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I'm American, and unafraid of nudity. I shower most mornings, naked, with other people at my gym. Sometimes I go to the nude beach on Assateague Island, over in Maryland. I've been naked, with many other Americans, on Fire Island. I watch American movies depicting nudity. I have sex, naked usually, with another American. This one is like "French people stink of garlic" or "Spanish people eat lots of tacos." - harmless stereotypes held by unsophisticated people.
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Ratzap posted:The topic is something most Europeans and Brits recognise if they visit the US. A film in the US that showed as much skin as say a Danish TV advert would be a 16 or 18 rating. By the same token though a film with a level of violence or gunplay that americans feel ok for children would get the 16 or 18 cert over here. I don't recognize any terror. Sure, continental European TV has more nudity than American or Canadian TV, both of which show far more skin than Egyptian or Thai or Chilean TV. No terror of nudity though.
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Sep 25, 2016 20:03
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Bip Roberts posted:I don't think making sweet tea supersaturated with sugar is a relic of the agrarian past. Nor is using butter and bacon fat as staple ingredients.
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Sep 25, 2016 22:38
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Thesaurasaurus posted:I'm saying that what we think of when we discuss "Southern Cuisine" usually means dishes that originated as white planter comfort foods (biscuits, gravy, fried chicken, pork and related meats, BBQ, cane sugar, high-fat dairy products, etc) but which became far more available and widespread with the advent of industrialized farming. A more-comprehensive definition would include greens, beans, rice, corn, catfish and crawfish, fruits and nuts, and so forth. I think suburban lifestyle and especially suburban urban planning have a lot to do with it too. Australia recently passed the US in prevalence of obesity, and Australia is also a largely suburban nation. Most suburbs are designed for cars, not people. I spent a couple of months in a Dallas suburb last year for work - they didn't even have sidewalks there. People would look at you like you're crazy if you were walking anywhere.
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Sep 25, 2016 23:34
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spacetoaster posted:A lot of the places in the U.S. are so spread out. If you try and walk to a place you better plan for that to be the only place you go that day. Sprawl is really a function of the age of a city. Most cities that became true urban areas after 1900 or so sprawl all over the place. Johannesburg makes Houston look like a compact and well-planned city, for example.
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Sep 26, 2016 16:35
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Panfilo posted:I think the US military is a bit too rapey for that to work here. I admire your edgy stance. It's, like, rad.
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Sep 27, 2016 12:35
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Cicero posted:Being a physically large country gives us the option of sprawling out. It doesn't force us to do that. For example, as pointed out earlier, US cities that got built out prior to cars becoming common tend to be much more walkable. Really, being a big country has more of an obvious impact on the distance between metros, rather than how dense each metro or principal city is. There's also the American Dream that requires having a green lawn big enough for a golf course.
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Sep 27, 2016 15:59
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:pubes nothing, there is whole areas of the body that men are so unaware that women shave that they think a women is somehow sick if she has hair there. Like not morally "sick", physically ill. For example?
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