Report from the US, a nice but somewhat backward country.

Sharx35 wrote:

"Frank Slootweg" wrote in message
b.home.nl...
wrote:
On Dec 12, 1:34 pm, Frank Slootweg wrote:
Mike O'Sullivan wrote:
Frank Slootweg wrote:
Mike O'Sullivan wrote:
Frank Slootweg wrote:
Hmmm! Before going to the US, I looked at AT&T's and
T-Mobile USA's websites. I didn't find anything like that on
the AT&T site (Don't get me started on AT&T sites.), and the
T-Mobile USA site specifically said that you could get
SIM-only only via their website (and because that required a
US ship-to address, that was no option (not counting the
poorer (than AT&T) coverage)).

So now I'm the proud owner of a beautiful, but totally
useless (outside the US), AT&T GoPhone Nokia 2610 phone [1].
It cost me all of US$ 19.99 (without tax, mind you (Don't get
me started on the without-tax thingie.)), so I'm not
complaining. *And* it includes a charger which is 110-240VAC
(not 240VAC-only), so I can use it everywhere for all my Nokia
phones (albeit with plug-adapters, which are needed anyway)!
I use an unlocked Nokia.
and I've never had any trouble in Canada buying a Fido SIM card.

Very interesting, but I wasn't and we weren't talking about
Canada, was I / were we!? :-)

It's North America, but if the information is uninteresting, feel
free to ignore it.

I think the Canucks (sp?) would probably take offense at the
"North America" classification! :-)

But seriously, please feel free to post anything you like or/and
to ignore me. After all, this is Usenet, isn't it, so anything goes.
I just thought it was funny that you responded to a posting with
subject "... US ..." and splattered all over with "US[A]" this,
"US[A]" that, but gave a non-US related response. But then again, we
Dutch are easily pleased.

So what happened to all your postings regarding abuse of Usenet?

Huh? What the fsck are you babbling about? Have we ever 'met'?

BTW, you may want to look up 'of' and 'on'. Believe it or not, but
they're actually two different words. Figure that!

And since when has the U.S. been a part of Australia or New Zealand?

Have I ever said or implied it was/is?

And since when has have you become an Australian - big deal you have
visited there a handful of times. Doesn't qualify you.

Doesn't qualify me for *what*?

Anyway, what are *you* and what makes *you* (think you're) qualified?

(And you seem to have strange hands. You should see a doctor.)

Why haven't
you been able to immigrate if you so love Australia so much?

Who says I'm not able?

Sorry but you are definitely not qualified to be able to post as if
you were seeing through the eyes of an Aussie! Dream on.

No, I'm not qualified to do that, and never said that I did that, and
never did.

Are you getting help for these reading/comprehension problems of
yours? I certainly hope so.

--
Frank "The anonymous aren't all jerks, but the jerks are all anonymous!"

****ing asshole troll. FOAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

QED. TFP. HTH. EOD. NI. HAND.

pltrgyst wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:48:49 GMT, "Sharx35" wrote:

Well, I have travelled in the U.S., too. After several dozen trips to the U.S.,
**MY** bad experiences are a fraction of yours. I suspect it might be due to
your arrogant Eurocentric, obviously chip on the shoulder attitude to U.S.
culture. I am not a U.S. resident nor a U.S. citizen, however I much prefer
to travel in the U.S., compared to the continent of Europe where the common
attitude is that "WE are the centre of the cultural universe
and the rest of the world are wannabes or boors". :Hell will freeze over
before I travel to the continent of decay, Europe.

Well, I'm pretty sure that at least 99% of us here in the US would rather have
Frank visit than you.

I'm not quite sure if that was a compliment or not! Afterall, all is
relative, isn't it? :-) I.e. something like "I would rather have a
broken leg than a missing eye!". :-)

On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:51:42 GMT, "Sharx35"
wrote:


I just happen to BE a Canadian who does NOT take offense at the term "North
America".
You surly, thin-skinned, America-phobic European assholes should grow some
thicker
skins to match your thick skulls. If you don't like "North American"
culture, then stay the ****
out of this newsgroup or stay in some limp-wristed Euro group. Or, simply,
FOAD. Anyone with any
brains moved from Europe a LONG time ago.

They weren't stupid enough to go to Canada, that's for sure.







But seriously, please feel free to post anything you like or/and to
ignore me. After all, this is Usenet, isn't it, so anything goes. I just
thought it was funny that you responded to a posting with subject "...
US ..." and splattered all over with "US[A]" this, "US[A]" that, but gave
a
non-US related response. But then again, we Dutch are easily pleased.

On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:58:12 GMT, "Sharx35"
wrote:



"John Kulp" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:48:49 GMT, "Sharx35"
wrote:


If anyone has any doubts, we *loved* our trip and would do something
similar again in a flash, so you Seppos aren't all that bad!

Well, I have travelled in the U.S., too. After several dozen trips to the
U.S.,
**MY** bad experiences are a fraction of yours. I suspect it might be due
to
your arrogant Eurocentric, obviously chip on the shoulder attitude to U.S.
culture. I am not a U.S. resident nor a U.S. citizen, however I much
prefer
to travel in the U.S., compared
to the continent of Europe where the common attitude is that "WE are the
centre of the cultural universe
and the rest of the world are wannabes or boors". :Hell will freeze over
before I
travel to the continent of decay, Europe.

With your sense of humor, they will miss you like they do the bubonic
plague.

I have a GREAT sense of humour, however I do NOT suffer Eurocentric fools
gladly. If
they don't like it here in NORTH AMERICA, let them stay the **** AWAY.

Better you stay away with your moronic views.

On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:06:16 GMT, "Sharx35"
wrote:



"Dick Adams" wrote in message
...
Sharx35 wrote:

I have a GREAT sense of humour,

You fooled most of us.

however I do NOT suffer Eurocentric fools gladly.

Frome wence did you ancestors come?

If they don't like it here in NORTH AMERICA, let them stay the **** AWAY.

Alas a true Isolationist. Have you no need for tourist dollars?

Dick

Where I live, in Alberta, NO...absolutely not.


He'll be after the French Canadians next if he hasn't been already.

On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:47:47 +0000 (UTC), (Dick
Adams) wrote:

Sharx35 wrote:
"Dick Adams" wrote:
Sharx35 wrote:

If they don't like it here in NORTH AMERICA, let them stay the **** AWAY.

Alas a true Isolationist. Have you no need for tourist dollars?

Where I live, in Alberta, NO...absolutely not.

Have you forgotten the tourist dollars from the Calgary Stampede?

Winter comes early in western Canada east of the Continental Divide.
If you're there in the dead of winter, -40C is not unusual. Per
Weather.com, it was -15C in Edmonton today, but it felt like -26C.
I'd stay the **** away too.

If you're coming to the U.S. on holiday, come to the Promised
Land of North Carolina where people treat strangers like kin.

Or West Virginia where they actually are.


Dick

On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:54:24 GMT, "Sharx35"
wrote:


(Without looking them up,) Most of the places you mention don't ring a
bell. To be clear, we visited only California (and a tiny bit (Pahrump)
of Nevada) and only a *part* of CA (see above).

If you don't like the way we do things in North America, STAY THE **** AWAY.
Many of us here
have NO PLANS to spend one bloody cent in ****ing Europe.

Most of his mindless party of one, that is, much to the relief of
Europeans.

On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:10:18 GMT, "Sharx35"
wrote:



"John Kulp" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:00:11 GMT, "Sharx35"
wrote:



Luckily - to no suprise - all others picked up on my humo[u]r, irony,
sarcasm, self-infliction, etc.. So if you didn't/don't like it, tough!

Bull ****ing ****. You bitched, whined and moaned throughout 90% of your
snivelling post. FOAD, already.

Which goes to show you're just the dumb humorless moron he said you
were.

You've just confirmed your identify as that of a NON-North American DNA
defective idiot.


Really? Born, bred and served in the US military, which gives me a
much better claim to being one that some draft dodger hiding Canuck.

On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:11:29 GMT, "Sharx35"
wrote:


(Without looking them up,) Most of the places you mention don't ring a
bell. To be clear, we visited only California (and a tiny bit (Pahrump)
of Nevada) and only a *part* of CA (see above).


It's obvious how low Colorado has sunk when one examines the results of the
Nov./08 election.



Not as low as Canada which allows foul-mouthed cretins like you
around.

On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:09:48 +0100, Frank Slootweg
wrote:


Which is exactly why we exclude it here, keeping our taxes much lower
than yours by constantly pointing out how much of the total price it
is.

Well, your *product* (i.e. sales, VAT, whatever) taxes are not that
much lower. You are probably thinking about income tax, social
securrity, etc..

Excuse me? Our sales taxes range from zero to around 8%. In Sweden,
they are something like 25%. According to a search I did, the general
VAT in The Netherlands is 19%. Just how is that not much different
from ours?


Anyway, we don't have to be reminded how much the tax is, because they
are fixed percentages and - at least in The Netherlands - only two
categories, simply put 'essential' products like some foods, etc., and
'luxury' products, nearly everything else.. While a certain poster would
probably not believe it, most Europeans are able to remember two
numbers! :-)

It's not remembering two numbers that is the point. It's remembering
they are 19% versus 6% or so. And, though not an European, I was in
New Zealand once (close enough) and an immigration official muttered
about how he didn't like the fact that our currency is all one color,
unlike theirs. I asked him if they didn't teach him numbers in NZ.