice cream puzzles me. Do these folks not invite friends over for a cookout?

Posted by: Sam Adams at June 22, 2026 04:43 PM (X+xvk)

375 332 >>Just wait until the Americans go to Europe and see free healthcare and education….

Been there. There's no such thing as free healthcare you idiot and the healthcare in Europe sucks.

The education is obviously worse. Also not free.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 22, 2026 04:37 PM (viF8m)

Got sick in Europe this Spring and wanted to get something, you have to a Pharmacy because their is nothing over the counter, and they are open like bank hours, then you can't get cold and Flu you have to but everything separate. the one time we forgot to pack cold and flu meds I get sick

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at June 22, 2026 04:43 PM (zMUto)

376 Shelter in place because a fire down the street a ways or in next town? What with fire extinguisher in hand incase your house catches fire?

Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2026 04:43 PM (Ia/+0)

377 The euros thought yellow scgool buses were fake.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 22, 2026 04:44 PM (sasms)

378 Wolfus Aurelius, be patient. And stop wasting money on stupid shit. Why are you still a renter? Washing your car, going out to diners, etc. Miss Linda?

Man up and learn how to cook. Wash your own car. Stop buying coffee unless you brew it yourself.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 22, 2026

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I'm still a renter because I CAN'T FIND A PROPERTY I WANT TO BUY. And I do wash my own car ($2.00), cook for myself, and make my own coffee.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2026 04:44 PM (wzUl9)

379 Rampage was a stupid hunk of shit. Okay iscway too generous.

My friend hyped it up, I watched it for 45 minutes, and said "yep, it's an Uwe Boll movie, I'm going to get drunk and try to forget this."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 22, 2026 04:45 PM (BI5O2)

380 But the part they miss is what “free” gets you. Like everything govt gives away for “free” it’s rationed and shitty. It’s hard to get into college in Europe. And there’s no $30M library or gym on campus. Everything is old and run down. There are the exceptions like Oxford but that is NOT free, even for UK students.

It takes a special kind of cluelessness to call it "free". Who do you think pays for it, you twits? Do you think it just falls unbidden from the sky?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 22, 2026 04:45 PM (Riz8t)

381 Stop going out to breakfast. Stop going out to lunch. Stop going out to dinner.

This is how we who have nice houses did it.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 22, 2026 04:45 PM (qFwJc)

382 Shelter in place because a fire down the street a ways or in next town? What with fire extinguisher in hand incase your house catches fire?
Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2026 04:43 PM (Ia/+0)

Charge up your water hose and get up on top of your roof and soak the place down until they get the fire out.

This is how it's done. Extra bonus points if you're up there in your tighty whiteys while doing it.

*this actually happened*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 04:45 PM (2YhKe)

383 Took me two days to get across TX from the Guadalupe Mountains to Lousy-ana in '93. Dwight Yoakam's "Thousand Miles from Nowhere" was recent then, and I played the tape as I drove through the western section toward San Antonio. Perfect words.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2026 04:42 PM (wzUl9)
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And I thought driving from Mobile to Jacksonville was a long, long haul ...

Posted by: mrp at June 22, 2026 04:45 PM (rj6Yv)

384 375 332 >>Just wait until the Americans go to Europe and see free healthcare and education….

Been there. There's no such thing as free healthcare you idiot and the healthcare in Europe sucks.

I saw Fat Ass Rosie O' Donell is back in the Racist/Homophobic/Evil USA to do some show .....

So much for Ireland ........

Posted by: Jackson K. at June 22, 2026 04:46 PM (jzqpX)

385 Northern Italy could make me fall in love with polenta.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 22, 2026 04:25 PM (Zn6QU)

You don't like grits?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 22, 2026 04:46 PM (ExV1e)

386 Uwe Boll's absolute best movie is...okay. Rampage. It's not good. It's okay.

But people want to support art with messages they like. So, have fun, I guess.

The original Death Wish is actually good, everyone.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Agree on all counts.

Rampage was his most competent film. Some of the kills in Vigilante would make Riki-Oh blush, and they're wildly inappropriate for the scene.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at June 22, 2026 04:46 PM (yFLFB)

387 > The euros thought yellow scgool buses were fake.

In my experience, they see yellow school busses on TV or in movies and they get really excited when they see them in person. Red Solo cups too.

In lots of place in Europe, kids just take public transportation to get to school.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 22, 2026 04:47 PM (mkw2N)

388 But people want to support art with messages they like. So, have fun, I guess.
____

I watched He-Man yesterday. It was a fun movie. Orko gave the message after the first credits were shown, in case you didn't pick up on the message of teamwork watching the story unfold.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 22, 2026 04:47 PM (Dv3i1)

389 >>Got sick in Europe this Spring and wanted to get something, you have to a Pharmacy because their is nothing over the counter, and they are open like bank hours, then you can't get cold and Flu you have to but everything separate. the one time we forgot to pack cold and flu meds I get sick

The dad of a friend of mine in the UK had a fairly serious heart condition that required surgery. NHS took 8 months to schedule the procedure.

Living in Boston for years it was very common to see people coming to the city for serious and even not so serious treatment. Cause the healthcare is free in Canada.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 22, 2026 04:47 PM (viF8m)

390 Such a difference in reaction from people who come here because they were "oppressed" and "persecuted" and get everything FREE and do nothing but bitch and moan and commit elaborate frauds on the taxpayers. Then we have these folks who spent thousands for the experience and the only thing they're fleeing is bland food and a dearth of big box retail. I love them!!

Posted by: Peaches at June 22, 2026 04:47 PM (7MXBW)

391 Stop going out to breakfast. Stop going out to lunch. Stop going out to dinner.

This is how we who have nice houses did it.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 22, 2026

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I've already done most of those things and have for years. Thats how I have the money to make a big down payment on a house -- once I find one I like.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2026 04:47 PM (wzUl9)

392 Thunderstorm's about to hit. Ayup.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 22, 2026 04:48 PM (Riz8t)

393 374 Have to admit, the videos with Europeans showing shock at the prospect of buying ten pounds of ground beef and a gallon of ice cream puzzles me. Do these folks not invite friends over for a cookout?
Posted by: Sam Adams at June 22, 2026 04:43 PM (X+xvk)

Hard to do a cookout when you live in a shitty flat

Posted by: Heroq at June 22, 2026 04:48 PM (YO3Ap)

394 In my experience, they see yellow school busses on TV or in movies and they get really excited when they see them in person. Red Solo cups too.

In lots of place in Europe, kids just take public transportation to get to school.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 22, 2026 04:47 PM (mkw2N)
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I went to school at an army base in Germany. We lived out in the countryside, so the army chartered tour buses as our school buses. Sometimes they'd be top-of-the-line busses. Sometimes they'd be POS's. You just never knew what the school bus was going to be from day to day.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 22, 2026 04:48 PM (gnNyN)

395 Nice to see an appreciation of America... Too Bad a lot of our own Citizens don't feel that way....

Posted by: It's me donna at June 22, 2026 04:48 PM (afi9t)

396 I saw Shitty Flat open for The Atomic Bitchwax at The Curtain Club in '99.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 22, 2026 04:49 PM (2YhKe)

397 Cause the healthcare is free in Canada.

And it's government run, so you know the management is top flight.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 22, 2026 04:49 PM (Riz8t)

398 I love grits. But dago grits is better. I think maybe because it isn't made from hominy. Not sure what it is.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 22, 2026 04:49 PM (BI5O2)

399 In lots of place in Europe, kids just take public transportation to get to school.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 22, 2026 04:47 PM (mkw2N)

Ewww.

Posted by: LASue at June 22, 2026 04:49 PM (1MCHl)

400 Watching a T-storm heading my direction for awhile, not sure hitting or by passing

Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2026 04:49 PM (Ia/+0)

401 Has anyone seen the videos where Brits are freaking out at seeing a school bus?

Somewhat related, I just watched schoolbus racing on a small dirt oval. In Canada, though. I hope we do it here, too.

Posted by: t-bird at June 22, 2026 04:49 PM (ReYtg)

402 And in many places you're not even paying for the maintenance of the facilities. They often look like they were last cleaned when Churchill was on the radio.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 22, 2026 04:43 PM (mkw2N)

or an inch of water that's on the floor, we stopped at a truckstop where you could see where the Sound of Music was filmed, the Hills are alive with the sound of Music, found out when I got home found out a former classmate was a Von Trapp, they dropped the Von in the US.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at June 22, 2026 04:50 PM (zMUto)

403 Hard to do a cookout when you live in a shitty flat
Posted by: Heroq at June 22, 2026 04:48 PM (YO3Ap)
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Equipped with a tiny fridge and maybe a freezer.

Posted by: mrp at June 22, 2026 04:50 PM (rj6Yv)

404 Took me two days to get across TX from the Guadalupe Mountains to Lousy-ana in '93. Dwight Yoakam's "Thousand Miles from Nowhere" was recent then, and I played the tape as I drove through the western section toward San Antonio. Perfect words.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2026 04:42 PM (wzUl9)
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And I thought driving from Mobile to Jacksonville was a long, long haul ...
Posted by: mrp at June 22, 2026 04:45 PM (rj6Yv)

The boys are thirsty in Atlanta
and there's beer in Texarkana . . .

Posted by: Zombie Jerry Reed at June 22, 2026 04:50 PM (wVcYX)

405 354 Wolfus Aurelius, be patient. And stop wasting money on stupid shit. Why are you still a renter? Washing your car, going out to diners, etc. Miss Linda?

Man up and learn how to cook. Wash your own car. Stop buying coffee unless you brew it yourself.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 22, 2026 04:41 PM (qFwJc)

Wins Most Boomer Coded Comment of the Day.

Posted by: You kids and your avocado toast at June 22, 2026 04:51 PM (TbWk/)

406 What do you call it when when you have to pay for all the free stuff?
Posted by: Boss Moss
.......

Surprise!

Posted by: wth at June 22, 2026 04:51 PM (UjdFS)

407 Just a thought:

Individual Boston pubs could've run out of most of their popular beers?

Whoever posted that they "still had Bud Light" sounds right to me.

I stopped drinking ALL AB beers due to that cross-dressing freak Dylan showing up on the cans. Also, if I wanted a "light beer," I could just add my own water to a real beer.

Posted by: mnw at June 22, 2026 04:51 PM (RCjYY)

408 Nice to see an appreciation of America...

It does lift one's mood. This was a great feelgood post.

Posted by: t-bird at June 22, 2026 04:51 PM (ReYtg)

409 I saw Shitty Flat open for The Atomic Bitchwax at The Curtain Club in '99.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Their cover of Life Is A Highway is inferior and unnecessary.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at June 22, 2026 04:51 PM (yFLFB)

410 The boys are thirsty in Atlanta
and there's beer in Texarkana . . .

Posted by: Zombie Jerry Reed

Didja ever notice that Sally Fields had a really nice backside?

Posted by: Zombie Andy Rooney at June 22, 2026 04:51 PM (Riz8t)

411 They have to pay to use public restroom in Europe. In most blue states in America you can shit for free on the streets

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 22, 2026 04:51 PM (Iurxt)

412 Colonel Sanders fed the employees of the Manhatten project during the war. Tennessee. He had the contract.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 22, 2026 04:52 PM (sasms)

413 The boys are thirsty in Atlanta
and there's beer in Texarkana . . .
Posted by: Zombie Jerry Reed at June 22, 2026 04:50 PM (wVcYX)
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I always thought Jerry Reed was cooler than Burt Reynolds.

Posted by: mrp at June 22, 2026 04:52 PM (rj6Yv)

414 about 15ish years ago the premier of a Canadian province went to Miami for surgery. Which is so weird. He was only 90 miles from the best health care on the planet in Cuba, per Sean Penn and Michael Moore.why stop in Miami?

Posted by: Heroq at June 22, 2026 04:53 PM (YO3Ap)

415 In lots of place in Europe, kids just take public transportation to get to school.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 22, 2026 04:47 PM (mkw2N)

Ewww.
Posted by: LASue at June 22, 2026 04:49 PM (1MCHl)

How do rural kids get to school, I wonder?

Anyway, it would be unthinkable to send children on public transit like my brother used to go out of district in Pittsburgh, these days. Nobody wants junior being immolated by a meth crazed Aztec pavement ape.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 22, 2026 04:53 PM (BI5O2)

416 and the disturbing taxidermy practices of Autrians. Antlers on a squirrel is distrubing.

Posted by: Orson at June 22, 2026 04:29 PM (dIske)

My people!!

Posted by: Chuck Testa at June 22, 2026 04:53 PM (wLjpr)

417 377 The euros thought yellow scgool buses were fake.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 22, 2026 04:44 PM (sasms)

Same with the High School Football Stadiums, some of the teams are using High Schools as bases to train and they are better facilitates than what they have home

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at June 22, 2026 04:53 PM (zMUto)

418
I was watching some British cooking competition and they had a Mexican food themed segment. It was so funny. 90% of the contestants had never even heard of the foods they were trying to recreate. They were literally just guessing what might go into the dish based on the name.

I get they don't have much of a tradition, but you've never even seen a taco on TV?
Posted by: bonhomme at June 22, 2026 04:42 PM (mkw2N)

The Chelsea Vindaloo Gooseberry Tacos that are traditional in Kings Cross, London are delicious.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 22, 2026 04:54 PM (y9nCu)

419 Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s latest financial disclosures show dramatically lower reported asset values than an earlier filing that listed millions of dollars in businesses connected to her husband.

Well, I also misreported how much I made in 2025 and demand I get a total refund of all taxes I paid when I can prove I only made $4.57 last year !!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson K. at June 22, 2026 04:54 PM (jzqpX)

420 Wins Most Boomer Coded Comment of the Day.
Posted by: You kids and your avocado toast at June 22, 2026 04:51 PM (TbWk/)

golf clap.

Posted by: LASue at June 22, 2026 04:54 PM (1MCHl)

421 I've already done most of those things and have for years. Thats how I have the money to make a big down payment on a house -- once I find one I like.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2026 04:47 PM (wzUl9)

You're just a stupid spendthrift slacker like all the rest of those Zoomers, with your GrubHub and lattes! Give your bootstraps a firm handshake and money will just fall out of the sky into your bank account. Just work an extra evening at the sock hop and the world's your oyster!

Posted by: You suck, Wolfus, you SUCK!!!! at June 22, 2026 04:54 PM (TbWk/)

422 It's ass kicking time!

New York Post
Jun 21, 2026
@nypost
Elon Musk 'needs to answer' for 4.5M kids 'sentenced to death' over DOGE cuts, Ro Khanna argues

Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Time to sue this liar

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 22, 2026 04:54 PM (ndZc7)

423 Just wait until the Americans go to Europe and see free healthcare and education…

LOL.. Yeah.. Just wait....
Posted by: It's me donna at June 22, 2026 04:36 PM (afi9t)

I'm of the opinion that anyone who says "free healthcare" unironically should be beaten to death.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 22, 2026 04:54 PM (ExV1e)

424
The Land of Milk and Honey!

Stay out!

Posted by: Frank Barone at June 22, 2026 04:55 PM (OkYzo)

425 of course there's free drink refills, we're not barbarians!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 22, 2026 04:55 PM (n5tGW)

426 the only guns he saw were at a range. Witness the beauty of concealed carry.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 22, 2026 04:37 PM (gm9Sb)

I thought that on one video. Fella said no guns around and I just laughed.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 22, 2026 04:55 PM (ExV1e)

427 I saw a Facebook post this morning claiming that all the Europeans were just loving Newy York, Boston, San Fran, LA and all the anti-Maga hotspots.

Delusional. There are no Buc-Ee's in New York, Boston, San Fran and LA.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 22, 2026 04:56 PM (cVC2/)

428 Why doesn't the government give us more free stuff?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 22, 2026 04:56 PM (sasms)

429 Euros eating FRIED CHICKEN is disgusting !!!

Don't they know that it is insulting to PERSONS OF COLOR to even mention you ate or like POPEYES FRIED CHICKEN !

Posted by: Jackson K. at June 22, 2026 04:56 PM (jzqpX)

430 Didja ever notice that Sally Fields had a really nice backside?

S&tB was peak Sally Fields Backside.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 22, 2026 04:56 PM (vTZFs)

431 411 They have to pay to use public restroom in Europe. In most blue states in America you can shit for free on the streets
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 22, 2026 04:51 PM (Iurxt)

Was on a School trip to Boston with 40 kids from the Suburbs of Columbus, they could not understand why all the fastfood places in Boston had to have codes on the Bathroom doors, and I had to stop some of the kids because a homless man was use the park bathroom to clean himself in the sink.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at June 22, 2026 04:56 PM (zMUto)

432 I loved the video where the euro is in Costco and goes holy shit it’s even bigger than Walmart.

Posted by: Heroq at June 22, 2026 04:56 PM (YO3Ap)

433 Some of the euros are amazed at the size of college football stadiums.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 22, 2026 04:57 PM (sasms)

434 I shall heartily recommend Fidelity Investments to all my enemies.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2026 04:37 PM (wzUl9)

I use Fidelity for my HSA as they are the only one with a decent return without having to actually invest, which the wife cannot face.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 22, 2026 04:57 PM (ExV1e)

435 I'm of the opinion that anyone who says "free healthcare" unironically should be beaten to death.
____

There isn't such a place where the doctors, nurses, administrators, imaging technicians, janitors etc. all work for free? I'm disappointed.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 22, 2026 04:57 PM (Dv3i1)

436 406 What do you call it when when you have to pay for all the free stuff?
Posted by: Boss Moss
.......
Surprise!
Posted by: wth

But they promised only the rich would pay!!!

Posted by: Retarded Euro Fag who always votes green at June 22, 2026 04:57 PM (ycI94)

437 The Land of Milk and Honey!

Sounds sticky

Posted by: Jerry Gourd at June 22, 2026 04:57 PM (TbWk/)

438 Euros can't buy a lot of groceries at a time because their refrigerators are the size you put in a college dorm room. So to the store everyday, I'd hate that.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 22, 2026 04:57 PM (n5tGW)

439 174 Yeah, that chick on the left has it going on. Hubba hubba.

Posted by: Bulg at June 22, 2026 04:58 PM (77rzZ)

440 I thought that on one video. Fella said no guns around and I just laughed.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 22, 2026 04:55 PM (ExV1e)

It'd be funny if one of the influencers asked "Who here has a gun?", and nearly everyone raises their hand.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 22, 2026 04:58 PM (dK+Kv)

441 I watched He-Man yesterday. It was a fun movie. Orko gave the message after the first credits were shown, in case you didn't pick up on the message of teamwork watching the story unfold.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

I was bored yesterday so I went to see "Masters of the Universe ".. Dumb fun. Theater was full of middle aged couples. Hardly any kids.

Posted by: Tuna at June 22, 2026 04:58 PM (lJ0H4)

442 I saw a Facebook post this morning claiming that all the Europeans were just loving Newy York, Boston, San Fran, LA and all the anti-Maga hotspots.

—

So we’re at the X did not happen (Atlantic) and it’s also good X happened (Facebook post)stage of the process.

Posted by: Heroq at June 22, 2026 04:59 PM (YO3Ap)

443 Euros can't buy a lot of groceries at a time because their refrigerators are the size you put in a college dorm room. So to the store everyday, I'd hate that.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 22, 2026 04:57 PM (n5tGW)

Just in time eating never appealed to me.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 22, 2026 04:59 PM (dK+Kv)

444 Justine Bateman must be an oldest sibling. She's a breath of fresh air.

Posted by: LASue at June 22, 2026 04:59 PM (1MCHl)

445 Wolfus

I dunno where you live, but your new house would be a LOT cheaper in flyover land.

Posted by: mnw at June 22, 2026 04:59 PM (RCjYY)

446 I like the N Korean sisters' vids. Their enthusiasm is genuine and heartwarming. And their stuff predates the World Cup tourists.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 22, 2026 04:39 PM (y9nCu)

Although they need to keep snacks in their car because Ina is always hungry.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 22, 2026 04:59 PM (ExV1e)

447 Their is a resturant in London where you can go and use the Drink dispensor like at the fastfood here in the US, my Nephew found this place because he was sick of having no refills

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at June 22, 2026 04:59 PM (zMUto)

448 I shall heartily recommend Fidelity Investments to all my enemies.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2026
*
I use Fidelity for my HSA as they are the only one with a decent return without having to actually invest, which the wife cannot face.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 22, 2026

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Well, I must have hit the Incompetence Lottery, or gotten the department where they shuttle all the legacy hires and slackwits. Seven months of back and forth mails and phone calls is ridiculous. And after all this time, they could send the checks by a faster method, as (I admit) they did with all the reams of forms I had to fill out.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2026 05:00 PM (wzUl9)

449 What do you call it when when you have to pay for all the free stuff?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Redistribution of wealth?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 22, 2026 05:00 PM (ndZc7)

450 Euros can't buy a lot of groceries at a time because their refrigerators are the size you put in a college dorm room. So to the store everyday, I'd hate that.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 22, 2026 04:57 PM (n5tGW)
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All real Americans hate that. We love our refrigerator-freezers. Some of us love them so much we put one in the kitchen, one in the basement, and maybe two in the garage.

Posted by: mrp at June 22, 2026 05:01 PM (rj6Yv)

451 While it may be difficult to be kind to Wolfus, me must out of charity.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 22, 2026 05:01 PM (qFwJc)

452 Wolfus

I dunno where you live, but your new house would be a LOT cheaper in flyover land.
Posted by: mnw at June 22, 2026

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That's where I'm planning to go!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2026 05:01 PM (wzUl9)

453 >>Delusional. There are no Buc-Ee's in New York, Boston, San Fran and LA.

I can't speak for the rest of the areas but I can guarantee you the Scotts were not hanging out with the far left in Boston. They were drinking pubs and bars with largely white, working class clientele that are not part of the 2 Spirt LGBTQ+ circuit.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 22, 2026 05:01 PM (viF8m)

454 425 of course there's free drink refills, we're not barbarians!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 22, 2026 04:55 PM

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Hey, uh when we first come in the bar lady didn't charge us for the first round of beer so we figured that beer was complimentary for the band.....

Posted by: Elwood Blues of the Good Ol' Boys Band at June 22, 2026 05:01 PM (OkYzo)

455 Plenty of leftist American scum subscribe to the “go shopping every day” lifestyle. It’s their whole thing about now owning a car. No car means you can’t buy more than a few things at a time unless you want to carry 20 bags with you for several city blocks.

Posted by: Heroq at June 22, 2026 05:02 PM (YO3Ap)

456 Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 22, 2026 05:01 PM (qFwJc)

Well. I like Wolfus and have no difficulty being nice to him

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 22, 2026 05:02 PM (7RYym)

457 of course there's free drink refills, we're not barbarians!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 22, 2026 04:55 PM

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Hey, uh when we first come in the bar lady didn't charge us for the first round of beer so we figured that beer was complimentary for the band.....

Posted by: Elwood Blues of the Good Ol' Boys Band at June 22, 2026 05:01 PM (OkYzo)

Trotter in Saratoga, NY, use to have a $20 all you can drink beer, all you can eat wings every Sunday. Many a shenanigan started out there.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 22, 2026 05:03 PM (dK+Kv)

458 394 I went to school at an army base in Germany. We lived out in the countryside, so the army chartered tour buses as our school buses.

were i was in italy, the army had regular bus service going to and from base. green busses, naturally. the school busses were just more of the green busses.

had an italian bus driver take a corner on two wheels once. never saw him again.

Posted by: anachronda at June 22, 2026 05:03 PM (sGtp+)

459 Well. I like Wolfus and have no difficulty being nice to him
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 22, 2026

***
Thanks, Fen. I think some of the Horde are just being what they think is funnier than usual today.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2026 05:04 PM (wzUl9)

460
Speaking of furriners... some local news here.

Man falls into vault toilet while trying to rescue sunglasses

https://tinyurl.com/3wd8x4vr

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 22, 2026 05:04 PM (y9nCu)

461 When did Australians become pricks??

I saw that Canada chased out some US Hockey players, because of their visit to the White House and meeting Trump, He requested a trade from Ottawa because they wouldn't let it drop and kept going after him, the GM said the Press and the Fans were a factor in asking for the trade.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at June 22, 2026 05:04 PM (zMUto)

462 I went to school at an army base in Germany. We lived out in the countryside, so the army chartered tour buses as our school buses.

were i was in italy, the army had regular bus service going to and from base. green busses, naturally. the school busses were just more of the green busses.

had an italian bus driver take a corner on two wheels once. never saw him again.

Posted by: anachronda at June 22, 2026 05:03 PM (sGtp+)

We had the blue Air Force buses as school buses.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 22, 2026 05:05 PM (dK+Kv)

463 I can't speak for the rest of the areas but I can guarantee you the Scotts were not hanging out with the far left in Boston. They were drinking pubs and bars with largely white, working class clientele that are not part of the 2 Spirt LGBTQ+ circuit.
Posted by: JackStraw

These blue cities were built decades ago by much, much better people (robber barons, even) than those who are currently running these cities into the ground.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 22, 2026 05:05 PM (Dv3i1)

464
The smallest US World Cup venue seats 64,000. We have about 100 football stadiums with that capacity. In each of the last five World Cups, only one stadium seated that many.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 22, 2026 05:05 PM (O0L8i)

465 447 Their is a resturant in London where you can go and use the Drink dispensor like at the fastfood here in the US, my Nephew found this place because he was sick of having no refills

my local mcdonalds doesn't do free refills anymore. that's not the only way that it's become incompetent since the new management took over.

Posted by: anachronda at June 22, 2026 05:05 PM (sGtp+)

466 Speaking of furriners... some local news here.

Man falls into vault toilet while trying to rescue sunglasses

https://tinyurl.com/3wd8x4vr

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 22, 2026 05:04 PM (y9nCu)

Anyone seen Boulder Terlit Hobo?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 22, 2026 05:05 PM (dK+Kv)

467 Judge quashes ‘unlawful’ subpoenas he says Trump administration was using to harass Minnesota Democrats

The judge said that the subpoenas, served in January while the administration was ramping up its immigration enforcement efforts, were “no doubt” intended to harass Trump’s foes.

https://tinyurl.com/r8ydy4wx

Posted by: Don Black at June 22, 2026 05:06 PM (vu/LI)

468 America is the best country in the world. Let’s save it from the godless heathens.

Posted by: Eromero at June 22, 2026 05:06 PM (byXQ4)

469 All real Americans hate that. We love our refrigerator-freezers. Some of us love them so much we put one in the kitchen, one in the basement, and maybe two in the garage.
Posted by: mrp
.......

My garage refrigerator is dedicated only for beer and ice cream. It's usually full. Sometimes I let the grandkids put soda in there.

Posted by: wth at June 22, 2026 05:06 PM (UjdFS)

470 Wolfus (Part II):

How about handling your OWN investments, by using a discount brokerage such as E*Trade?

What is it you thought you were getting from Fidelity? What were you getting that you couldn't do yourself?

I once saw the "incentive catalog" for a full service brokerage and financial services outfit. I'm not paying to send a salesman & his familoy to Tahiti!

Posted by: mnw at June 22, 2026 05:06 PM (RCjYY)

471 Anyone seen Boulder Terlit Hobo?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 22, 2026 05:05 PM (dK+Kv)

Not since Maine Kampf visited his assigned portalet...

Posted by: The horror...the horror... at June 22, 2026 05:06 PM (TbWk/)

472 Man falls into vault toilet while trying to rescue sunglasses
____

Just shade your eyes and squint until you can get to a gas station. Even if the sunglasses landed neatly at the top of the pile within reach, let them go.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 22, 2026 05:07 PM (Dv3i1)

473 455 Plenty of leftist American scum subscribe to the “go shopping every day” lifestyle. It’s their whole thing about now owning a car. No car means you can’t buy more than a few things at a time unless you want to carry 20 bags with you for several city blocks.

'round here, they just steal the carts. i've seen a city pickup driving around town to collect the shopping carts that have wound up in unexpected places.

Posted by: anachronda at June 22, 2026 05:07 PM (sGtp+)

474
When I lived in England, I was shocked to find out in restaurants I was charged for each cup of coffee. Like, I needed three just to get going.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 22, 2026 05:07 PM (O0L8i)

475 Anyone seen Boulder Terlit Hobo?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 22, 2026 05:05 PM (dK+Kv)

Not since Maine Kampf visited his assigned portalet...

Posted by: The horror...the horror... at June 22, 2026 05:06 PM (TbWk/)

He got got by Honey Bucket Hitler?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 22, 2026 05:07 PM (dK+Kv)

476 My garage refrigerator is dedicated only for beer and ice cream. It's usually full. Sometimes I let the grandkids put soda in there.
Posted by: wth at June 22, 2026 05:06 PM (UjdFS)
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You are a hero!

Posted by: mrp at June 22, 2026 05:07 PM (rj6Yv)

477 New York Post
Jun 21, 2026
@nypost
Elon Musk 'needs to answer' for 4.5M kids 'sentenced to death' over DOGE cuts, Ro Khanna argues

Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Time to sue this liar
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 22, 2026 04:54 PM (ndZc7)

Oddly enough, this is the topic of the NOOD!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 22, 2026 05:07 PM (ExV1e)

478 Murica! F Yeah!

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 22, 2026 05:09 PM (mP0Kj)

479 How about handling your OWN investments, by using a discount brokerage such as E*Trade?

What is it you thought you were getting from Fidelity? What were you getting that you couldn't do yourself?

I once saw the "incentive catalog" for a full service brokerage and financial services outfit. I'm not paying to send a salesman & his family to Tahiti!
Posted by: mnw at June 22, 2026

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Oh, no! This was a pension plan that I paid into on a job I held from '78-'87. I had completely forgotten about it until Fidelity sent me a letter saying I might have benefits coming. I didn't seek them out and am not paying them!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2026 05:09 PM (wzUl9)

480 Every other host country has to spend billions on building stadiums, improving roads and airports, building hotels, all sorts of shit.

All we did was spend a couple of bucks putting in real grass in said stadiums that had artificial turf. Everything else is just there already. We have 80k stadiums and major airports in every city and more hotel rooms that can ever be filled. They prep for a once in a.m Lifetime situation that is an average Tuesday for us.

Posted by: Heroq at June 22, 2026 05:09 PM (YO3Ap)

481 Never had an issue with Fidelity. When I say jump, they say how high? While airborne.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 22, 2026 05:10 PM (wBaIH)

482 Well. I like Wolfus and have no difficulty being nice to him

I like him too. But sometimes a man needs a kick in the pants. Just tired of the whining. Man up!

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 22, 2026 05:10 PM (qFwJc)

483 Nood CA dot head.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 22, 2026 05:11 PM (wBaIH)

484 470 addendum:

It was Edward Jones that almost made me throw up, btw.

I saw their "sales incentive brochure," which is NOT intended for their customers to see, because the daughter of a friend of mine designed it, and she was proud of it, and rightly so. It was a beautiful brochure, but... it had an unintended effect!

Posted by: mnw at June 22, 2026 05:11 PM (RCjYY)

485 Well. I like Wolfus and have no difficulty being nice to him
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I like him too. But sometimes a man needs a kick in the pants. Just tired of the whining. Man up!
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 22, 2026

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Everybody here complains about things from time to time. I thought that was part of the fun of AoSHQ.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2026 05:12 PM (wzUl9)

486 It's ass kicking time!

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Time to sue this liar
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 22, 2026 04:54 PM (ndZc7)
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Don't have a microwave, but I do have a cast iron pot to make some popcorn with.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at June 22, 2026 05:12 PM (ZHOnm)

487 I wish a university would offer a course on Marx and instead of his useless, importunate, political bleating and economic theory of streamlining begging by upgrading it to robbery, it would consist of studying the letters he wrote asking for money and the replies he received.

You could even appeal to feminists by showing how his wife had to work difficult and menial jobs because he was too busy sitting around a library regaling people with his idea of how to rearrange society to his own best satisfaction to get a job of his own.

There is your patriarchy.

Posted by: Thatch at June 22, 2026 05:14 PM (i0077)

488 "funnier than usual?" Perhaps. I truly pray for Wolfus, but he keeps making bad decisions. He has been making them for decades. He was not catechised.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 22, 2026 05:15 PM (qFwJc)

489 curse it for having so much poverty

But we really don't. We've 1) defined poverty upward because we're so wealthy, and 2) our numbers are inflated by drug addicts and such, who really should be institutionalized. (Also, there's some amount of inflating the numbers just so you can get more money for your "programs.")

Posted by: GWB at June 22, 2026 05:16 PM (kU0PQ)

490 Fake. A right-wing op.

Seems if it were, we could find non-elitist Euros complaining about how awful things are here. But they're hard to find, honestly.

Posted by: GWB at June 22, 2026 05:18 PM (kU0PQ)

491 There are two parts to the story on the left. At the top you have the people running the party, they fully recognize that you need poverty to build resentment. Thus it is poverty by design. Middle class get's more independent? Soln: import a whole new set of people that will be dependent on govt. welfare. Better yet, if they can do it in a way that includes a pre-determined mindset based on socialism.

Then you have the useful idiots that have been indoctrinated or are so low IQ that they support the machine without any resistance. This is why the left needs the media to push this propaganda; and why they need a boogeyman.

Posted by: Trip at June 22, 2026 05:26 PM (ADSqk)

492 Marx sounds like a typical lefty.

What kind of tips would he be demanding if he ever lowered himself to actual work? 75%? 90%?

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 22, 2026 05:44 PM (w6EFb)

493 You could even appeal to feminists by showing how his wife had to work difficult and menial jobs because he was too busy sitting around a library regaling people with his idea of how to rearrange society to his own best satisfaction to get a job of his own.

There is your patriarchy.

Posted by: Thatch at June 22, 2026 05:14 PM (i0077)

Well, this sounds a lot like Bernie Sanders, who was kicked out of a commune for laziness.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 22, 2026 05:45 PM (w6EFb)

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