USA News and Poland - part 16

That sentence shows that you are not an American. The real ones never refer to the United States as "the States". It's a Euro import.


I told you to put that bottle away...

Ridiculous!! Americans abroad always say they're from the States.

My point exactly...To accomodate the Euros who use "the States" or "America"...

Nobody American teacher ever said: Who is the president of the States"?

Lyzko, don't ever try to outenglish me.

No American teacher ...

Its always so obvious when someone comes on here posting and is plastered.

You used to hear 'stateside'. Popular among a certain type of early/mid-1980s business executive/office monkey who'd been there once on holiday to Florida and once on a business trip to New Jersey until people started laughing at them for saying it.

I'd forgotten that one, considering I ever knew it.

@Rich, while we don't say "Who is the president of the States?"
people often refer to the US as either the United States or the States, the latter
in casual conversation.

Post a link to a website where they refer to the US as "the States".

Especially, from the penal colony. How do you deal with these foreign morons on a daily basis? They all have extreme cases of TDS and aren't right in the head.


Did you forget your own history again? Let me remind you!

uwa.edu.au/news/Article/2023/August/From-slavery-to-settler-colonisation-remembering-slavery-from-Australia

They are a depressing bunch aren't they.
amiga came on here today drunk and Novi picked right up on it also.
I just consider the source plus I am going on a very nice vacation soon.

Ask him who contributed more to building America, the Black slaves or the Chinese & Indian slaves.
Send him on a fools errand googling for a day or two.
What a stooge he is.

...with derision and mockery...

They can't stand Trump because in this zero-sum world when we win they lose. It's that simple...

Hence:

EU tariffs - good

US tariffs - bad

New law in Michigan.
You are not allowed to even touch your cell phone in your car.
Period !
My buddy was sitting in a fast food drive thru waiting for his chow and picked up his cell phone to read his texts and got a warning by the police that he had just broken the law.
I for one love this law since I have blue tooth in my truck that I can answer and talk with the buttons on my steering wheel without touching my phone which is legal.
Only in America.

Same in Poland if you are in moving traffic including at a stop light

Not sure about private land like a Macdonald's though - they even want you to scan your phone when you are in line

as long as the engine is running...that's the law in Germany.

For us it's driving with one (unless it's hands free and integrated with the vehicle). If there is a serious accident and one party is using a mobile phone, they are automatically guilty and are always jailed. It is taken very seriously. After accidents, both/all parties' mobile phones are checked to see if there was any activity immediately before the accident.

The law is strict and that is better than the situation in countries where using mo ileś while driving is entirely normal.

A few times in PL, I've been in Ubers where the driver has a video screen attached to the dashboard and is watching films/TV shows while they drive. Most recently one was watching an Uzbek soap opera. This should really be addressed since sooner or later someone will die in a crash due to this.

Like drinking and driving, people are still going to do it even with zero tolerance and a big fine.
The addiction is too great.
I still see just about every other car with the drivers palm talking.

I was once in an Uber and the driver was playing a game on his phone while driving. I told him to pull over and let me out, which he was very unhappy about (we were about 5% of the way to Modlin airport, so the ride would have been a nice earner for him).

@Rich, post a link yourself which says they don't:-)

Ya see? I gotcha that time!

That won't be difficult...... you are both wrong anyway, Europeans mainly call people from the USA Americans.


I object to that, Europeans are not universally against Trump.I think the jury is still out on him.


Slowly becoming a Police state, like much of Europe.

Dont the Brits call us Yanks? I like being the Yank, but it should be Yankee,,😂


Practically every car has this option now unless its a niggggamobile 😆

In polite conversation we would call you Americans.

Yanks is a bit like Brits, friendly but slightly derogatory.

Do you like to be called British or English?

Oh god Joker, those are fighting words !

You got nothing. Only morons ask to prove the negative.

Do you have a link saying that my house was not on fire this year?

As of now it looks like Elizabeth Warren' (Pocahontas) will be running against Trump for his third term.

Will he want to run again... I think he's quite frustrated at the moment.

Pocahontas v Golden Cow ?

Aren't you Americans thinking of getting some younger people to run the country ?

Their last one was 82, this one is 79. It's a gerontocracy.


They don't have third terms there.

How foreigners worry so about America's president. lol
Like Joker said, "start worying about your own F ed up countries."

LOL - you got is backwards son, the Left is so frustrated right now that they don't even have a leader at the moment.

Aren't you an American living in Poland ?

If Trump declares Marshall Law he will stay in as president jon.
That would really rattle you wouldn't it and you are not even an American, you are a ? to embarrassed to say. lol

Who's he?

Does he work at Marshall and Snelgrove?

Did you mean martial law?