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Should the United States be more like Europe?


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Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but certain places like Ireland and Scotland have been quite aggressive in banning smoking.

Crap. Individual nations are making it really difficult for me to make sweeping generalizations of an entire continent.

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I for one have no desire to have a monarch, which presumably would require their keeping up appearances like other royals do. So, we would spend taxpayer money to basically outfit someone with lots of money and fancy houses that don't get used much. Loopholes in the tax code that make rich people richer already do this in effect; there's no real need to go out of our way to designate a special really rich person just so they can occasionally cut ribbons and then dally away our money playing polo and interbreeding.

Or is there some benefit to modern monarchies that I'm missing here?

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YES! We could quit bathing every day and just wear loads and loads of perfume.

Charmed as I am by the charitable concern so many Americans appear to have for any possible flaws in European personal hygiene routines, before I respond with my own well meaning and entirely humble observations concerning the few tiny shadows that occasionally obscure the light unto nations that is American society has anyone yet established whether shootme is in fact European or American?

The OP actually suggests a non-European perspective, in general people who actually live in the tiny and fractious nations of Europe tend not to consider the entire peninsula as a single unit, apart from anything else it makes it far harder to mock the Welsh.

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Where were all these gorgeous "hairy European" women when I was growing up in Ukraine? Alas I must have been too near-sighted to notice.

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Oooh, maybe all it would take to turn you on is if American women stopped shaving their armpit hair? And certainly those Brazilian bikini waxes would be out of the question, too, since I assume European women prefer a more "au naturel" look in the bikini area as with their underarms, also.

Believe you me, a cute girl with hairy armpits is infintely more attractive than a fat girl. But this stereotype against European women is not really true, anyway.

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Where were all these gorgeous "hairy European" women when I was growing up in Ukraine? Alas I must have been too near-sighted to notice.

I have heard that Ukrainian women are disproportinately gorgeous but I haven't been there to judge it for myself. Having been to other Eastern European countries, I will state that the stereotype about Eastern European women (that they are on average, more attractive than women from any other part of the world) is if anything, an understatement.

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Believe you me, a cute girl with hairy armpits is infintely more attractive than a fat girl. But this stereotype against European women is not really true, anyway.

Lived in the UK for 5 years, done bits and pieces in Europe. No pit pubes so far.

Hairy hottie > smooth Elephant every single day of the week and twice on Sundays.

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Crap. Individual nations are making it really difficult for me to make sweeping generalizations of an entire continent.

Actually, more and more European nations and cities are implementing bans. Specific organizations are doing it too -- the cafeteria at my workplace used to have a separate room for smokers, but it has been closed and is currently being remodeled into something else.

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ZOOM!

I've always been impressed with the way the Italian and Iberian peninsula appear to provide such excellent handholds, which would enable the entire continent to be hurled, like a shuriken (i.e. a ninja or throwing star, for those of you unfamiliar with the nomenclature of Japanese weaponry).

The United States, in contrast would be forced to rely entirely on Florida which is clearly too small to handle the vast weight of the rest of the country. If the United States were to be used in this manner, the greater bulk of the nation would shear off and tumble headlong into an infinite, unknowable abyss.

Tally-ho!

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Or is there some benefit to modern monarchies that I'm missing here?

Tourism. It could be wrong but I've heard that the british royal family brings in far more money in tourism than they take to maintain.

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Sorry AG, the EU has implemented a smoking ban in public buildings. While it will be implemented on July 1st it's been interpreted somewhat broadly here and applies only to buildings over 75 sq. meters, I think. The places where it applies still have an option to have separate smoking/non-smoking areas. Up 'til now you could ask for no smoking here in restaurants - which means they'd remove the ashtray from the table. I think Greeks will, in general, ignore it as best they can.

As far as the hair thing goes, in my experience it's a myth. When mashiara and I were 'courting' I once asked about it in an e-mail. It went something like this: "So which side of the road do you drive on there? And, oh yeah, do women shave there?" She was somewhat perplexed at the question and thought it gross that women wouldn't.

To the OP: My students, and others, often ask me which is better, the States or Greece to which I always reply there are advantages and disadvantages to living in any given country.

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Look people, the perfect solution is to have SOMEONE ELSE'S Monarchy.

You throw their ugly mug on your money, use their name in a few legal documents and then just ignore the inbred retards except for the 1 or 2 times a year they come visit, when everyone pretends to give a fuck.

Best of both worlds.

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Tourism. It could be wrong but I've heard that the british royal family brings in far more money in tourism than they take to maintain.

If I can remember correctly - it was mentioned earlier that The West Wing did an episode about this and the main reasons were cutting down on all the stupid shit a president has to do, ribbon cutting etc could be palmed off to the 'King'

Still think its pretty daft though.

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Never knew that "my" continent was one big monarchy. Interesting.

Bit sad disgusting to see a good deal of the classic, gleeful underbelly reactions to what in itself was a ridiculous question anyway.

"Oh noes, you can't say THAT about my country, cause ..cause, you know, our women / cars / sports / general hygiene / politics are so much better than yours nevermind that I am generalising hundreds of million people in one go and also, like, we are superior. And we have Jamie L. Go country X."

Rather telling. It would help if that category of people spouting such could grow the fuck up.

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If I can remember correctly - it was mentioned earlier that The West Wing did an episode about this and the main reasons were cutting down on all the stupid shit a president has to do, ribbon cutting etc could be palmed off to the 'King'

Still think its pretty daft though.

Yep, monarchies have to be earned through centuries of inbreeding, fratricide, country-swapping and naked plunder. The US could only import a King at this stage and that would mean heads exploding, nationwide.

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Yep, monarchies have to be earned through centuries of inbreeding, fratricide, country-swapping and naked plunder. The US could only import a King at this stage and that would mean heads exploding, nationwide.

I was tempted to say something similar, but thought it a bit rude.

If you could import any one excisting Monarch and proclaim them King/Queen of USA, who could it be ?

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Sorry AG, the EU has implemented a smoking ban in public buildings.

Nooooo!!!! Dammit, EU! *shakes fist* Are you telling me that Europe is becoming Californian!?!

Please tell me I'm right about the foreskin thing. Europe still skews uncut*, no?

*this does not indicate a personal preference, just a personal observation.

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I was tempted to say something similar, but thought it a bit rude.

If you could import any one excisting Monarch and proclaim them King/Queen of USA, who could it be ?

Heh, well I think we can rule out Betsy Windsor for a start - though heads really would explode and that could be fun to watch...

The Dutch and Belgian royals are stodgy, Harald V of Norway isn't in good health so lets not wear the poor bugger out, Karl Gustav XVI is a bit of a geek and too close to Al Gore. I'm assuming the Japanese and Brunei wouldn't be able to do it for various reasons of national senstitivity.

This leaves us with Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias, King of Spain. He's a good fit for the US: hates Chavez, shoots pregnant bears, likes Ham Radio and rides around on his motorbike incognito, fighting crime. He's got a decent line of secession, speaks fluent English and can be counted on to do all the traditional stuff with dignity.

I haven't dug through all the obscure cadet branches but I think he's about the best you can get for Royals these days.

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I just did some searching through "insert name of European country here porn", and I must say that I did not see much in the way of hair... and I did not happen to see any foreskins either, sorry Arbor. I saw some average and exceptional women (and some of the usual dregs that you find in any country's porn). I guess my hairy Norwegian girl really was just a freak... She had me joyfully singing "I did it all with a Wookie" to myself for quite some time after that though, so it's all good.

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