Let's list the reasons and ways that American's are extra special and should be treated as such.

PowstagramSo I guess the companies are more important than giving healthcare to those who need it but cannot afford it? Right then

I live in the UK, yeah the NHS isn't run great but at least if I get some horrific illness I don't have to pay for my right to healthcare, at least i don't have to pay because I contracted an illness that wasn't my fucking fault

Why does America deny healthcare to the poor? Are they lesser people simply because they have less money? Fuck I'm pissed off i'm gonna stop

DingoSeanPeople need to learn to put forks in their hair and vegemite behind their ears...

Better keep away from those yaramayahoos too..

UglyboyOkay, so you're pretty smart. But you wouldn't believe how many Americans believe we have drop bears.

pussyfooterJust saying, if I had a dollar for every person who's said 'omg living in Canada would be so much better than the usa' I'd be rich af

TheStamosI'm in a third world country right now. If you drink the water you'll get sick. There is raw sewage coming out of manholes and no one gives a fuck. In fact , I've seen about 7 missing manholes in the streets just in this one town.There are no trash Cans, the ocean and beaches have plastic and Styrofoam all over them, though there are many perfect Beaches here too:) Haven't seen or heard. a single ambulance or firetruck in 34 days.No emissions laws =shit air quality in town. Retail stores sell shit Chinese BS. people live in cinder block Buildings with no windows,only shutters. Kids sell shit out of plastic bags while to you while you eat in restraunts. Stray,though very friendly and lovable, wild dogs roam everywhere with limps and scars and horrible injuries....no one gives a fuck. They find out you speak English here they try to fuuuuuuck you out of money. 7 dollars for a fucking coconut if your a nice trusting American and don't know why your monopoly pesos are really worth. Anyone of you little bit he's think you really hate American go take a peak of how the Majority of the world lives and then see if you keep Bitching. THEY CAN'T AFFORD WINDOWS AND I HAVE A $700 MINI COMPUTER IN MY POCKET. If you haven't felt that, you don't know a single fucking thing about what you little skier snobs have.
Having said that, aside from a few of my own Bitchy American things that I see as neglect or irregular these people are generally happy and wonderful helpful people.The Dominican Republic is an interesting place.

Lord_Byronfor all your bitching, if you really gave as much of a fuck as you pretend to, you'd sell that $700 dollar mini phone and buy some windows. Don't tell me to walk in their shoes when you haven't either.

Lord_Byronfor all your bitching, if you really gave as much of a fuck as you pretend to, you'd sell that $700 dollar mini phone and buy some windows. Don't tell me to walk in their shoes when you haven't either.

FunkadelicWell this thread title is the result of the American education system.

TheStamosThanks Sean, I don't understand how selling the best work tool I have to make an improvement in one place is gonna help anyone. I can't suffer enough to cure the suffering of the world, though I can share my experience and maybe turn on a bulb or 2.

TheStamosThanks Sean, I don't understand how selling the best work tool I have to make an improvement in one place is gonna help anyone. I can't suffer enough to cure the suffering of the world, though I can share my experience and maybe turn on a bulb or 2.

MCsugarcatYou don't think that you'd be helping someone if you gave them your phone?


Im sure the poor person would remember you for it and probably want to skype/keep in touch.



Im in the other persons camp agreeing that you should be giving that shit away if you are going to preach to a ski forum.


I personally empathize for the poor both abroad and all ranges of poor people domestically in our consumer based society (even what you'd call spoiled rich middle class kids on NS who despite being born white in the USA might actually have high bills/low paying jobs and noone helping them) however unlike you I don't treat visiting impoverished places like riding roller coasters like you. Give them your phone or shut the fuck up and apologize to NS for being a hypocrite.

TheStamosReal poor people can't skype,Real poor people dont have address's .There is oppurtunity in the US for EVERYONE. Bums choose there path just like lawyers choose there path. NO clue kids, you all have no clue.

cobra_commanderMost of urban Africa has access to cell service with data. It may not be LTE, or even 3G, but you would be surprised by the number of internet capable phones in the slum towns surrounding Cape Town, Jo-berg, Freetown, Narobi, Lagos, Mogadishu, etc.

Africa needs better roads before it needs anything else right now. a set of fucking windows ain't gonna change the fucking world.

The same is true for most of the underdeveloped and developing world. Small tablet sized computers are even relatively common in North Korea. They don't exactly have access to the googles, but they do have them.

DingoSeanBecause our car industry is alive, while the British car industry is fully dead. (not that the American Car Industry is doing as well as industries in Germany and Japan - countries we fucking obliterated WTF!!)


yay for government bailouts!

and the british auto industry is fully dead?
im not too sure where you got that idea from?

sewardBecause our car industry is alive, while the British car industry is fully dead. (not that the American Car Industry is doing as well as industries in Germany and Japan - countries we fucking obliterated WTF!!)


yay for government bailouts!

and the british auto industry is fully dead?
im not too sure where you got that idea from?

butterslut.we beat all the wars

daOysterCanada might not go an pick wars, but they seem to always be right on our backs in any western war we get into atleast.

TheStamosI'm in a third world country right now. If you drink the water you'll get sick. There is raw sewage coming out of manholes and no one gives a fuck. In fact , I've seen about 7 missing manholes in the streets just in this one town.There are no trash Cans, the ocean and beaches have plastic and Styrofoam all over them, though there are many perfect Beaches here too:) Haven't seen or heard. a single ambulance or firetruck in 34 days.No emissions laws =shit air quality in town. Retail stores sell shit Chinese BS. people live in cinder block Buildings with no windows,only shutters. Kids sell shit out of plastic bags while to you while you eat in restraunts. Stray,though very friendly and lovable, wild dogs roam everywhere with limps and scars and horrible injuries....no one gives a fuck. They find out you speak English here they try to fuuuuuuck you out of money. 7 dollars for a fucking coconut if your a nice trusting American and don't know why your monopoly pesos are really worth. Anyone of you little bit he's think you really hate American go take a peak of how the Majority of the world lives and then see if you keep Bitching. THEY CAN'T AFFORD WINDOWS AND I HAVE A $700 MINI COMPUTER IN MY POCKET. If you haven't felt that, you don't know a single fucking thing about what you little skier snobs have.
Having said that, aside from a few of my own Bitchy American things that I see as neglect or irregular these people are generally happy and wonderful helpful people.The Dominican Republic is an interesting place.

Lord_Byronthis point can't be emphasized enough.

WE'RE PUREBRED WINNERS

elindeIf you're really this shocked by seeing this sort of thing in the DR, I suggest you see more of the world. And if you're trying to not get fucked over, don't act like a tourist and buy a coconut. Take it from a tree and split it yourself for free. Be a traveler and live amongst these people and their culture, rather than be a tourist and simply observe and then relay it on a ski website.


P.S. Sorry if I misjudged you and you're a decent guy, that comment was just a little irritating.

DingoSeanPretty sure Nick wasn't telling you to give up what you've got, but to appreciate what you have and stop bitching - because you could be one of those kids trying to sell coconuts to foreigners to put food on your family's table at night rather than figuring out what pair of 500$ pow skis to buy for next season.

DingoSeanName a company that doesn't only make sports cars (Noble or Aston Martin) that isn't owned mostly by American or German interests? I mean, you mention bailouts... British Leyland pretty much tanked itself via bailouts. they lost money on every single Mini Cooper ever made.
Mini is BMW.
MG is Chinese.
Rover is dead.
Jaguar is Indian.
Austin is Dead.
Morris is Dead.
Land Rover is Indian.
Triumph is dead and owned by BMW

Even Leyland Trucks/Tractors are Indian...

I'd call that pretty god damn dead...

sewardso if a company merges or is purchased by a foreign "competitor" it is "Dead"...
gotcha.

butterslut.we beat all the wars

louie.miragsexcept the war against drugs and the war against poverty

butterslut.we beat all the wars

UglyboyExcept that time you tried to take over Canada and got your arse kicked... And many others

TheStamosI'm in a third world country right now. If you drink the water you'll get sick. There is raw sewage coming out of manholes and no one gives a fuck. In fact , I've seen about 7 missing manholes in the streets just in this one town.There are no trash Cans, the ocean and beaches have plastic and Styrofoam all over them, though there are many perfect Beaches here too:) Haven't seen or heard. a single ambulance or firetruck in 34 days.No emissions laws =shit air quality in town. Retail stores sell shit Chinese BS. people live in cinder block Buildings with no windows,only shutters. Kids sell shit out of plastic bags while to you while you eat in restraunts. Stray,though very friendly and lovable, wild dogs roam everywhere with limps and scars and horrible injuries....no one gives a fuck. They find out you speak English here they try to fuuuuuuck you out of money. 7 dollars for a fucking coconut if your a nice trusting American and don't know why your monopoly pesos are really worth. Anyone of you little bit he's think you really hate American go take a peak of how the Majority of the world lives and then see if you keep Bitching. THEY CAN'T AFFORD WINDOWS AND I HAVE A $700 MINI COMPUTER IN MY POCKET. If you haven't felt that, you don't know a single fucking thing about what you little skier snobs have.
Having said that, aside from a few of my own Bitchy American things that I see as neglect or irregular these people are generally happy and wonderful helpful people.The Dominican Republic is an interesting place.

JAHpowBruh you should've seen Haiti. I was there two years ago on a missions trip

louie.miragsIs that when you go to a third world country and try to convince the most vulnerable people out there that Jesus is the answer?

SFByeah man those evil christians going out to convert those vulnerable people, not like they are giving aid to those people and building houses. man i hate those evil christians.

louie.miragsHate is a strong word mannnnnnnnn


"Here is some clean water and some rice, but first you must listen to why Jesus can supply you with rice and water for eternity" - Joseph Smith

TheStamosApology accepted. It's funny how some you guys read into that when the only person in addressed it to was "little skier snobs" I guess that how some of you identify yourselves. In less words I could have summed it up as " Appreciate what you have because you are very lucky to be American or Canadian citizens" there are allot of other potential less desirable places your ugly mom could have shit you out of her stinky pussy.

JAHpowBruh you should've seen Haiti. I was there two years ago on a missions trip and it's like you say but even more with the earthquake they were hit with. Crumbled buildings, stairways standing by themselves going up into empty air, and don't even call the road you're walking on a "road". And I was there three years after the quake. It's the most humbling experience I have ever had. To explain the conditions that Haitians live in would be impossible.

If you live in a first world country, be thankful.

SFByeah man those evil christians going out to convert those vulnerable people, not like they are giving aid to those people and building houses. man i hate those evil christians.

DingoSeanNick knows all about haiti. He once crowdfunded earthquake aid to haiti while he was soloing the PCT.

Lord_Byronmy entire family is from haiti lol.

And we're damn proud we're the only nation built by slaves.

DingoSeanWasn't Liberia founded by former slaves?

Lord_Byronno, it was founded by white people. For former slaves. Of every African nationality. Many were rivals.

Real success story right there.