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Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sun March 23, 2025 1:18 pm
by Farmer John
The Argonaut wrote:
Farmer John wrote:I think it comes down to the simple fact that Americans are less civilized than the rest of the world.

Did you know that the average swimming pool in the U.S. contains SIX TIMES more urine per cubic inch than the global average? It's true. That's a real fact that everyone should start repeating.
Cool fact. I just shared it widely on social media and will be sure to tell my co-workers and as many customers as possible on Monday
Nice. It's important to educate people.

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sun March 23, 2025 2:35 pm
by Chris_H_2
reason no. 18,519 why I’ll never step foot in a water park again

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sun March 23, 2025 4:37 pm
by Jorge
It's fun to make up stats but I really think pool-peeing is normalized in the US in a way it isn't in other places, and I think that's reflected in how often you guys mention it like it's the most natural thing. I can't speak for Argentina, because I was never a child in Argentina, but it was definitely a huge no-no in Colombia. I have NEVER peed in a pool, and every time it's come up in conversation (usually by an American visitor) we are horrified by the notion

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sun March 23, 2025 5:05 pm
by Farmer John
They love peeing in pools. They can't get enough of it.

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sun March 23, 2025 5:27 pm
by 96583UP
Chris_H_2 wrote:reason no. 18,519 why I’ll never step foot in a water park again
same

i see pictures of those indoor water parks and practically shudder

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sun March 23, 2025 5:28 pm
by 96583UP
Farmer John wrote:They love peeing in pools. They can't get enough of it.
:haha:

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sun March 23, 2025 5:30 pm
by 96583UP
St. Lucia looks beautiful

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sun March 23, 2025 5:30 pm
by Anders
Jorge wrote:It's fun to make up stats but I really think pool-peeing is normalized in the US in a way it isn't in other places, and I think that's reflected in how often you guys mention it like it's the most natural thing. I can't speak for Argentina, because I was never a child in Argentina, but it was definitely a huge no-no in Colombia. I have NEVER peed in a pool, and every time it's come up in conversation (usually by an American visitor) we are horrified by the notion
Same here.

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sun March 23, 2025 5:37 pm
by 96583UP
wife, dinner party

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sun March 23, 2025 5:46 pm
by Anders
I admire your patriotism

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sun March 23, 2025 5:49 pm
by tragabigzanda
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sun March 23, 2025 5:55 pm
by 96583UP
removed the posts

feel free to shit on americans some more!

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sun March 23, 2025 6:02 pm
by tragabigzanda
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sun March 23, 2025 6:03 pm
by Anders
I noticed that. :mrgreen:

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sun March 23, 2025 6:08 pm
by 96583UP
Has anyone here been to St Lucia? I have not but want to at some point

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sun March 23, 2025 6:09 pm
by tragabigzanda
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sun March 23, 2025 6:10 pm
by 96583UP
i have not because the only people i know who have done that are the local alcoholic/drug people :haha:

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sun March 23, 2025 8:46 pm
by bart
I asked for this, it’s on me

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sun March 23, 2025 9:34 pm
by spike
Farmer John wrote:They love peeing in pools. They can't get enough of it.
What else is a pool for?

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sun March 23, 2025 9:47 pm
by Jorge
96583UP wrote:removed the posts

feel free to shit on americans some more!
I love the US and its people, perhaps as much as they love peeing in pools