Having never been there, how do you know you wouldn't like to go there?
America is MASSIVE - people get snooty about "Oh half of them don't have passports" - they don't NEED passports. The place is like melding Norway through Yurp to Africa, and equally varied. It's great.

Like everywhere it has it's share of wankers and great people. The service industry knocks the British into a cocked hat, and also they have Winona Ryder so that wins everything.

Altalt: depends. My dad has a full beard, because when he was in his 20s he was hitchhiking around Europe and it was too much hassle to shave. He firmly believes that either one has a beard - in order to avoid shaving - or one doesn't. Shaving AND having a beard is ridiculous. Thus he thoroughly enjoyed watching me go through my 20s.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 9:56, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

If we had Spanish weather in Cornwall, how many Brits would bother with a passport?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 9:57, Reply)

Precisely this.
Snootiness about America I encounter I find really annoying, not to mention ignorant.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 10:00, Reply)

Not being snooty really, there are many other places I'd like to visit.
Mate lived in Guatemala, he enjoyed that.
(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 10:02, Reply)

It's lazy and wholly unwarranted snobbery which tells you far more negative stuff about the wanker saying it than about Americans

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 10:03, Reply)

Or possibly some people do not like some of the countries they have been to as much as others.

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 6 Aug 2013, 10:05, Reply)

Talking specifically about the oft-touted 'passports' judgement here.
It's a nonsense argument.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 10:10, Reply)

Yes, this is a bit silly
I'd probably not have one now if you didn't need it for Europe.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 6 Aug 2013, 10:24, Reply)

isn't it also because americans get hardly any holiday, compared to us, for example?
if you only get 10 days a year, you're perhaps less likely to go abroad, as you won't want to spend 2 of them on an aeroplane.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 10:28, Reply)

That's true
and is also the reason why you seem them haring around Europe at 1000 miles an hour completing some exhausting checklist of photo ops, the poor sods.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 10:30, Reply)

Er but Americans are ALL shit
OK HTH
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 10:06, Reply)

Who ever said I'd never been there? I have.
there are also plenty of places I haven't been I would not like to go, because we have things called 'Television' and 'The Internet' that tell you about places without you having to go there. limited I grant you but it makes more sense that visiting every corner of the globe just so you can decide which bits you like.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 6 Aug 2013, 10:02, Reply)

I too make my assessments of vast countries based on fictional entertainment set in them.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 10:05, Reply)

this is not what I said, now is it?

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 6 Aug 2013, 10:05, Reply)

That Mordor looks canny
I may also visit Battered's home town of The Shire
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 10:06, Reply)

OK - where have you been?
Writing off an entire continent - especially one that size - is pretty difficult.

It's one thing saying "Midsomer Norton is shit", it's another saying "I wouldn't like to go to Somerset."
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 10:09, Reply)

I think you are being a little overly defensive here old chap
I said " I can think of few places I'd less like to go to than America" and I think you read this as "I hate america, all Americans are thick fat and stupid and I'd like the whole continent to fall into the sea" and then added "I've never been there or met an american and am basing all this of watching TV shows".

I'm just not that interested, this may also be because there are a whole long list of European places I'd like to visit and quite a few non-Europe + non-america places too. Now granted I'm not being overly positive about the place and I'm sure they have some lovely bits, but I reserve the right to not be interested in going there with out justifying myself to your silly over-blown internet anger.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 6 Aug 2013, 10:16, Reply)

You horrible racist.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 10:21, Reply)

That's libellous.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 10:29, Reply)

I think you may want to reconsider that post
and aim it at Tangles.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 6 Aug 2013, 10:30, Reply)

Fair enough, though the phrasing "I can think of few places I'd less like to go than" needs work.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 10:33, Reply)

it's factually accurate
and further I care not.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 6 Aug 2013, 10:42, Reply)