In Australia, the freeway between Melbourne and Sydney is 800km long but has a relatively low speed limit of 110km/h. Do Australians really enjoy driving this slowly when they have 800km to cover?
As an American who has lived here for 24 years- yes the speed limits are slow, and no, I don’t think ANYONE “enjoys” driving at the slow speeds…
Trump has an absolutely abysmal business career. Why do some people think of him as some business genius?
John Wayne. John Wayne explains it, and is maybe the best example. There were Hollywood actors who were actual war heroes. John Wayne wasn’t one of them. In…
Do Yakuza mess with foreigners?
If you are just a visiting foreigner, you’d probably need to mess with them in a serious way. I don’t claim to be any expert on it, but…
What is a cardinal sin in a fine dining restaurant?
I took my mother 70 year old mother to Las Vegas. We dined at an Italian restaurant. The server was snobbish and borderline rude to us and other…
How long will Americans put up with Trump’s jackboot on their necks before they overthrow him? What we are seeing now is not the America any of us grew up in.
There’s something I see at the grocery store every so often that just knocks me out. In the potato chips aisle, there are rows of cheese dip in…
What should you never say at the US-Canada border?
I got myself into long-term trouble. Maybe this story can help someone avoid shady border officers’ tactics at the border. I did some contract design work for an…
Will people in the EU and Canada really stop buying American goods because of the tariffs?
My son works for a company that sells pumps. These are high end pumps. When Trump first announced the tariffs he received a call from a supplier in…
If I tell you I voted for Trump, what do you think I support? Be brutally honest.
My uncle has an IQ of about 65. He “graduated” high school, aka social promotion. He has immersed himself in Fox News and Rush Limbaugh for 25 years….
Trump said we don’t need Canada’s lumber. So a good incentive and subsidy to compete against the highly subsidized Canadian lumber industry for home construction is needed. What would Canadians do when they have no one to export their timber to?
Why would the U.S. need Canadian lumber in the first place ?? Well, here’s what old “Yellow Hair” over at the WH didn’t tell you. Most American home…
You wake up and it’s 1984. No WiFi, no smartphones. What is the first thing you do?
1984? Easy answer. I get on the first plane to California and look up a man named Ronald Wayne in the phone book. I go straight to his…