The "Future": Perceived vs. Reality
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@scottalanmiller said:
Here is Spain people complain about people having to go to the English speaking world to find work and how awful it is because the English speaking world is full of drugs and drug culture so that the people who left Spain just fine come back as heroin and coke addicts. Spain sees anyplace that speaks English as a drug den and nothing else.
When I told them that beer was served without food (in Spain ordering a beer gets you a plate of food with it) they said "no wonder Americans are all alcoholics."
That's so funny, I had a similar conversation with my sister recently and a few years ago my youngest brother made a similar comment, and they're in Sarajevo. So it's certainly not a perception limited to Spain, and it's not really that inaccurate either. Though, Eastern Europe has a lot of junkies. I like junkies because they fall asleep, crack heads never sleep, leaving more time to steal my car stereo.
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I definitely did not get the impression that it was inaccurate or limited regionally.
What is funny is that there is a British commune down the mountain from us and it is insanely obvious that everyone is out of their minds 24x7 down there. The drug culture in the US and UK is so strong and so relatively absent in the rest of Europe where it is far more tolerated but less socially acceptable.
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@scottalanmiller said:
The drug culture in the US and UK is so strong and so relatively absent in the rest of Europe where it is far more tolerated but less socially acceptable.
Definitely true, I remember realising fairly early that it was the social norm in the US for teenagers to have a drug problem, and in general adults were getting high right after telling the kids to "Just say no." Another thing I've noticed is so many parents get high with their teenage children, which is beyond trashy, and the only time I can recall ever hearing about that happening in Eastern Europe was with this weird mother-daughter prostitute pair that lived near me.
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thanks for keeping roughly to the OP topic... er... yeah.
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@art_of_shred said:
thanks for keeping roughly to the OP topic... er... yeah.
They were prostitutes from the future! See, back on topic.
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@tonyshowoff said:
@scottalanmiller said:
The drug culture in the US and UK is so strong and so relatively absent in the rest of Europe where it is far more tolerated but less socially acceptable.
Definitely true, I remember realising fairly early that it was the social norm in the US for teenagers to have a drug problem, and in general adults were getting high right after telling the kids to "Just say no." Another thing I've noticed is so many parents get high with their teenage children, which is beyond trashy, and the only time I can recall ever hearing about that happening in Eastern Europe was with this weird mother-daughter prostitute pair that lived near me.
It is? I must be hanging out in the wrong (or maybe right) places...
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@art_of_shred said:
thanks for keeping roughly to the OP topic... er... yeah.
Yeah like every topic posted in the last month or so.
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@tonyshowoff said:
@scottalanmiller said:
The drug culture in the US and UK is so strong and so relatively absent in the rest of Europe where it is far more tolerated but less socially acceptable.
Definitely true, I remember realising fairly early that it was the social norm in the US for teenagers to have a drug problem, and in general adults were getting high right after telling the kids to "Just say no." Another thing I've noticed is so many parents get high with their teenage children, which is beyond trashy, and the only time I can recall ever hearing about that happening in Eastern Europe was with this weird mother-daughter prostitute pair that lived near me.
Yes, in Europe drugs are tolerated but not "cool". In the US they are not tolerated but very "cool". Polar opposites from what I have seen.
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@Dashrender said:
@tonyshowoff said:
@scottalanmiller said:
The drug culture in the US and UK is so strong and so relatively absent in the rest of Europe where it is far more tolerated but less socially acceptable.
Definitely true, I remember realising fairly early that it was the social norm in the US for teenagers to have a drug problem, and in general adults were getting high right after telling the kids to "Just say no." Another thing I've noticed is so many parents get high with their teenage children, which is beyond trashy, and the only time I can recall ever hearing about that happening in Eastern Europe was with this weird mother-daughter prostitute pair that lived near me.
It is? I must be hanging out in the wrong (or maybe right) places...
Maybe, I keep running into them. I even dated a coke head once (cocaine, not crack, specifically) until she pushed over my refrigerator. It was pretty amazing, she was tiny. I had so many bottles of Yoohoo in there, it was over after that.
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@Dashrender said:
@tonyshowoff said:
@scottalanmiller said:
The drug culture in the US and UK is so strong and so relatively absent in the rest of Europe where it is far more tolerated but less socially acceptable.
Definitely true, I remember realising fairly early that it was the social norm in the US for teenagers to have a drug problem, and in general adults were getting high right after telling the kids to "Just say no." Another thing I've noticed is so many parents get high with their teenage children, which is beyond trashy, and the only time I can recall ever hearing about that happening in Eastern Europe was with this weird mother-daughter prostitute pair that lived near me.
It is? I must be hanging out in the wrong (or maybe right) places...
You don't hang out with the mother daughter tag teams? You are really missing out!
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Too soon?
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@tonyshowoff said:
@Dashrender said:
@tonyshowoff said:
@scottalanmiller said:
The drug culture in the US and UK is so strong and so relatively absent in the rest of Europe where it is far more tolerated but less socially acceptable.
Definitely true, I remember realising fairly early that it was the social norm in the US for teenagers to have a drug problem, and in general adults were getting high right after telling the kids to "Just say no." Another thing I've noticed is so many parents get high with their teenage children, which is beyond trashy, and the only time I can recall ever hearing about that happening in Eastern Europe was with this weird mother-daughter prostitute pair that lived near me.
It is? I must be hanging out in the wrong (or maybe right) places...
Maybe, I keep running into them. I even dated a coke head once (cocaine, not crack, specifically) until she pushed over my refrigerator. It was pretty amazing, she was tiny. I had so many bottles of Yoohoo in there, it was over after that.
Well when you you take your work home with you...what do you expect?
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@StrongBad said:
You don't hang out with the mother daughter tag teams? You are really missing out!
You wouldn't be saying that if you saw them, not that they didn't sometimes try to harass me with "tempting" me with that sort of thing. They were so messed up looking, and just dirty, I know their apartment had a bath tub in it, I fixed their TV once.
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@tonyshowoff said:
Maybe, I keep running into them. I even dated a coke head once (cocaine, not crack, specifically) until she pushed over my refrigerator. It was pretty amazing, she was tiny. I had so many bottles of Yoohoo in there, it was over after that.
She spilled the Yahoo hoping it was Coke?
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I actually got propositioned three times at SpiceWorld London two weeks ago. Never had prostitutes actually come up to me before. I've seen them, I've had them kind of call but never come up and actively attempt a lewd conversation.
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@scottalanmiller said:
She spilled the Yahoo hoping it was Coke?
Hardy har har, the bottles broke when she pushed it over. I can tolerate spending my money on drugs for an attractive young woman's company, after all I am a pathetic millionaire, but don't dare waste my sugary drinks. I didn't get fat sitting around drinking water!
There's really no sarcasm or irony here.
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Lots of prostitution in Roanoke, va. I stay away from those areas.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Lots of prostitution in Roanoke, va
Not surprising. There are actually a lot everywhere. I used to work at a hotel where a lot of them lived and, in fact, the hotel shift manager was a lot lizard when things weren't busy.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Lots of prostitution in Roanoke, va. I stay away from those areas.
I notice that you updated that quickly.
