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I love wine, though I wouldn't describe the taste as bitter. Champagne? Oh lawdy, I can and have downed a bottle of the stuff in a single night. And mimosas? Pure ecstasy. However, as much as I love wine my heart will always belong to Rolling Rock.
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Actually thats another problem, not being able to drink in a bar until Im 21, plus I hear your pretty strict over in the states. If memory serves me correctly you don't mess with the Arizona State Police.
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Here in Kentucky we don't really care. As long as you aren't caught...

That, and the age of consent is sixteen, so you're more likely to get laid here than you are over in the west.
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Actually thats another problem, not being able to drink in a bar until Im 21, plus I hear your pretty strict over in the states. If memory serves me correctly you don't mess with the Arizona State Police.
Just go to New Orleans during Mardi Gras. There's no drinking age during that since it can't be enforced, all the free plastic beads you'll ever want or need, and topless women. I guess you could go to the one in Mobile, Alabama, but it's not nearly as good.

And we're not that strict. Just like you said, don't mess with the police. Literally, just stay out of their way and they won't bother you at all. Most of them are generally nice people just there to help, but there are a lot of assholes.
We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar.

"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming

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I just remember being harassed by some dumbfuck cop for being British, constantly pestering us as to why english policemen aren't real policemen since they don't get guns.

Where I live the drinking age is 18 and we have pubs, your american bars just aren't the same.
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Yeah, I think waiting until your 21 to legally intoxicated yourself is ridiculous, a 20 year old American can join the US army but he can't be entrusted to drink beer.
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it almost look like they needed one more absurd law thansk to which they would make themselves even more ridiculous D:

oh I'm so eurocentric damnit
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... I remember for my first 3 years in the States all the girls loved my accent cuz they thought I was Irish, cuz there's no such thing as White Jamaicans :p I remember how their faces used to change when I'd tell them. Then of course English/Kiwi girls told me my American accent was hot. I think as far as global languages are concerned, your always going to get some kind of attention for your "accent" as long as the standard language is natively spoken in more than one country. I remember the way girls in Jamaica liked the Trini boys or the guys from Belize, but their favorites were Americans.

And Parasky, the dialects of English get pretty diverse as you move around the country. I think you're probably just used to the standardized dialects they try to use on television so everyone can understand. Cumbrian and Yorkshire I think are the hardest. Cumbrians say "thew" in place of "you", and if I had a dime for every time I heard "Arz a garn" up there... Plus a lot of people in Yorkshire, especially the older generation have a very strange sort of intonation to how they speak that makes them EXTREMELY difficult to understand if your ears aren't trained to it. It's almost like they only actually speak during the middle of the sentence and mumble at the beginning and end.

American dialects do typically go East-West, but then so do English dialects, it's just that the North-South differences are the strongest on our eastern seaboard. You guys should hear these locals in Hawai'i talking their pidgin...

And I know what you mean dial about the cops here, but I think the cops in most Western countries are starting to get waaay out of control. And yes there's the bit about the drinking laws, which are simply preposterous. I'm going back to Utah for the summer to work and my friend had lined me up a job as a server at Olive Garden, only to find out that I didn't qualify cuz I'm 6 months too young. Because I'm going to mature soooooooo vastly in the next 6 months...

If you must live in the United States I can't suggest the West more. I HATE the East Coast and all of the Eastern States (no offense anybody here). Out West there is a very different, socially open and laid back mentality. People love to strike up random conversations with strangers and their not too reserved either, meaning you can get to know someone very well in a single conversation. It's very nice. But be choosy with your bigger cities. Southern California outside San Diego mostly sucks monkey balls, but cities like Seattle, Bellingham, Portland, Boise, Bakersfield (CA), Salt Lake City, Phoenix (fuck that heat though) are all pretty good. The whole Puget Sound area actually north of Tacoma is nice... mostly.
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I just remember being harassed by some dumbfuck cop for being British, constantly pestering us as to why english policemen aren't real policemen since they don't get guns.

Where I live the drinking age is 18 and we have pubs, your american bars just aren't the same.
That can happen. Police officers in America are a lot of times the exact same kind of people who grow up to become criminals. It's just that rather than exert power over others through crime, they've found that they can become a police officer and actually get praise and respect for treating others like complete shit. And they'll get away with it, because the people they do it to are criminals and few people here actually sympathize with society's downtrodden.

The best thing to do with American police is simply ignore them. If they demand you stop, all you do is ask if you're being detained and if so on what charges. Contrary to popular belief American police won't actually trump up charges or plant things on you just to arrest you. Doing that lands them automatically in prison, and they do not pass go and collect $200. And police officers usually don't last long in prisons.
We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar.

"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming

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Sounds like medieval knights too my, except without the going to war part.
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Oh they go to war, they're at war with drugs, lamna. Didn't you know that?
We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar.

"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming

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I mean they don't go have a big fight with the RCMP and take some of them hostage, and burn the odd village.
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