Nope, flag was a joke, and it was the USAF (actually, two of my friends/former "bandmates" (like they actually did much of anything) are in the "Chair Force" as one of them calls it. Oddly, he's the one now deployed to some unknown location I guess is either somewhere in Pakistan or Tajikistan.

Not that Vermont is very far from Canada, I can be in Montreal or Quebec City just as quickly as I can be in NYC or Boston.

__________________
Raskolnikov
Guitar Tricks Moderator
Careful what you wish for friend
I've been to Hell and now I'm back again
www.GuitarTricks.com - Home of Online Guitar Lessons

Okay, here I go, backing up stereotypes... I got my first gun, a Marlin .22 single shot "varmint gun" (low-velocity, slow-loading rifle) when I was ten. I think I went out to fire it once or twice.

Nah, see, her family knew me fairly well and if she would have said that I raped her they would have been like "uh, no..." And, as has been noted, surprisingly, there are parts of America where there are fewer guns than Bin Laden's per square mile, Cambridge being one of those cities.

Out on the western part of the US, there are more guns, and I'm from the West Coast. It's not like the world media portrays it, okay, the world media is a bunch of blithering idiots. You've got Al Jazeera saying it was the JEWS that are behind everything wrong in the world, the British tabloids who are always pertaining everything to Prince William, the Japanese media which is basically just a laughing stock of bad cartoons, and the American media, which is a bunch of "aw, let's hug" crap.
When I was in England, there was a BBC-made show about a small town in New Mexico on that I was watching with a group of Scottish rugby players, and dear God! All the show was was crap like "I'm a hard drivun trucker, so you best be watchin' out!" followed by gunfire and then a bunch of people at a bar like "yup." It's about as American as a guy with a tweed jacket with a magnifying glass going up to a nurse and looking at her as she's bending over and saying "BUTTOCKS" is British.

If you come over here and stay in a large city everyone's going to basically take the "big deal" attitude toward you; out in a smaller city or town, you'd get people asking you what it was like in the UK, if it rains a ton, if you've met the Queen, etc.

It's funny how so much of the world likes to make fun of the US for being the nation who created such devices as the microwave, power windows, the remote control and other implements of simplicity and call us lazy, close-minded and tear into us about being prejuduced... but every car out of Europe and Japan has those powwer options, everyone loves the microwave, all TV's are shipped with remotes, and look at how everyone in the world knows so much about the US and how we're a bunch of inbred, bloodthirsty animals, even though they've never been here, and only know us through our TV shows (and most of the American TV shows on the air abroad are just jokes here).

But I personally would rather live in the UK than here, I enjoyed it immensely.

__________________
more from the self-proclaimed king of long-winded posts
Fox Magic Jiron - Always with us
now with more long-wind power: http://www.livejournal.com/users/tristan_s/

I lived in scotland for a few years, and the poeple way up north are really nice... the problem is, you dont really relize how depressing it is to such dull weather... hmmm... I think our steroe type of americans not being very sharp (which isnt true after having talked to poeple here), is becuase of your tv, it works on the principal of more vewiers the better, so alot of the intelligent gags and parts are taken out, and dumed down.. except for the old simpsons and futurerama, which I find quite funny...The harry potter film, over there they changed it from philosipher's to sourcerer's stone.... I mean that's pretty insulting, I mean why dont they just go the whole way cahnge the name to BURGER, or Fries, or Milkshake... lol...
(oh by the way, I watch aljazeera in arabic, and it's not anti-semetic, It's very honest, it get alot of bad press becuase everyone has their own adjenda and the truth tends to get in the way, I mean there are a lot of BS translations about, and I'm pretty sure it's delibrate... there are some that are though)...

ED: I completely agree with you about popular American TV. I avoid it like the plague. All those so-called sitcoms and comedies (I use that word very loosely because most shows aren't in the least bit funny to an intelligent audience) are so inane and far from everyday reality that they're insulting. They broadcast to the world the message that all Americans are basically uncooth morons.

. . . not the message we necessarily want to be sending.

Just a point of interest- all military weapons designed for use by an individual are sold to the general public. That means that a psycopath with $ can get a 50 caliber sniper rifle with a 3 mile range any time he wants.

__________________
Fight the future.
http://www.nofx.com/forum/avatars/fool.gif

that's the kind of thing i'm talkin about... over here, the worst thing you could get legally is a croos bow.... but, really, I like americans... they do have their bad habits, but they're sooo much more positive (sometimes in a lovely naive way), and they dont talk down to you, and their multicultural society goes un-noticed... It's hard to explain... I'm orignally an arab, so I'm coloured... over here I'm aware of that, I dont get any shtik, but I'm aware (oh dont get me wrong, poeple here are great, and I've made great freinds)... in the US, it's nothing (well, in most places... I'm not talking about them there weird southern places)... So it does have it's major good points ... Plus everything is soooo much cheaper over there, I mean pedals that would cst $140 (£100) would start at £140!... any way, better go and something constructive....

I noticed that too when I was over there, that basically everyone switches around the dollar symbol with the pound symbol and leaves the numbers the same. So if you go to a McDonald's in Stratford and get a #4, it'll cost you 4.95 pounds, and in the US it'd be $4.95... not fair, as that adds to about like $8.50... and it's a nasty-ass McDonald's burger no matter where it's made.

The one thing I didn't like about the UK were freakin' tourists... okay, so I was one two, but I was a tourist at street level, I wasn't like all those French and Russian people who seemed to be everywhere who tried to haggle down the cost of a Cadbury bar ("in America, you know, I could get this for..., this is facist, I will not buy this unless you lower it from 50p to 45p").

I thought it was funny how when I went to the Safeway in Stratford (imagine, a Safeway in Stratford, England, but not in Boston, MA) and saw prodicts called stuff like "American Fast Food Diner" brand frozen dinners, every candy bar had a little hing on it that said "AMERICA'S #1 FAVOURITE!" and the "Where's Waldo?" Spaghetti-o's were "Where's Waldorf?" There were these really good chips I got called Royster's, and on the back of the bag there was this long thing bout how they've been a hugely popular part of American food culture since the 50's, and I haven't seen them before or since. God damn it, now I'm getting all sentimental...

__________________
more from the self-proclaimed king of long-winded posts
Fox Magic Jiron - Always with us
now with more long-wind power: http://www.livejournal.com/users/tristan_s/