Out of Pod Experience

Make it clear to your future wife... you love bacon.

No knocking on Denny's man. Spent many a drunk night sleeping in the stall until they brought somebody in to drag me out and who knows how many mornings (including the following of the previous events) drinking coffee and smoking an entire pack of cigarettes before they put the smoking ban in. Those waitresses and staff were practically family.

I think the rest of the world just doesn't get it. The vast majority of Americans look at things like this and say "wtf?" along with the rest of you. It's just that we embrace all the weird crazy stuff that comes out of our culture, while many countries (I'm looking at you, most of western Europe) do everything the can to hide it and present a facade of propriety and civility.

I'm of the mind that we're no different than other nations. Every country has groups they'd just as soon hide from the rest of the world. What sets us apart is our population of 300,000,000. Our annoying little subcultures are big enough to be viable markets, making them unfortunately public. Add to that our current national obsession with "reality" television (fueled primarily by the media that makes money from it), and we get a media that takes all these misfits and trots them around in front of cameras for the rest of us to gawk at.

A Denny's wedding chapel just tells me there are too many drunken redneck weddings in Vegas.

A free man !
Thats why I can argue

Denny's shares the same crowd as Wal-mart. This means that you would have to explain to them in layman's terms what a Dietician is before you can include one, granted their insurance covers something like that.

The difference between the US and western Europe is convenience over quality of life. These are two completely different entities, but Americans don't make this distinction. As long as they have Wal-Mart, 24-hour anything, and their favorite chain restaurant, they could live in a toxic waste disposal site. Convenience is much, much more important to Americans than anything else, and I mean ANYTHING. This type of mentality perpetuates also the uglier side of the US such as the neocons and religious zealots, not to mention your everyday idiot redneck/gangster/thug.

You mean I have to leave my house to go grocery shopping? **** that. I'm gonna set up a service where people will deliver that **** to me for free just because I'm lazy.

Then I'm gonna take a 1984 Cutlass and jack it up and put giant tires on it with spinners.

Welfare is the least of America's problems right now. Rampant stupidity and ignorance among citizens is rotting the US from the inside out. Education and health care are two of the most important things to every single human being, yet for some reason not everyone is afforded these benefits.

You can't really explain this to very many Americans because it's all they've ever known. It's like explaining what the color red is like to a person who's been blind their entire life. I've lived all over the world and the US is not even in my top five places I'd like to live...and I'm American. This is not due to "the gubment" or lobbies or the working class or the upper class or whatever, this is simply due to me not being able to stand the ignorance I had to hear on a daily basis.

People will throw out the argument of, "Well it's a country of 300 million people! Not everyone is like that!" Yes they are. 90% of the population fits into distinct categories and none of them ever think outside the bubble, whether it be atheists or the religious, liberals or conservatives, young or old, everyone has the same opinion as their peers in their own collective. In other words, I already know what each and every one of that 90% is going to say before they say it. We've become predictable, unimaginative, and dull. This is because we're comfortable with our minds being idle, and this is why Denny's now has a wedding chapel and Rome has the Sistine Chapel.