No, they shouldnt have to learn anything about your culture or language. You should change all forms and signs to include their language.
That seems to be how it is in the US these days...
IN the past, the US used to be "the great melting pot".....today, however, well.....I"m starting to feel great pressure to start learning Spanish out of necessity.
Self defense is a fictional purpose because nowhere is life really that dangerous. You do not live in the wild west, we have police services.
I dunno where you live...but there are things in most of the country, even NICE neighborhoods call home invasions, or just people breaking in while you are home.
The cops are NOT going to be saving you from that....all they can do, is try to gather evidence at the crime scene. If you are not armed, they may be trying to then investigate who broke in and killed you or your family.
Not to mention, it is well established law that the police are NOT legally obligated to protect you from crime or prevent it from happening to you.
If you don't want to have them, good...but you should not have say if I have them. I'm a responsible citizen and obey the laws.
I enjoy taking my guns to the range for target shooting, I'm hoping to start competing in plate shooting matches...and I like going out to friends' houses where they have land outside city limits and we just shoot the hell out of things (2L sodas, watermelons, metal trashcans, etc...stuff that blows up is fun).
Shot guns are for hunting, not assault rifles,
Please get it straight...the general citizenry of the US do NOT have ready access to "Assault Weapons".
The Assault rifle is one that is fully automatic. You pull the trigger with select fire enabled, and as long as you hold that trigger, it will continue to automatically fire until you release the trigger or run out of ammo.
The common AR-15 is not an assault weapon. It is ONLY a semi-automatic rifle. You pull the trigger it fires once. It fires once only for each actuation of the trigger. Period.
The AR-15 "looks" scary, but there is really nothing about it different than any other of the MANY semi-automatic rifles on the market. Many of them, if you didn't know guns...you would think were simple "hunting rifles"...wood stocks, not black....but they shoot the same ammo as the common AR, and are semi-automatic..firing the same rate as the AR-15, and you use magazines in them just like the AR.
There are MANY other semi-auto rifles that shoot MUCH more powerful ammo than the AR. And many of those don't look scary, but are much more lethal, yet you don't have people trying to ban them.
The AR is just the target, because it is the single most popular rifle in the US. It is enjoyed, because it is modular...you can take parts off, or build your own, if you want high end barrels, scopes, straps, attachments like lights, etc. But none of that stuff changes the fact it fires once for each actuation of the trigger.
And I believe that there were maybe 400 rifle killings in the US last time study was done for a year....the vast majority of gun killings (crime) in the use are done with handguns...semi-automatic handguns.
And most of these are gang members shooting each other.
Yet, where is the push for banning those?
Guns are just tools, they have many legal uses and do not kill people of their own volitions.
You can eat steak rare, but you should never eat ground beef rare: It's not at all safe, when you grind meat, exterior parts of meat covered in bacteria get pushed to the inside and cooking rare doesn't kill them off. If anyone sold bleeding hamburgers that were real meat- I would worry.
It is perfectly safe if you are grinding your own beef from whole cuts of beef.
that way, you control the conditions, no fillers, and no mixing of meats for God knows where and what quality.
Tastier and more tender too!!
Definitely worth buying a quality, heavy duty grinder for.
Makes for great sausage making too...and fun for a weekend project.
I don't know if there are official rules about what minimum area/number of states would qualify a chain as "national", but at 13 states White Castle sounds pretty regional to me. As someone who grew up on the west coast i'd never even heard of them until i went to college and made some friends from the east coast.
In the southeast of the US, we have Krystals....never tried a White Castle, but I'm guessing they're about the same thing..."rectum rockets", "gut bombs"....but great at 3am in the morning!!
Beat the kid with a belt, and make him/her chop wood for a week. that should solve it.
Trouble is...in many places in the US, you do that now (something that used to be the norm not that long ago) and you'll soon have child protective services removing your children and find the police charging you with abuse/assautl/battery and you'll be in jail....all just because you didn't "spare the rod"....
Of course there is a difference between 'beating' and corporal punishment, but in much of society today, they've outlawed even proper corporal punishment.
I know myself and most of my peers grew up with the occasional ass whupping, and I firmly believe it helped us.
Kids run wild today because often parents are hampered from dealing out proper punishment when it is called for.
That's a great argument - can we apply it to gun rights? Lets see, there are 300 million guns in America, and several thousand (give or take) are used in crimes during the year - so why infringe everyone's rights to own a gun because of a few bad apples?
Well, to give a car analogy....
When someone kills 1 or more people with a car...you don't blame the car or try to ban them, you know?
Guns like cars are just tools, plain and simple.
They don't kill people on their own...it takes a person to misuse a car, gun, knife, etc to kill another person.
This is the era of the Kardashians. Having a large ass is way, way, waaaaaaaay more acceptable among women
Well, like you said fetishized by SOME men, but ugh...I think she looks like a freak with that thing, and I dare say most normal men don't like it ultra-wide.
But everyone has their preferences.
I think there is a problem with 'normalizing' being overweight for women and men. It is not healthy and we already have a problem with obesity.
If you are overweight, it should be pointed out, so that a person can get help and try to get to a more healthy weight.
We've got enough of a load on the healthcare system as it is, and obesity and the associated spread of type II diabetes is going to bankrupt us in the future if we don't try to stop the health problem.
Of course, this also means I FULLY expect a new Tinder policy that requires every woman's profile to include a full body shot (to include whatever algorithmic hashes are necessary to disprove image manipulation), as well as a makeup-free selfie. There's ZERO reason we should allow the women to get away with misrepresentation.
To be fair....MOST women need a little makeup.
I wanna see how well they do it....when you take them out in public, you do want them to look their best you know.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or if you've really never travelled more than 500 km from your place of residence.
I"ve lived in several states here in the US, and have never encountered this type of thing, no.
I"m guessing since you used "km" as a measure of distance, you are not in/from the US, so, it isn't really a matter for you to argue in the first place now is it?
Wait...you mean stores where you live expect you to own and bring your own bags to the store each time you shop with them?
I've never heard of such a thing.
WTF do you live?
Wow..that's just weird.
I mean, here they usually ask you paper or plastic, but I"ve never seen a store that assumed YOU would provide your own bags to bring your grocery or other purchases home with....
Actually, it's just an example of the beauty of the United States.
You are a citizen of your state first, and then of the United States second.
This is how the US was designed, if you don't like what they're doing in a state, you are free to move to a different one, that has laws, taxation and regulations that you agree with....
One size does not fit all, and this is what is great about the US.
I didn't buy cars easily capable of going well over 100mph, to not occasionally 'air them out' when conditions around were safe to do so.
I don't need the govt. limiting me.
Geez, the nanny state is growing further and faster than ever....are people so scared for their lives these days that they are afraid to live a little and have some risk in their lives?
Bullshit. You can absolutely still joke about pretty much everything as long as it's actually funny. Have you seen Bill Burr or Louis CK? I mean at least before it turned out he was a giant creep, which isn't funny at all.
I never thought Louis CK was very funny at all, Burr has his moments.
But in general, I stand by my statement.
A Carlin or even a Pryor today would be crucified.
Heck, even Chappelle has caught some shit...and you hear more and more often, that comediennes will not go to college campuses any longer due to the riots and outrage that will shut them down.
And colleges used to be the hotbeds for letting anyone speak their minds, especially comic social commentary, but no longer....speech there is suppressed if you aren't in the main liberal, safe space groupthink.
And Lenny Bruce was ostracized. So the fuck what. It happens in all generations. This one is no different. Take off your rose colored glasses when looking at the past. It wasn't as great as you imagine. In fact, much worse.
Except in the case of free use of language and expression of concepts, whether as a joke, social commentary or as a belief.
Yes, Lenny Bruce was ostracized....but he was a groundbreaker, and later after him, others were able to go further and say MORE without those repercussions.
Today, you can't hardly say shit, for fear of a mass of victimhood, or calls of racist, classist, sexist or whatever new '-ist" you want to come up with.
Even if the labels don't come out onto you, you are shouted down before you can even say much of anything, or a riot will break out.
The thing is, speech, controversial speech is being suppressed in ways not seen SINCE the 50's and earlier.
We're going backwards with this today instead of forwards....on this front, we're losing ground.
Spot on. In today's victimhood culture any attempt at humor is extremely dangerous.
I recently went to a local stand up show and almost all performances were extremely bland (or about Trump), because joking about anything controversial is just too dangerous with SJW Stasi everywhere.
I feel the same way.
I wish we could bring back George Carlin and Richard Pryor.....
We could really use their humor, cynicism and the fact they weren't scared of saying anything...
I liked that Carlin,while fairly liberal, didn't hold punches on either side....I wish he'd been here through Obama and now Trump.
We NEED comics and 'stand up philosophers' to get up there, and make us laugh at our leaders and the screwy things going on in society, and not be afraid of saying things that are controversial.
I'm guessing it goes further than that...likely as not, they're afraid someone will do an April Fools joke that rubs someone the wrong way and be even slightly non PC.....
It's sad that almost everyone these days is looking to be a victim, and just waiting for an excuse to be offended and cause a ruckus.
It seems we just can't have fun things anymore....simple April Fools joke....jokes in general, and hell, you remember when office Xmas parties were fun and not only served booze, but were also "open bar"?
Its sad we just can't have nice things anymore....
Why don't they just make it easier....
Next time, choose the 2nd chick with bigger tits, so she can fit in the larger torso suit, and well hey, as a side benefit, the other male astronauts might enjoy the trip more, and hell....might generate more interest on earth for these missions, more television audience for these space walks.
This type of innovative thinking deserves an award!!!
Hmm, you know, I might just approach NASA with this idea, maybe it could be the basis of a Kickstarter program to bring more $$ and attention to NASA projects.
They seem to need all the help they can get, and innovative ideas like this just might help!!
Next time, choose the 2nd chick with bigger tits, so she can fit in the larger torso suit, and well hey, as a side benefit, the other male astronauts might enjoy the trip more, and hell....might generate more interest on earth for these missions, more television audience for these space walks.
Can't work in America. I can't speak to other countries.
It's not that it wouldn't be of benefit to the general population, but that's not a criteria anyone in any level of power will even consider as modestly important. What's important is continuing the war on drugs because it feeds the for profit prison system. And that for profit prison system needs a steady stream of non-violent inmates to keep running costs low and prove the necessity of every increased capacity.
Well, according to the ACLU: "...for-profit companies were responsible for approximately 7 percent of state prisoners and 18 percent of federal prisoners in 2015 (the most recent numbers currently available)".
While that seems to start being a little high on the Federal side, it doesn't seem to be really THAT high of a number that everyone seems to keep touting as a reason to keep funneling people into the prison system.
While I agree it could put pressure on the system to try to fund itself, it doesn't appear to be as much of a central problem to legalizing drugs as some would have you think.
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That seems to be how it is in the US these days...
IN the past, the US used to be "the great melting pot".....today, however, well.....I"m starting to feel great pressure to start learning Spanish out of necessity.
My larger question is.....what IS dubstep?
I dunno where you live...but there are things in most of the country, even NICE neighborhoods call home invasions, or just people breaking in while you are home.
The cops are NOT going to be saving you from that....all they can do, is try to gather evidence at the crime scene. If you are not armed, they may be trying to then investigate who broke in and killed you or your family.
Not to mention, it is well established law that the police are NOT legally obligated to protect you from crime or prevent it from happening to you.
If you don't want to have them, good...but you should not have say if I have them. I'm a responsible citizen and obey the laws.
I enjoy taking my guns to the range for target shooting, I'm hoping to start competing in plate shooting matches...and I like going out to friends' houses where they have land outside city limits and we just shoot the hell out of things (2L sodas, watermelons, metal trashcans, etc...stuff that blows up is fun).
Please get it straight...the general citizenry of the US do NOT have ready access to "Assault Weapons".
The Assault rifle is one that is fully automatic. You pull the trigger with select fire enabled, and as long as you hold that trigger, it will continue to automatically fire until you release the trigger or run out of ammo.
The common AR-15 is not an assault weapon. It is ONLY a semi-automatic rifle. You pull the trigger it fires once. It fires once only for each actuation of the trigger. Period.
The AR-15 "looks" scary, but there is really nothing about it different than any other of the MANY semi-automatic rifles on the market. Many of them, if you didn't know guns...you would think were simple "hunting rifles"...wood stocks, not black....but they shoot the same ammo as the common AR, and are semi-automatic..firing the same rate as the AR-15, and you use magazines in them just like the AR.
There are MANY other semi-auto rifles that shoot MUCH more powerful ammo than the AR. And many of those don't look scary, but are much more lethal, yet you don't have people trying to ban them.
The AR is just the target, because it is the single most popular rifle in the US. It is enjoyed, because it is modular...you can take parts off, or build your own, if you want high end barrels, scopes, straps, attachments like lights, etc. But none of that stuff changes the fact it fires once for each actuation of the trigger.
And I believe that there were maybe 400 rifle killings in the US last time study was done for a year....the vast majority of gun killings (crime) in the use are done with handguns...semi-automatic handguns.
And most of these are gang members shooting each other.
Yet, where is the push for banning those?
Guns are just tools, they have many legal uses and do not kill people of their own volitions.
It is perfectly safe if you are grinding your own beef from whole cuts of beef.
that way, you control the conditions, no fillers, and no mixing of meats for God knows where and what quality.
Tastier and more tender too!!
Definitely worth buying a quality, heavy duty grinder for.
Makes for great sausage making too...and fun for a weekend project.
LEM makes good, reasonably priced Meat Grinders ...
I'd have to go look at mine, but I think I have the .5HB or the .75HP, and it is more than powerful enough.
In the southeast of the US, we have Krystals....never tried a White Castle, but I'm guessing they're about the same thing..."rectum rockets", "gut bombs"....but great at 3am in the morning!!
Trouble is...in many places in the US, you do that now (something that used to be the norm not that long ago) and you'll soon have child protective services removing your children and find the police charging you with abuse/assautl/battery and you'll be in jail....all just because you didn't "spare the rod"....
Of course there is a difference between 'beating' and corporal punishment, but in much of society today, they've outlawed even proper corporal punishment.
I know myself and most of my peers grew up with the occasional ass whupping, and I firmly believe it helped us.
Kids run wild today because often parents are hampered from dealing out proper punishment when it is called for.
Well, to give a car analogy....
When someone kills 1 or more people with a car...you don't blame the car or try to ban them, you know?
Guns like cars are just tools, plain and simple.
They don't kill people on their own...it takes a person to misuse a car, gun, knife, etc to kill another person.
Well, I guess being in the shape of a large sphere does qualify in some way as having a curve somewhere.....maybe just one BIG continuous curve?
Well, like you said fetishized by SOME men, but ugh...I think she looks like a freak with that thing, and I dare say most normal men don't like it ultra-wide.
But everyone has their preferences.
I think there is a problem with 'normalizing' being overweight for women and men. It is not healthy and we already have a problem with obesity.
If you are overweight, it should be pointed out, so that a person can get help and try to get to a more healthy weight.
We've got enough of a load on the healthcare system as it is, and obesity and the associated spread of type II diabetes is going to bankrupt us in the future if we don't try to stop the health problem.
To be fair....MOST women need a little makeup.
I wanna see how well they do it....when you take them out in public, you do want them to look their best you know.
Let's be fair....and require women to verify their current WEIGHT, lets get an honest measure of how fat they are, and how big their ass is.
Also, can we get a truthful metric on how firm or saggy their tits are?
That would save a LOT of headaches and awkward moments ahead of time on the guys' side.
I"ve lived in several states here in the US, and have never encountered this type of thing, no.
I"m guessing since you used "km" as a measure of distance, you are not in/from the US, so, it isn't really a matter for you to argue in the first place now is it?
Wait...you mean stores where you live expect you to own and bring your own bags to the store each time you shop with them?
I've never heard of such a thing.
WTF do you live?
Wow..that's just weird.
I mean, here they usually ask you paper or plastic, but I"ve never seen a store that assumed YOU would provide your own bags to bring your grocery or other purchases home with....
You are a citizen of your state first, and then of the United States second.
This is how the US was designed, if you don't like what they're doing in a state, you are free to move to a different one, that has laws, taxation and regulations that you agree with....
One size does not fit all, and this is what is great about the US.
Sadly, I would have to guess if you used this saying around anyone much under the age of 50yrs, their first response would be...
"What's a station wagon?"
It is risk taking behavior, that has gotten the modern world to the advanced state it is in today.
Trying to always stay safe, stifles progress and innovation.
Not to mention, that life is boring without any risk.
I don't need the govt. limiting me.
Geez, the nanny state is growing further and faster than ever....are people so scared for their lives these days that they are afraid to live a little and have some risk in their lives?
I never thought Louis CK was very funny at all, Burr has his moments.
But in general, I stand by my statement.
A Carlin or even a Pryor today would be crucified.
Heck, even Chappelle has caught some shit...and you hear more and more often, that comediennes will not go to college campuses any longer due to the riots and outrage that will shut them down.
And colleges used to be the hotbeds for letting anyone speak their minds, especially comic social commentary, but no longer....speech there is suppressed if you aren't in the main liberal, safe space groupthink.
Except in the case of free use of language and expression of concepts, whether as a joke, social commentary or as a belief.
Yes, Lenny Bruce was ostracized....but he was a groundbreaker, and later after him, others were able to go further and say MORE without those repercussions.
Today, you can't hardly say shit, for fear of a mass of victimhood, or calls of racist, classist, sexist or whatever new '-ist" you want to come up with.
Even if the labels don't come out onto you, you are shouted down before you can even say much of anything, or a riot will break out.
The thing is, speech, controversial speech is being suppressed in ways not seen SINCE the 50's and earlier.
We're going backwards with this today instead of forwards....on this front, we're losing ground.
I feel the same way.
I wish we could bring back George Carlin and Richard Pryor.....
We could really use their humor, cynicism and the fact they weren't scared of saying anything...
I liked that Carlin,while fairly liberal, didn't hold punches on either side....I wish he'd been here through Obama and now Trump.
We NEED comics and 'stand up philosophers' to get up there, and make us laugh at our leaders and the screwy things going on in society, and not be afraid of saying things that are controversial.
It's sad that almost everyone these days is looking to be a victim, and just waiting for an excuse to be offended and cause a ruckus.
It seems we just can't have fun things anymore....simple April Fools joke....jokes in general, and hell, you remember when office Xmas parties were fun and not only served booze, but were also "open bar"?
Its sad we just can't have nice things anymore....
The world is less fun for it all too....
Hmm, you know, I might just approach NASA with this idea, maybe it could be the basis of a Kickstarter program to bring more $$ and attention to NASA projects.
They seem to need all the help they can get, and innovative ideas like this just might help!!
Next time, choose the 2nd chick with bigger tits, so she can fit in the larger torso suit, and well hey, as a side benefit, the other male astronauts might enjoy the trip more, and hell....might generate more interest on earth for these missions, more television audience for these space walks.
You might look at Portugal, as that they pretty much legalized/decriminalized all drugs...and they have actually had a positive result.
I"m surprised more countries don't start looking at their model.
Well, according to the ACLU: "...for-profit companies were responsible for approximately 7 percent of state prisoners and 18 percent of federal prisoners in 2015 (the most recent numbers currently available)".
While that seems to start being a little high on the Federal side, it doesn't seem to be really THAT high of a number that everyone seems to keep touting as a reason to keep funneling people into the prison system.
While I agree it could put pressure on the system to try to fund itself, it doesn't appear to be as much of a central problem to legalizing drugs as some would have you think.