Gerry wrote:

> In article <dUnMb.5146$VS4.171407@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
> ifignow <ifignow@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>No more J-pop blaring from speakers everywhere,
> 
> Ah sweet relaxation--endless hip-hop blaring from speakers everywhere.

Worse: Britney Spears, Christina Agguelera and all the other American
Pop singers.  Or Adult Contemporary when you're put on hold.

>>no fishy-smelling hair tonic.
> 
> Hey! Nobody *made* you whear that fish-sauce. And you wondered why all
> the women rejected you.

It was his "short comings".

>>I feel like a real person again.
> 
> See how delusional being the USA can make you?

As a Canadian, no comment. :-)

>>How do people live in that hovel called Japan??
> 
> Since you're back in the USA I guess you can turn your myopic eye back
> to the simple pleasures: hating a local ethnic group or religion now... 
> But you can always remember the trying days of having a confusing new
> culture to hate.

"You know, before Americans are allowed to travel overseas, they should
first visit Canada.  If they do OK here, then maybe let them travel to,
say, England."
-- Stand-up comic at the Just for Laughs Festival